‘Monumental Tour’ for Black empowerment: An interview with Marsha Reid
In an interview with The Daily Californian, Marsha Reid, the director of Kindred Arts, discussed what it’s like to go on tour with three statues.
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Hyperrealist oil painter Greg Haynes showcases astounding technique, but limited meaning, in Maybaum Gallery’s “Mirror Effect”
“Mirror Effect” rests upon seductive combinations of glass, light and negative space — suggestive of a state in which everything is fluid and all views are unobstructed.
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The camera as a false shield: Janine Wiedel on photographing 1969 People’s Park protests
In an email interview with The Daily Californian, Wiedel recalled the events of the 1969 protests in People’s Park, now more than fifty years ago.
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Lee Daniels brings Lady Day to court, to screen in ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’
From the opening credits, Daniels’ film demands a diegetic performance of the standard, a vocalization of the unusual bond between singer and song that drives the entire narrative forward. And Day delivers.
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Late poet Lucille Clifton still speaks to the COVID era
Clifton’s writing on illness and medical treatment is sharp, critical and socially engaged, but it also reflects something deeper. Perhaps we can call it self-love.
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Gianfranco Rosi’s ‘Notturno’ captures war zone imagery through a troubled gaze
Rosi shows his subjects in moments of extreme vulnerability, bringing his camera into spaces of profound loss.
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‘One Night in Miami’ is cinematic triumph for director Regina King, screenwriter Kemp Powers
“One Night in Miami” is a spectacular debut for King and should put her, Powers and Ben-Adir on track for further triumph at the 93rd Academy Awards.
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Demography as poetry: Nathalie Khankan’s ‘Quiet Orient Riot’ astounds with shattering, shimmering lyricality
The poems of this collection talk to each other, like neighbors carrying on a conversation through open, opposite-facing windows across the street.
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Quilts as a drive-in movie: An interview with BAMPFA’s Elaine Yau on Eli Leon’s collection of African American quilts
“These artists and their practice are an invitation to rethink aesthetic hierarchies at the center (of mainstream art) and to expand the borders of how art history has typically been run,” she said.
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Billie Eilish curates dynamic stage presence in a time without stages
“Where Do We Go?” presented an arresting technological display that made the event more than just a privatized concertgoing experience.
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