Look and Listen #34: Titus Underwood, Nashville Symphony
Titus Underwood is the Principal Oboe for the Nashville Symphony. You might assume that, as an artist with a highly educated and elite ensemble like a symphony, he wouldn’t encounter …
Look and Listen #23: The art of Wangechi Mutu
Today’s focus is on Kenyan multimedia artist Wangechi Mutu. I remember being completely captivated by her film installation, The End of Eating Everything, when it was on view at the …
Look and Listen #16: Kerry James Marshall
American painter Kerry James Marshall talks about his strategy to raise his aesthetic into mainstream art, to paint the things he values in the world. What we focus on as …
Look and Listen #12: Maya Angelou, We Wear the Mask
In honor of Juneteenth, Maya Angelou’s poem, “We Wear the Mask.” She was a masterful reader, dancing on the edge of emotion. May we all learn how to listen and …
Look and Listen #8: Looking back at Kara Walker’s Subtlety via Art21
Subtlety was a marvelous sculpture made by Kara Walker for the Domino Sugar Factory, a place dripping with the residue of productivity, a productivity built on the backs of African …
Quote for Today: Brittney Morris
As we duel, as we chat, there’s an understanding that “your black is not my black” and “your weird is not my weird” and “your beautiful is not my beautiful,” …
Quote for Today: Akala
Racist insults leave you feeling dirty because, even at five years old, we already know on some level that, in this society at least, we are indeed lesser citizens with …
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white …
Look and Listen #3: Embers of Bloom by Daniel Obasi
Daniel Obasi is a Nigerian art director, fashion stylist, photographer and filmmaker who is “deeply concerned with advancing the scope of African narratives”. This is Embers of Bloom, a beautiful look …
Quote for Today: Ta-Nehisi Coates
As for now, it must be said that the process of washing the disparate tribes white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings …