10 Books by Black Authors That Will Expand Your Worldview By Amanda Wowk • February 16, 2021 • Travel Tips
These 10 books written by Black authors conjure a strong sense of place, celebrate Black voices, and help readers better understand the Black experience. You’ll travel across countries, continents, and time and expand your worldview in the process.
1. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Winner of the Booker Prize, Girl, Woman, Other captures the complexities of what it means to be a Black woman in modern-day Britain, while masterfully peeling back the curtain on Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
London-based, Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo is the author of eight books ranging in genre from poetry to short story to drama to criticism. She is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
“Do you think we’ll ever use unpaid interns?” a friend once asked while we were being used as unpaid interns. It was 2011, in the thick of the long slog of the Great Recession, and we were both working for no pay at different book publishers in one of the most expensive cities in the United States. A few months later, an encampment started in Manhattan’s financial district to protest runaway economic inequality, student debt, and the unfettered greed of Wall Street; sometimes we joined the marches or went to reading groups where we struggled through the first volume of
Shulamit Nazarian presents a series of new paintings by New York-based artist Michael Stamm
Installation view.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Shulamit Nazarian is presenting so super sorry sir!, a series of new paintings by New York-based artist Michael Stamm. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The paintings in so super sorry sir! revel in their idiosyncratic, contradictory attitude toward morality, sexuality, mental health, and contemporary cultural politics. They feature an unlikely cast of charactersranging from the Devil to an anthropomorphic hand whose disparate senses of virtue and spirituality often clash with societal convention. At once clinging to life and hurtling toward annihilation, the artist questions what self-actualization looks like in the face of an overly righteous and emotionally precarious world.
Every June, New York Mayor
Bill de Blasio s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) holds New York Music Month, with performances, panels and networking events across all five boroughs. But given the way the coronavirus pandemic has wrought havoc on the live music scene, and the fact that this year s program would need to be virtual, It didn t make sense to wait until June, MOME commissioner
Anne del Castillo tells
Billboard. There are so many people in the industry and fans who need support now.
In response, the MOME is launching New York Music Month Extended Play (NYMMEP), a six-month, supersized virtual edition of the annual program kicking off today, Jan. 11, and wrapping on June 30. The evolving program so far includes more than 40 free online events designed to keep alive New York s music community, del Castillo says, and equip community members with the skills and resources to weather the ongoing pandemic.
December 31, 2020 11:30 am
Shari Urquhart,
Wedding Portrait (J. Van Eyck), 1998, Persian wool, mohair, metallic acrylic & silk fibers, 79.5 x 67.75 inches
Lamentable deaths occur every year, but in 2020 Covid-19 has made for an especially grim atmosphere of loss. In the art world, painter Jackie Saccoccio and art historian Barbara Rose are the most recent to be mourned across social media and in thoughtful obituaries in the New York Times
. Artnet has compiled a list of other notable art figures who have passed away, including Beverly Pepper, Emily Mason, William Bailey, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Susan Rothenberg, Ron Gorchov, and Luchita Hurtado. ArtForum
‘s list includes Ulay, John Baldessari, Christo, Suh Se-ok, and May Stevens. At artcritical