Happy Wednesday. We’re trying some new things with our newsletter this week, as a way of bringing you
| Happy Wednesday. We’re trying some new things with our newsletter this week, as a way of bringing you (our beloved readers) more insights into the stories we care about most. Today’s focus: museums! — Dessane Lopez Cassell, Reviews Editor | |
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| NYC Museums Reopen Next Week |
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| New York City Under Quarantine |
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| Shellyne Rodriguez’s Drawings Expand the Definition of “Essential Workers” |
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| | Shellyne Rodriguez, “Hillary Paints a Banner” (2020), colored pencil on paper, 14 x 19 inches. |
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| Artist Shellyne Rodriguez began creating this body of work after she helped organize FTP3 — “the third in a series of actions protesting police intervention in the city’s subway system, led by activist groups Take Back the Bronx, Decolonize This Place (DTP), Why Accountability, and others.”As Rodriguez explains,“For me, it was an opportunity to archive. And there was this sense of urgency to make as much as I could before I was pulled into the street again […] ‘Hilary paints a Banner’ was just thinking about the labor that went into all of the ruckus we caused in New York.” |
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| Commemorating the 19th Amendment |
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| Looking for some end of summer reading? Check out this list of essential feminist texts from the New York Public Library, published in honor of the recent 19th Amendment centennial. While not all women actually gained the right to vote after its passage — Black women had to wait another 50 years, cause of course, racism — the NYPL list acknowledges “the shortcomings of the feminist movement and celebrates those who contributed to its diversity”. |
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| Brown Girls Doc Mafia, a collective of over 4,000 BIPOC women and nonbinary documentary film professionals has launched a searchable directory.Founded by Bronx resident Iyabo Boyd, who is a filmmaker herself, the directory currently features 228 directors, writers, producers, programmers, and more, including many in New York, and is a clever, practical rebuke to the “excuse many gatekeepers use of ‘not knowing how to find’ quality filmmakers or executives of color.”For more on this topic, I’d also recommend revisiting Miasarah Lai’s powerhouse of an op-ed on the need for documentarians of color to tell their own stories.“Many nonfiction organizations have put out emails and social media posts claiming they stand in solidarity with Black lives. But how will they move beyond optical allyship to center and support Black professionals?” |
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