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As the final installment of the “Women, Arts and Social Change” program hosted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in its 2023-2024 season, the museum invited Schwanda Rountree and Myrtis Bedolla to speak at an event titled “Fresh Talk: Influence and Collecting.” The event discussed the progress and challenges faced by women and non-binary people in the art industry, specifically in curating and collecting.
“It’s certainly important to have these conversations in real life. But in real life, either emotions take over or, at the other extreme, people are too careful to really address the issues. There’s certainly a lot of anger expressed in The Niceties, but, for the most part, the characters stay on point,” says director Kevin O’Connell.
An event review of author David Brook’s new book release, How to Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, the National Archives and Records Administration held a screening of The March and a panel discussion on August 25, 2023.
Stacey Abrams spoke to a packed house at Sixth & I, last week, about her new legal thriller, Rogue Justice; the follow-up to 2021’s While Justice Sleeps.
Borum’s book illustrates how comedy can change minds by breaking down barriers between people. When it includes more perspectives, comedy elevates marginalized voices and brings social issues to life.
he Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) opened its latest exhibition, “Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.,” in its newly redesigned Visual Art and the American Experience gallery on September 10th, 2021
A teach-in aimed to help DC-based activists connect with the Palestinian struggle
“The closest and most intimate piece of me is my Muslim identity,” she said. “My written pieces open and knock on different doors in my mind and on different layers of the self.”
Today, we share books of fiction and poetry written by Black authors. We’re inspired by the #BlackoutBestsellerlist movement, which aims to flood the bestseller lists with books by Black authors. (Your homework: Buy two books by Black authors. And buy them from a local, independent bookstore.)
“I think poetry is more relevant today than, perhaps, it's ever been,” Courtney told me. “We have so much going on in the world. I think it allows people an outlet, a way to express themselves…”
To meet Gene Bruskin is to meet a titan of the labor movement. Talking with him opens up a world that most history books barely broach. A tall, burly man with a booming voice, wispy gray hair and a constant cough that interrupts just about every other sentence, Bruskin is the embodiment of what it means to be a grassroots labor organizer.
Shipwreck, which starts out as a conventional drama about a group of old friends gathering together for a weekend, meanders its way from the mundane to the surreal. It wanders deliberately and just as deliberately leaves the viewer with more questions than answers.
When I asked the author why collaboration with other artists is so important to him, he told me, “It’s what feeds me, what keeps me alive.”
The Havel Project reminds us that the stubborn determination of the individual can undermine totalitarian systems, and that revolutions can be born of childlike imagination and whimsical fun.
At a time when only bad news headlines our nation’s immigrant story, it’s good to hear something positive.
This is what Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer | Sackler Gallery commented when asked about the American media’s portrayal of the exhibit, My Iran: Six Women Photographers, currently on view at the gallery.
Still vocally vibrant and pushing artistic boundaries, Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble performed her piece Cellular Songs at the Rasmusen Theater located in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC.
Thai artist, Rirkrit Tiravanija’s first ever exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green, brings people together amid political images of violence and protest.
Inshallah. The Arabic word means “God willing,” and reflects surrender to what we cannot control and what divine fate ordains. We hear it often working with refugees seeking sanctuary in Greece.
Driving up the lush, tree-lined road leading to Alison Friedman’s house, I arrive at this much-anticipated interview.
March is Women’s History Month, and in solidarity, the Melrose Georgetown Hotel is joining the fight for women’s equality in the workplace.
It’s hard to believe that just a few neighborhoods down from the White House are communities that are struggling against hunger. “Food hardship” and “food insecurity” are terms that unfortunately describe too many households in the district.
Your work to inspire global and local action against modern slavery goes back many years.
The dictionary defines the word miscegenation as a marriage or the cohabitation and all that it encompasses (sexual relations, and/or procreation) between two people of different racial groups.
Women hanging handkerchiefs on barbwire.
DC isn’t short of smart, innovating, entrepreneurial women and Monica Gray and Annie Medaglia are just that.
I spent the Sunday before Mother’s Day (May 5) at the third annual Mother’s Day Climate Rally, which I helped organize and was co-sponsored by 21 different local groups.