PARIS — Just outside the gates of the National Museum of the History of Immigration, an enormous, dreamy-faced, freestyle swimmer surges from the ground.
Author Archives: 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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As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera
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
“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.