Brooklyn Academy of Music stages all-black 'Julius Caesar'
REVIEW - Overall this production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is solid, successfully using its new context without feeling one bit contrived or gimmicky...
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents 'Blues for Smoke'
REVIEW - The Whitney Museum of American Art exhibit, 'Blues for Smoke,' features an exciting array of works by a wide range of contemporary black artists. But it offers so much more...
Unseen Basquiat artwork unveiled
theGRIO REPORT - Alexis Adler, who lived with Basquiat before he was famous, recently revealed plans to share a previously unseen, thirty-year-old collection of art works and ephemera from the early career of the tragic and the prolific creator Jean-Michel Basquiat...
Ernest Dickerson directs the 'Dead'
theGRIO REPORT - When it comes to filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, looking forward, looking ahead, is not just hopeful, it is essential...
'NW' explores black upward mobility
REVIEW - 'NW', the latest literary contribution from Zadie Smith – the critically acclaimed author of 'White Teeth', 'The Autograph Man', and 'On Beauty' – does not quake with theatrical plot twists or crackle with the suspense of a mystery or adventure...
Who are the 'Beasts of the Southern Wild?'
REVIEW - At moments one can’t help but wonder: are the people occupying the 'bathtub' in fact the beasts of the southern wild?...
4 days in Anguilla: A travel guide
SLIDESHOW - A writer takes a stroll through the Anguila Literary Festival...
'God Don’t Make No Mistakes' makes a few
REVIEW - If you enjoy the cheap highs and lows of daytime drama, stories of moral impunity, and admittedly colorful, if difficult to understand, characters (and who doesn’t sometimes!), give this a fair shot...
Kehinde Wiley offers feast for the eyes
REVIEW -- With 'An Economy of Grace', Kehinde Wiley offers a sumptuous feast for the eyes and an addendum to the political and aesthetic explorations of his earlier works...
Toni Morrison's 'Home' is where her heart is
REVIEW - With 'Home', Morrison continues to beg the reader to reflect critically on notions of identity, race, gender and class, and, perhaps most importantly, to examine what me mean when we talk about freedom...
