Joy and anger in balance: The art of Lorraine O Grady
A photo provided by Brooklyn Museum; Jonathan Dorado shows installation view, Lorraine O Grady: Both/And, with a video of her mixed-race hair, between landscapes by Frederic Church and Thomas Cole, fifth floor, Brooklyn Museum in New York. A survey at the museum radiates high outrage even as it finds beauty and strength in a range of identities. Brooklyn Museum; Jonathan Dorado via The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
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.- Back in the 1960s, some of us were taking drugs, scrambling genders and sampling global religions to shake ourselves loose from what we saw as Western-style binary thinking, a view of the world based on strictly held good-bad, right-wrong opposites: white versus Black, straight versus gay, us versus them. Five decades later, such thinking still rules in a red-blue nation, which makes the retrospective of Lorraine OGradys career at the Brooklyn Museum a major corrective event.
By Roger Clark Manhattan
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When you first gaze upon the paintings of Artist Daryl Myntia Daniels, you are immediately drawn in by the vibrant colors. The artist says she was inspired by the sun. At one point in my life, I kind of hid away from the sun, because I was ashamed of my dark skin, and so I really wanted to just celebrate the sun and use that as a solar power to fully charge this energy,” said Myntia Daniels, who is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts.
Women-owned restaurants in MoHi
With hints of springtime in the air, the weather is perfect for taking a leisurely stroll for lunch to a local restaurant. To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, why not visit some female-owned restaurants in or around Morningside Heights? Check out Spectrum’s local guide for a number of women-owned food spots near campus.
Belle Harlem 2363 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.
Owners Darryl and Melissa Burnette strive to make Belle Harlem “feel as though you were in someone’s kitchen.” With the onset of COVID-19, this usually 12-seat à la carte New American restaurant is opening outdoor dining with double its current capacity on March 12. Make sure to reserve a table in advance!
Richard Prideaux, a 1960s force for racial equality on Staten Island, dies. He was 94.
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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“We shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome some day …”
Only 7 years old that afternoon in 1963, Barbara Prideaux was one of the youngest among those gathered at the corner of Castleton and Richmond avenues. But she was old enough to know it was wrong for the shop owner to prohibit a Black woman from trying on a dress.
Richard with daughter Barbara in 2019
Barbara often joined the protests organized by her father, Richard Prideaux, a gentle giant of a man who was one of Staten Island’s first, and few, Black civil rights leaders at a time when it mattered most. His personal experiences of discrimination and segregation were the catalysts for a lifetime of peaceful activism.
Exhibition showcases the talents of four Harlem-based photographers
Shawn W. Walker, Misterioso, 2015. Archival Digital Pigment Print, 15 x 19 x inches | 38 x 48 x cm.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Claire Oliver Gallery is presenting Love Letters for Harlem an exhibition of photographs by John Pinderhughes, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Jeffrey Henson Scales and Shawn Walker. Love Letters for Harlem showcases the talents of these four Harlem-based photographers and their work that celebrates the lives and culture of Harlem. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Harlem Community Relief Fund, an initiative of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC), who in concert with Harlem Week, ReThink Food NY, NY State Assemblywoman Inez Dickens, CCNY, NAACP are working together to combat food insecurity in Harlem. The exhibition will be on view by appointment February 22 April 3, 2021.