Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former editor for Hyperallergic, and is now a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and the New York Times. He received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism in 2020 and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2022.
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In Black Pulp! at the International Print Center New York, artists and co-curators William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson connect the literary genre of pulp with one of its most powerful vehicles: the story of blackness in the United States.
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Eugene Richards's Below the Line: Living Poor in America isn't about sympathy but something more.
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The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute just reopened in a landmark building that was once a firehouse at 120 East 125th Street, right in between the atria and ventricles at the heart of East Harlem.
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Carrie Mae Weems has brought the play's undying themes to new life with her work Past Tense, which combines song, text, reading, and projected video.
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There is something about a line that is eternal, not because we wish it so, but rather because in separating the light from the dark, we make a passage through all the sundry reasons to lie still and accept what you have been given.
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In Gary Simmons' newest work, he uses the names of silent screen actors of color and renders them in white paint, bleeding down against a black background like stigmata that suddenly appeared by divine intervention on the gallery’s walls.
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In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
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Through a combination of light and sound, for a few moments at least, the work can strip you of all the typical assurances of selfhood.
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A new wave of art galleries are starting to move up uptown from Chelsea and lower Manhattan, and it is time to ask serious questions about their impact and what we can do to guarantee Harlem survives culturally.
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Work becomes play in Peter Liversidge’s Twofold installation, though its proposals read so formally: “I propose to drop two hundred and fifty thousand 1 cent coins on the floor of the main gallery space.”
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Alma Thomas was the sole black female artist in what became known as the Washington Color School, and the current exhibition reveals some of the complexity of her art.
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Nidaa Badwan’s 100 Days of Solitude explores the refuge she found in her 100-square-foot room in Gaza during the course of 20 months.