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Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is professor of American Studies at Yale University. His book, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, will be published by NYU Press in November 2018.

Thematic Essays
Can Paint 'N Pour Parties Make You a Honest Art Critic?

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

BY Tavia Nyong’o |
Opinion , Thematic Essays
David Hammons’s Empty Cathedral Echoes an Old New York

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 

BY Tavia Nyong’o |
Features
One Take: Luke Willis Thompson ‘_Human’

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 

BY Tavia Nyong’o |