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Wa Na Wari s Walk the Block is back for its third year, showcasing excellent Black art, film, music and dance all in one day in Seattle s Central District.
Editors Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Talk With Jordan Casteel to Rashid Johnson at Storm King
Plus, check out a sexual justice symposium at the New School and an NFT art fair with an enormously long and complicated name.
Ayana Evans from Crowning Series (2019). Photo courtesy of the New School.
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)
03.09.21
Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. Photographs by Sunny Leerasanthanah and Jasmine Durhal. Pictured: David Antonio Cruz, Gabriella Sanchez, Jasmin Hernandez, and Firelei Báez. Book cover courtesy of Abrams.
The art world often represents some of the most elitist and exclusionary cultural gatekeeping in today’s society, and a pervasive, pernicious lack of diversity might lead many to think that Black and Brown creatives simply don’t exist in such spaces. However, despite being massively underrepresented, many Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) individuals aren’t just working in the art world they’ve found their own radical ways to thrive in it. These are exactly the people that Jasmin Hernandez highlights in her stunning new book,