A Makeshift Forest Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Imperialism

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, collages by writer Langston Hughes, a game show museum, and the ghosts of imp

Jun 21, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️Today, collages by writer Langston Hughes, a game show museum, and the ghosts of imperialism in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Ashley Bryan, "Seascape" from Sail Away 2015, recto (Photography by Janny Chiu, 2021)

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Collages inspired by Langston Hughes’ poems have been acquired by Morgan Library, marking the Morgan’s first major acquisition of work by a Black children’s author and illustrator. Amazon stakeholder MacKenzie Scott distributes $2.7B to 286 arts organizations, including El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan, Laundromat Project in Brooklyn, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The Strong National Museum of Play introduces the world’s first game show archive.

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In Manhattan, a Makeshift Forest Is Haunted by the Ghosts of Imperialism The location of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest next to the Flatiron building evokes for me, a Filipina American, the legacy of the architect Daniel Burnham. Vina Orden

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