Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

On our mindsChiara Isabella Spagnoli GabardiMarch 18, 2019Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

Phoebe on St. Patrick's Day

On our mindsChavisa WoodsMarch 18, 2019Phoebe Mar, St. Patrick's Day

Issue No. 023 (Dope / Not Dope) - Barbara Purcell

On our mindsBarbara PurcellMarch 15, 2019Barbara Purcell, Steve Cannon

Sculptor chosen for Sojourner Truth monument at Walkway Over the Hudson

On our mindsDaily FreemanMarch 15, 2019Daily Freeman, Sojourner Truth, The Associated Press, Freeman Staff

‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life

On our mindsNew York TimesMarch 11, 2019The New York Times, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martha Schwendener

Personal Problems presented by Ishmael Reed and Steve Cannon

On our mindsChavisa WoodsMarch 11, 2019Pop Matters, Chris Robe, Ishmael Reed, Steve Cannon

NYC Has Just 5 Statues Of Historic Women. That's About To Change

On our mindsChavisa WoodsMarch 11, 2019National Public Radio, Laurel Wamsley, Don Hogan Charles/Getty Images

A Blind Publisher, Poet — and Link to the Lower East Side’s Cultural History

On our mindsNew York TimesMarch 8, 2019David Hammons, The New York Times Style Magazine, Adam Golfer, M.h. Miller

Darius James’s Antic Satire of American Racism

On our mindsChavisa WoodsMarch 7, 2019Darius James, The Nation, Nawal Arjini, Graham Hains

The Whitney Biennial: 75 Artists Are In, and One Dissenter Steps Out (The New York Times)

This year’s Whitney Biennial, considered the country’s most important showcase of contemporary art, has 75 participating artists — and one who has already withdrawn.

On our mindsNew York TimesFebruary 27, 2019whitney museum, Whitney Biennial, The New York Times

Filmmaker’s Incubator –Firelight Documentary Lab – Sends Two Films to Sundance: “Always in Season” and “Words from a Bear”

New York, NY – November 30, 2018 – Stanley Nelson’s much anticipated film on the life of jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, his company Firelight Films announced today. Produced with Eagle Rock Entertainment and American Masters Pictures, MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOLis a definitive account of the man behind the legend.

In addition, two fellows of Nelson’s Documentary Lab, an incubator that supports and mentors filmmakers of color, will be in competition at Sundance: ALWAYS IN SEASON, directed and produced by Jacqueline Olive, which explores the history and legacy of African American lynchings, and WORDS FROM A BEAR, director and producer Jeffrey Palmer’s examination of the Native American writer N. Scott Momaday.

"Oscars 2019: 'Green Book' is worst best picture winner since 'Crash'" - Justin Chang

On our mindsChavisa WoodsFebruary 27, 2019Green Book, Oscars 2019, Justin Chang, Film Critics, film review

L.E.S.P.I. presents "Chinatown: Lens on the Lower East Side" A Contemporary Photography Exhibit

On our mindsChavisa WoodsFebruary 27, 2019Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, lower east side, Photo Exhibit

Dinner with Good Friends

On our minds, PhotosChavisa WoodsFebruary 27, 2019Steve Cannon, a gathering of the tribes

A Massive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Mural Pops Up On The Lower East Side (SecretNYC)

If you’ve walked around the Lower East Side recently you’ve probably noticed the larger-than-life portrait of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Houston.

On our mindsChavisa WoodsFebruary 27, 2019Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, LES, Bianca Bahamondes, Lexi Bella

Tribes #12 featured in Grace Wales Bonner Exhibition at Serpentine Sackler Gallery

On our minds, NewsChavisa WoodsFebruary 19, 2019Grace Wales Bonner, A Gathering of the Tribes, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Steve Cannon, Ishmael Reed

Steve by Andrea Cauthen

Photos, On our mindsChavisa WoodsFebruary 18, 2019Andrea Cauthen, A Gathering of the Tribes, Steve Cannon, photography, black and white

Where Did That Designer Get That Idea? (New York Times)

LONDON — A few weeks before her London Fashion Week show, scheduled for Sunday, the prizewinning fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner was wandering around a show of a different kind at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery here.

Vilma Hodo, a Volunteer here at Tribes

On our mindsChavisa WoodsFebruary 11, 2019vilma hodo, actor, a gathering of the tribes, volunteer

MoMA to Close, Then Open Doors to More Expansive View of Art (New York Times)

As the Museum of Modern Art begins the final stage of its $400 million overhaul, it will close for four months this summer and autumn to reconfigure its galleries, rehang the entire collection and rethink the way that the story of modern and contemporary art is presented to the public.