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Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale, and the author of Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018).

At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ offers a sartorial response to exclusion, dehumanization and identity reclamation

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With painting parties becoming the latest fad in New York, Tavia Nyong’o contemplates the role of the critic through booze and artmaking

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The public art installation in Hudson River Park will pay tribute to Matta-Clark’s iconic Day’s End and the commerce, crime, leisure and lovemaking of Manhattan's waterfront past 

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A new film uses a sculpture by the late Donald Rodney to reflect on the many tales of race and class that are etched on the skin 

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