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Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is professor of American Studies at Yale University. His book, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, will be published by NYU Press in November 2018.

With painting parties becoming the latest fad in New York, Tavia Nyong’o contemplates the role of the critic through booze and artmaking

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The public art installation in Hudson River Park will pay tribute to Matta-Clark’s iconic Day’s End and the commerce, crime, leisure and lovemaking of Manhattan's waterfront past 

BY Tavia Nyong’o |

A new film uses a sculpture by the late Donald Rodney to reflect on the many tales of race and class that are etched on the skin 

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