FESPACO

A Seat On the Aisle

Two recent events taking place a world apart, have propelled my thoughts back several decades.  They speak to the interconnection of art, culture, and politics.  What links them are a film festival and the synchronicity of time. One is the publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker’s diaries, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. The other is…

American People

Painting and protest.  Art and activism.  Singular style; multidisciplinary approach. The exhibit at the New Museum of works by Faith Ringgold heralds all of this and more.  It encompasses three floors and six decades of her paintings, multimedia story quilts, and craft-based soft sculptures.  That it is the first full retrospective of the 90-year old…