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All works of art pictured in this article are available for viewing in the exhibition. On Sunday, April 10 of this year, Washington’s National Gallery of Art opened the touring Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition to the viewing public. The six-part showing, which originally opened in 2018 as Histórias Afro-Atlânticas at Brazil’s Museu de Arte de São […]
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Tyler, the Creator has always been a trendsetter. From his provocative beginnings as the eccentric, foul-mouthed musical backbone of the Odd Future collective to his unstoppable run of one mixtape and six albums in only twelve years – in which he’s won two Grammys for consecutive projects and produced all but one song –Tyler has always had
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Chlöe Bailey from the singing sister duo Chlöe x Halle has returned with another hit single, “Treat Me,” released April 8 2022. With lyrics like “Exceptional/ You know anything less is unacceptable” and “Confessional, I’m skeptical/’Cause being on my level is difficult/ You better wake up and put me on a pedestal,” Bailey is showing the
Every liberal municipality in America flies a flag of remembrance. I use “flag” broadly—it lives not just on the flagpole, but the signpost, t-shirt, face mask, bumper sticker, and virtually everywhere else with enough space for its message. The message makes a reasonable request. It asks that we remember the lives that hate has cut
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