One of classic Hollywood’s major crimes is to have invested colossal efforts in fiction and hardly any in nonfiction, which, in the early days, was largely relegated to “newsreels.” As a result, most ...

The transition from the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Depression years of the early 1930s is the backdrop for playwright Pearl Cleage’s play “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” which is ...

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A new art exhibition opening this fall in New York City invites visitors to explore a lesser-known but vital chapter of the Harlem Renaissance: the queer artists, writers and performers who helped ...

Introduction -- pt. 1. Aesthetics and the new Negro -- African American representations on stage : minstrel performances and Hurston's dream of a "real" Negro theatre / Mónica González Caldeiro -- No ...

James Van Der Zee, Person in Fur-Trimmed Ensemble, 1926. © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY At a time when ...

The Department of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Renaissance Italian Literature (1400-1600), with a secondary specialization ...

Dapper Dan didn’t just address a sold-out crowd at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday night — he had attendees rapt with his wit and wisdom. In a Q&A with Monica L. Miller, guest curator of the ...

Studies have shown that journaling can boost your mental health and help you process difficult emotions—even if you don’t end up keeping what you’ve written down. But it can be a daunting task to ...

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When Maximilian Davis presented his debut Ferragamo show at this long-shuttered central Milan palazzo almost exactly three years ago, it was a work in progress. Its owners (the Ferragamo family) were ...

Tuscaloosa will be a new American hub for studying the Great Bard. English professor Tricia McElroy is the new executive director of the Shakespeare Association of America, dedicated to studying the ...