From London to Lagos, Accra, Miami, Chicago, and more – here is an ongoing list of 85+ Black-owned/founded businesses which are bettering the arts. More…
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Actors’ Equity States That Broadway’s Extended Suspension Demonstrates Need for Economic Arts Relief Package
Actors’ Equity Association released a statement following the Broadway League’s announcement extending Broadway’s closure through at least January 3, 2021. More…
Teen Vogue: The ‘Art World’ Can’t Exist in a Decolonized Future
“If you take away imperial plunder, what else do you have to offer?” asks Chaédria LaBouvier, the first Black curator and first Black author of a Guggenheim catalogue in the museum’s 80-year history. More…
The ARTnews Accord: Gonzalo Casals and Caroline Woolard Talk About Rebuilding Through Mutual Aid, Community Action, and Alternative Education
In April, as the coronavirus had forced the shutdown of much of New York City, Casals and Woolard joined ARTnews for a conversation via telephone. Casals did so as he was in the latter stages of recovering from Covid-19. More…
Bloomberg: In American Theater, a Radical Accounting of Race and Privilege
June 19, 2020: In tandem with the rise of protests in the streets about systemic racism, Black and other minority artists take the cause to the stage. More…
NY Times Style Magazine: Nine Black Artists and Cultural Leaders on Seeing and Being Seen
Amy Sherald, Michael R. Jackson and others discuss the challenges and opportunities of cultivating black audiences and dismantling historically white institutions. More…
NY Times: Dance Companies Take Baby Steps Back to Rehearsal
May 28, 2020: Ballet and contemporary performers across Europe are returning to work in a different world, with masks, liability waivers and no touching. More…
The Next Wave Initiative
The Next Wave Initiative is a developmental branch of The Directors Company, committed to amplifying future Black voices in The American Theatre. More…
NY Times: Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back
As Art Basel opens online, African-American galleries are glaringly absent. More…
WBUR: ‘Now You Will See Us’ — Being Black In Boston Theaters
Over the last several weeks in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and Ahmaud Arbery, two groups of employees inside two separate Boston theaters have sent their employers demands. In each case, the aim is to hold theaters accountable and ask them to do more than utter Black Lives Matter and place George Floyd’s name on their marquee and social media. They’re asking for pay equity, changes to workplace culture, and an acknowledgment of how cultural organizations have been complicit in creating an environment that can make BIPOC (Black, indigenous, people of color) feel unwelcome at best and hinder their careers at worst. Nearly a dozen Black artists in Boston spoke to WBUR about how they’ve managed to navigate the rampant systemic racism that has existed for decades. More…