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Arts This Week: South Asian Art, A Parallel Road and Nomadland Maqbool Fida Husain, Untitled, 1986. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2003. E301288. Estate of Maqbool Fida Husain Jeffrey R. Dykes, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum Arts This Week | February 18, 2021 This week, Jared Bowen takes us through the new, permanent galleries of South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. Plus, a look at photographer Amani Willett’s book A Parallel Road and a rev...

Picturing the all-American road trip (and its many hazards) for Black drivers By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated December 30, 2020, 2:00 p.m. Email to a Friend MassArt professor Amani Willett interspersed family snapshots with archival news photography for his new book, "A Parallel Road."Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff Photographer Amani Willett was documenting former stops on the Underground Railroad when the link to the past hit him. Black Americans still travel almost like fugitives, co...