Park Avenue Armory appoints Tavia Nyong o Curator of Public Programming artdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
February 25, 2021
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Tavia Nyong’o
Tavia Nyong’o, the newly appointed William Lampson Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Professor of African American Studies, works on historical and contemporary approaches to Black performance. His appointment was effective January 1.
A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, his current research, teaching, and advising focuses on the longue durée of speculation as it relates to Black lives. This includes courses on speculative fiction and performance, critical theories of speculative realism, and studies of Black affect and aesthetics. His work asks how objects of speculation become subjects of speculation in the long afterlives of slavery, and sees Black dissidence in gender and sexuality as a crucial part of how this story must be told.
RuPaul and Other Drag Pioneers Come to Life in Stunning New Photo Book Linda Simpson s The Drag Explosion captures the hunty icons of New York City s drag scene in the 80s and 90s.
Before RuPaul became a household name, she was a fixture of New York City’s downtown drag scene during the 1980s and ‘90s, appearing at Wigstock and East Village clubs like Pyramid. Linda Simpson the alter ego of writer and former
Time Out New York editor Les Simpson was there, documenting it through thousands of photos snapped with a 35mm point-and-shoot camera and her outrageous