With ambient vocals conjuring Nina Simone and soulful hums like ocean waves in reverb, Justin Hicks reminds us about good love—how it washes over us in ebbs and flows, encouraging us to grow.
Read MoreJames Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning FAT HAM, directed by The Public’s Associate Artistic Director Saheem Ali, is the latest co-production between The Public Theater and National Black Theatre (NBT), which have been collaborating since 1968. The Public and NBT are equally committed to creating art that catalyzes civic engagement, particularly pertaining to historically excluded and marginalized communities.
Read MoreThe Culture LP is commemorating ten years of uplifting the global majority through the power of the arts. We are celebrating in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum on Juneteenth with an afternoon of activities celebrating self-expression, community and Black liberation.
Read MoreThe Culture LP and The Museum of the City of New York Presents — Futura Noir: A Celebration of Black Creativity. This February 2022 join us for an intimate concert performance, film screenings, panel discussions, and virtual trivia night.
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Photographs courtesy of Leeza Joneé
Talk to HIM is a collaborative public art installation and film conceived by the artists Imani Shanklin Roberts & Raya Kassisieh that interacts with masculinity head-on. The artist, Imani Shanklin Roberts, recites the unsaid, hidden, anonymous, repressed, and disenfranchised voices volunteered from the participating public. Masculine identifying persons were filmed as they received the words, the camera capturing the physical manifestations of their emotional responses while they remained silent.
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