A Show About the Great Migration Strikes a Timely Chord

June 22, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌧️ Today, Documenta's curators keep getting into trouble, protesters at the British Museum want to see the Parthenon Marbles returned to Greece, new public artworks add some warmth to NYC's Penn Station, and more.
I also recommend reading Seph Rodney's review of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Olivia McEwan's review of Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945–1965 at the Barbican in London, and Dan Schindel's mini-review of Bitterbrush, a documentary that follows two cattlewomen in Idaho.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

A Show About the Great Migration Strikes a Timely Chord

At a moment when the future of this country seems precarious and uncertain, A Movement in Every Direction demonstrates that Black Americans have been among this nation’s most stalwart heroes. | Seph Rodney

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