By Arismendy Feliz The Brooklyn Museum recently exhibited the works of two mainstream successful black artists, Kehinde Wiley and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The presentation of these two artists simultaneously connects the museum to a Black aesthetic and community, a connection that is amiss with museums and the more general art world. It’s that very lack ofContinueContinue reading “Wiley & Basquiat: An Analysis of Blackness in the Art World”
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Lotus in the Mud: Blackness, Decolonizing Yoga and Tai Chi and My Teaching Practice
By Dr. Herukhuti I started learning yoga, pranayama, tai chi chuan and chi kung when I was 14. Our school, the Temple of the White and Gold Lotus, Shrine of Amen-Ra, was housed in the parlor floor of a pre-gentrification, Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone that our teacher had reclaimed from abandonment by squatting in it with his family. The tightly-woven,ContinueContinue reading “Lotus in the Mud: Blackness, Decolonizing Yoga and Tai Chi and My Teaching Practice”