Continue Reading Contradictions Ever read anything by Richard Powers? Even know the name? For someone like me whose research domaine is memory, who is deeply…
Continue Reading Reversals I’ll close this week on art tidbits with two items that might interest you. One is an exhibit in NYC (friends there: you…
Continue Reading Too Late If you and I had a bit of foresight, we would have gotten our yellow fever inoculation about 8 weeks ago. That…
Continue Reading Nimble Women in Miami Riddle me that: what does nimble mean in the context of an art museum’s mission? I found this on the website of the Patricia…
Continue Reading Tidbits from the Art World I figured after some weeks of heavy-duty politics I’ll turn to some events in the art world that caught my attention. Do…
Continue Reading Smudge Not sure which weighs more heavily in today’s offering: the joy to see a fearless young man – the poet – on…
Continue Reading When A Black Man Walks Lots of reading material today, each one informative in its own right and/or a literary feat. Not much I have to add…
Continue Reading Sympathy I know why the caged bird sings….I first “heard” these words in a piece of music – Buckshot Lefonque’s version to be…
Continue Reading Magnolia Flowers Yesterday’s question about flowers as a topic for Black poets might be answered with today’s poem by Langston Hughes. I have seen various…
Continue Reading my dad asks, “how com black folks can’t just write abut flowers?” A couple of years back I insensitively scolded a friend of mine for helicopter-parenting her daughter. The then 12-year old had not…
