Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration

May 16, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌧️ Today, an exhibition at the Noguchi Museum in New York commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Japanese American incarceration, the Ford and Mellon Foundations give $50k grants to 15 Latinx artists, and a dinosaur skeleton sells for $12.4 million at a Christie's auction, pissing off paleontologists and anyone with common sense.

That and a lot more, including a conversation with dream hampton, the creator of the docu-series Surviving R. Kelly, about her new short film Freshwater, which explores flooded basements in Detroit.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

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An installation shot of Kay Sekimachi's "Ogawa II" at the Noguchi Museum (photo by Nicholas Knight and courtesy Noguchi Museum)

An exhibition at the Noguchi Museum marks the 80th anniversary of the executive order that forced Japanese Americans into detention camps.

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