June 11, 2020
A Toppled Statue In Bristol Reveals Limited Understandings of What Decolonizing Requires
Protesters’ removal of Edward Colston’s statue didn’t attack history; instead it corrected how we write it.
Aditya Iyer
A POC-Centered Vision of NYC From NK Jemisin, Celebrated Sci-Fi Author
Jemisin will join comedian W. Kamau Bell for a discussion of sci-fi, Afrofuturism, and her most recent novel, which brings her unique brand of speculative fiction a little closer to earth.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
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An Reading Essential List for Black Liberation, Brought to You by the Schomburg Center
To mark its 95th anniversary, the center’s staff and curators chose 95 books by Black authors, including titles by James Baldwin, Saidiya Hartman, Jesmyn Ward, Deborah Willis, and Colson Whitehead.
2020 ArtPrize Exhibition Canceled Over COVID-19 Concerns
Concerns over the difficulty of travel, low attendance, and gathering restrictions prompted the decision to cancel one of the largest public art events in the US.
SFMOMA Announces Second Wave of Layoffs, Impacting 55 Additional Workers
This follows March’s announcement that the museum would lay off 131 on-call (contracted or freelance) employees and furlough around 200 regular staffers.
Toppled and Defaced Racist Monuments in 15 Cities, From Richmond to Bristol
Worldwide, demonstrations protesting anti-Blackness gain steam, and people have torn down and graffitied monuments to Confederate leaders and imperialist figureheads.
How Hilma af Klint Was Written Out of History
The new documentary Beyond the Visible is more of a detective story than a straightforward biography, investigating the erasure of an important figure in abstract art.
Elizabeth Horkley
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Noah Lawrence-Holder Is “Working to Abolish the Police, the Way Marsha P. Johnson Intended!”
Noah Lawrence-Holder is a black, non-binary artist from Madison WI, now based in the Twin Cities.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
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