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Dada Masilo in William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour

Refuse the Hour is a chamber opera companion to South African artist William Kentridge’s five-channel video installation, The Refusal of Time. Composed by Kentridge’s longtime collaborator, Philip Miller, it recounts a tale that begins with the myth of Perseus and ends with...

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Watch & Listen: Amindi K. Fro$t, Tessellated & Valleyz - Pine & Ginger

I'm a little late to the party but this collaboration between Jamaican artists Tessellated and Amindi k. Fro$t entitled “Pine & Ginger” is my new JAM! Throughout their dancehall single Amindi and Tesselated sing in patois about using substances to cope with life. Check out...

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Artist Spotlight: Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Mehretu’s work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and a collapse of art...

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ICYMI: Black Women Who Paved the Way for Postmodern Dance Today

(via Dance Magazine) Today, black women like Okwui Okpokwasili and Nora Chipaumire are dominating the New York City downtown scene with tenacity and genius. Just this summer, Okpokwasili's solo performance Bronx Gothic was featured in Andrew Rossi's documentary by the same...

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Let's Get Back on Track

Colin Kaepernick’s movement is not about Trump folks. He started taking a knee to protest police brutality. If you find yourself talking more about how much you hate Trump's reaction and not so much about the actual purpose of Kaepernick's #TakeAKnee movement then you've...

Read more on http://humanstages.com/2017/09/28/lets-get-back-on-track

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Basquiat Night at The Broad Museum

Part of Summer Happenings at The Broad Saturday, September 23, 2017 | 8:00 p.m. Advance tickets SOLD OUT, limited tickets available at the door. Ages 21+. Tickets include access to the full museum, but please note the Infinity Mirrored Room will not be...

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Human Stages Presents........

I'm so excited to announce that Human Stages will be presenting our first evening of performances at the Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festival this October! We will be presenting works by  Christopher Bordenave, Amie Cota, Dr. Anna B. Scott, and Jessica Emmanuel. The annual LAX...

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Princess Nokia: '1992 Deluxe' Album X 'Flava' Video

To commemorate the release of  her highly anticipated major label debut album, 1992 Princess Nokia just dropped a video for her latest single "Flava". This video, directed by Destiny & long-time collaborator Milah Libin,  is the 15th music...

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Watch & Listen: HASEEB "Droppin"

https://youtu.be/BPepIeOjFZs Emcee/Rapper/Producer Haseeb has released his DukeVisions directed video for "Droppin",  a project that the artist says he has poured his heart and soul into. His experiences as a first generation Muslim American millennial create the cultural backdrop for...

Read more on http://humanstages.com/2017/09/08/watch-listen-haseeb-droppin

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Harvey and the arts

The LA Times writes: Hurricane Harvey has devastated large swathes of Texas — and among the affected are numerous cultural institutions. Many Houston museums, thankfully, seem to already be on the rebound. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Contemporary Arts Museum...

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Alley Theatre destroyed by Harvey

Chron writes:  The scene is difficult to convey with words. Walls have fallen down in chunks. The ceilings are all peeling downward, their shapes distorted like ice cream melting in summer. Some rooms have doors blocked by debris that can't be entered. Pianos and tables and large...

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Watch & Listen: Jamila Woods + Chance The Rapper "LSD"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz_kxQdSEeE ( via Pitchfork)  Jamila Woods has shared the music video for her HEAVN song “LSD,” featuring Chance the Rapper. Watch it below. In May, Jamila and Chance put out a call to Chicago Public School students to submit a...

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TOMORROW NIGHT "Witnessing Her" at REDCAT!

Hello Friends! I will be performing my newest piece "Witnessing Her" this Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Downtown LA For REDCAT's NOW Festival! Use the code word: NOW2017 to get 20% off your ticket ;). Tickets for the entire 3 week festival or for just one performance are available...

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IN CONVERSATION: ERIN CHRISTOVALE AND SUNÉ WOODS

 In 1982 Prince gave us “Little Red Corvette” and I guess we should have known that relationships are ephemeral. Loving in the eighties was turbulent and the socio-political climate propelled us into the ’90s Culture Wars. During this decade Al Loving used the spiral as an infinite...

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Andrew Rossi X Okwui Okpokwasili: 'Bronx Gothic' Documentary

The documentary portrait follows Bessie Award–winning actor, dancer, writer, performance artist, singer Okwui Okpokwasili as she stages a final tour for her one-woman show, “Bronx Gothic.” The New York Times called it “a mesmerizing and sometimes harrowing solo piece,” inspired by the...

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The Murder Ballad 1938 comes to Baltimore

I'm so excited to bring this piece back to life at MICA in Baltimore, MD in August!  8/2 @ 8PM 8/3 @ 8PM 8/4 @ 8PM & 10PM 8/5 @ 2PM & 8PM Get Tickets: https://www.artful.ly/poor-dog-group With a murky mix of desire, jealousy and emancipatory yearning, Poor Dog...

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Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture

Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture offers new perspectives on one of art's oldest genres. In the age of social media, when the demand to represent our selves has become a daily imperative, portraiture is more ubiquitous than ever and constantly evolving. In depicting the most...

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