Naked Acts Now: Seen Issue 007 Launch w/ Ja’Tovia Gary & Bridgett M. Davis
Celebrate the launch of our latest issue with guest editor Ja’Tovia Gary, lite bites, music and dancing.
Celebrate genre-defying artists
Celebrate the launch of our latest issue with guest editor Ja’Tovia Gary, lite bites, music and dancing.
The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank.
BlackStar-curated screenings co-presented with the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, taking place across both venues this fall and winter.
Desire is the focus of this shorts block, which showcase lush, joyful, and tender longing for a world beyond patriarchy.
Shorts inspired by the themes in The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
BlackStar's annual benefit honoring luminaries in global arts and culture.
A screening of writer-director Nefertite Nguvu’s debut feature In the Morning, relates to the theme of femininity and offers an exploration of love, infidelity, and friendship with a focus on the interiority of Black women.
Kinship is the focus of today’s short films, which include Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2012), Mickalene Thomas’s directorial debut. These films explore the idea that what is past is also present and celebrate the art created by Black people across time.
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