The protests of the summer of 2020 triggered a reckoning in the art world that extended in many directions but returned insistently to the question of Black artists’ visibility in American museums and galleries. A year later, the picture is markedly improved. In fact, Black artists are visible as never before: Simone Leigh was chosen […]

Movie theaters are back! Sort of. Despite the full reopening of most major chains, recent visits to a couple of Washington, D.C.-area theaters, albeit on weekday evenings, found few customers, and what the New York Times called, in its report from the multiplex, an air of “zombie-mall weirdness.” (Brains, we want brains.) This summer is […]