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Guest Editor Chae's Note: What happens when an art project steeped in traditions and social engagement with one culture transports itself into other communities and cultu…
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In Rico Gatson’s exhibition “The Promise of Light,” the artist…
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Guest Editor Chae's Note: iona ROZEAL brown is an internationally-renowned artist whose rich, vibrant paintings fuse motifs from contemporary American hip-hop, break-dancing and vogueing with traditional Japanese theater forms of Kabuki and Noh. Her art combines painting, DJ'ing, dance, theater and performance, and her mixing and synchronizing of East & West, new & old and cool &…
British Dude (court subject): Guess you’re going to be hungry sailing across that big ocean trying to get away from this bullshit… Here, take some salty meat and white flour with zero nutritional value with you!British Dude (court defector): Word. Guess I don’t know any better since I learned to eat so poorly with you. U.S. Representative (slave master): Guess you’re hungr…
Adelina Anthony in conversation with Marisa Becerra and nancy Chargualaf martin Feature Photo Caption: Yoli (Rosa Barron) and her mother (Karla Legaspy) share a tense moment in their fraught relationship. Photo credit: nancy Chargualaf martin ******************************************************* Last summer, Marisa Becerra and I endeavored to establish a small progressive indep…
A lot of things have happened in the intervening years since 1989 when the always brilliant and idiosyncratic Guillermo Gómez-Peña (widely known as GGP) published "an open letter to the national arts community" under the heading "The Multicultural Paradigm." The opening lines read: "It's 1989 in this troubled continent accidentally called America. A major paradigm shift is taking…
I recently had the great pleasure of traveling to Wilmington, NC to experience the Cucalorus Film Festival for the first time. Started in 1994 by the filmmaking collective, Twinkle Doom, and led today by Dan Brawley and his band of merry artists, this annual event is unique in the field of film festivals. [caption id="attachment_1334" align="aligncenter" width="447"] Cucalorus Executive…
Arts in a Changing America is gaining recognition in the art world. A big thank you to Createquity for recognizing Roberto Bedoya's article as a "Big Idea!"