When artist and art historian David Driskell brought his groundbreaking "Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750-1950" exhibition to a series of museums in 1976 and 1977, some people thought
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When artist and art historian David Driskell brought his groundbreaking “Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750-1950 exhibition to a series of museums in 1976 and 1977, some people thought that more than 200 works by 63 artists (and some anonymous crafts workers) was too much of a good thing. Driskell did not agree.
“I was not looking for a unified theme,” Driskell told The New York Times in a 1977 interview. “And this, of course, usually upsets the critics because they want to see a continuous kind of thing.”
When you are trying to right the exclusionary wrongs of history, less is never going to be more. That was true for Driskell, and it is true for “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” a new HBO documentary that uses Driskell and his landmark exhibition as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging, densely populated look at the past, present and future of Black art and artists in America.
Lazarus Lynch s 2019 debut cookbook Son of a Southern Chef is another must-have, especially if you re looking for what the newest generation of Black chefs is up to in the kitchen.
Bryant Terry, a well-known chef who specializes in vegan and vegetarian cooking, published his latest stunner, Vegetable Kingdom, in early 2020.
Nicole Taylor became known in the food world for her Heritage Radio Network show, Hot Grease. Her 2015 book, The Up South Cookbook, makes it easy to understand why her Southern-Brooklyn spin on food was a hit with listeners. Great British Baking Show fan favorite Benjamina Ebuehi impressed cookbook reviewers with her debut book, The New Way to Cake, which came out in 2019.
Local libraries offer wide range of DVD, streaming options
The Daily Telegram
ADRIAN When Family Video announced it would close all its stores last month, it dealt one more blow to the video rental industry and those who still rent hard copies of movies.
Local libraries could find themselves filling this void.
Librarians say it s too early to tell if the end of Family Video will result in more people checking out movies from libraries. However, library DVD rentals are already popular.
DVDs accounted for 26% of total circulated items last year at the Adrian District Library. In 2019, that number was even higher at 29%.