Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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Battleground
Read more: BattlegroundThe opening lines of this week’s Staff Pick Premiere, “Battleground,” by Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone examine how skin color has become just that…a battleground. The short captures the particular discomfort of having to argue for one’s value in a…
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Lipstick Handprint
Read more: Lipstick HandprintAuli’i Cravalho Makes Powerful Statement in Support of Missing Indigenous Women with Lipstick Handprint “I felt like I had to put my money where my mouth was,” the actress said on the red carpet at the Power premiere By Michelle…
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Pan American Unity
Read more: Pan American UnityThe Stanford Daily: There is no word short of “spectacular” that better describes the experience of examining “Pan American Unity,” Diego Rivera’s 1940 mural, housed since 2021 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The piece is the…
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Say No to “Yellow Fever”
Read more: Say No to “Yellow Fever”New York artist Donna Choi wanted to create a “weird, memorable way” to discuss fetishization of Asian women, so she put together a satirical series about how to diagnose Yellow Fever—the specific obsession many Western men have with Asian culture.…
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Buffalo 5/14 Survivors Fund
Read more: Buffalo 5/14 Survivors FundOn May 14, 2022, the Buffalo community suffered a devastating act of violence when a gunman opened fire at the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue, killing ten people and wounding three. Many have asked how to help. In partnership…
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‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own Words
Read more: ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own WordsIn Louis Armstrong’s study in the Queens home he shared with his fourth wife, Lucille, bookshelves were filled with reel-to-reel recordings he made as a sort of audio diary. Those tapes and his letters — read by the rapper Nas…
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Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’
Read more: Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’Jameela Jamil has opened up about how she’s “not here to be liked” in a frank new interview with Meghan Markle. In the latest episode of Archetypes, Meghan’s Spotify podcast, the Duchess speaks with both Jamil and Shohreh Aghdashloo about…
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Destruction of the National Front
Read more: Destruction of the National FrontTATE: Destruction of the National Front by the artist Eddie Chambers is a collage on four panels depicting the deconstruction of an image of the Union flag shaped as a swastika. For the first panel in the sequence, the artist…
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The Problem We All Live With
Read more: The Problem We All Live WithThe Norman Rockwell Museum is very unique. It attracts people of all ages from all around the world to visit. I’ve heard adults saying “I remember selling that copy of The Post door to door!” or seen children’s excited faces…
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“We stand in solidarity”-Asian American Artist Confront Racism
Read more: “We stand in solidarity”-Asian American Artist Confront RacismUnleashed by anxiety over the pandemic, the nationwide rise in anti-Asian hate has served as a call to action for many Asian American artists to take a stand: To actively challenge the historic negative stereotype of the vice- and disease-ridden…