Arts & Culture
Black Dandyism and the Power of Fashion
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Spring 2025 exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” examines fashion through the lens of Black dandyism. Drawing from Monica L. Miller’s book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, the exhibition — guest curated by Miller — formed the basis for this year’s dazzling Met Gala,…
Read MoreUncle Bob
When I was working on my story last month about Denzel Washington’s work while a student at Fordham and now on Broadway in Othello, I kept running across the name of a theater professor: Robert Stone. He had been one of Washington’s acting teachers and the two performed together in Fordham’s production of Othello. Stone,…
Read MoreNurith Aviv’s Dual Identities and Dueling Languages
Language is a contradiction: At once home and foreign, a unifier and a divider, a liberator and an oppressor. This is the landscape that groundbreaking French filmmaker Nurith Aviv paints in her compelling 2004 documentary, “Misafa Lesafa,” “From Language to Language.” The film was screened at the Center for Jewish History in New York on…
Read MoreWaiting for Othello: Denzel Washington Returns to Broadway
This is the latest example of the city’s never-ending surge of inequity — ticket prices that favor the super-rich and the ultra-connected while the can-do shows and actors who are the beating heart of Broadway are displaced for the theatrical equivalent of a Marvel cinematic summer tentpole: celebrity-stuffed, and emotionless.
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