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Alison Kinney

Alison Kinney is the author of Hood (Bloomsbury, 2016). Her writing has appeared previously in Hyperallergic and online at The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, The New York Times, and New Republic. Twitter: @Alison_Kinney

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Tracing Imaginary Lines and Fluid Borders in the Midst of a Migrant Crisis

by Alison Kinney May 18, 2016May 17, 2016

PARIS — Just outside the gates of the National Museum of the History of Immigration, an enormous, dreamy-faced, freestyle swimmer surges from the ground.

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As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera

by Alison Kinney August 3, 2015August 10, 2015

Inevitably, the history of Black American opera chronicles not just perseverance and accomplishment, but also racism and exclusion.

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Philistine, or What Happens When You Break a Sculpture in a Gallery

by Alison Kinney September 1, 2014September 7, 2014

“Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting,” someone famously quipped once — maybe Ad Reinhardt or Barnett Newman.

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