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J. Faith Almiron teaches and writes about art, culture and the social world. Her essays have appeared in museum catalogs such as the Guggenheim, Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, independent galleries, and arts and culture publications such as LA Review of Books's Avidly, Hyperallergic, Rizzoli, ArtNews, and LitHub, among others. Projects have been featured on the New York Times Shortlist and Vanity Fair's Best of 2020 Books.
As a university professor at private and public institutions such as Columbia University (Institute for Research in African American Studies), Rutgers University (American Studies), Ramapo College (Humanities), and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Afro-American Studies), she has edited countless pages of ugly writing by beautiful minds for over two decades. Her critical ethnic studies pedagogy and in-depth cultural and social analysis chops extend to her public work on popular culture and politics. Her students and readers alike feel the edge of her pen as a machete.
Born and raised in New York by Filipinx immigrants, Almiron's debut book manuscript offers a portrait of Haitian-Puerto Rican visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his radical imagination. Her training includes a Ph.D. in American Studies (the University of Hawai'i at Manoa), an MA in Performance Studies (Tisch School of Arts, NYU), and a BA in African-American Studies & Fine Arts-Dance (Oberlin College). During her decade-long tenure in Honolulu, she was the jazz genre director and popular deejay and radio personality Makadangdang on KTUH-FM. She produced original content, regularly interviewed artists, musicians, and community organizers, and played a vinyl ton of Prince.
Though its creators won't admit it, Here Lies Love is a tribute to the former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos, a human rights criminal and a relentless grifter.
J. Faith Almiron discusses the unfair treatment of teachers and educators at Rutgers University. Now a strike is looming.
In addition to contributions to music journalism, Tate was a fixture in Contemporary Black Visual Art.
Art in Odd Places' public art and performance festival NORMAL is a clap-back to any appeal to returning to the previous status quo.
Although many discussions on Díaz begin with his partnership with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the late 1970s, he still has something real to say.
Public protests once filled the same streets now transformed into block parties. Photojournalists captured the impromptu gatherings and spontaneous joy that emerged in the distinct style of each city.
Brant has cogently influenced the legacy of Basquiat on several fronts, but the artist and his work remain gloriously defiant. When Jean-Michel Basquiat unseated his predecessor Andy Warhol as the number one American artist to command the highest auction price, Basquiat's confidante Suzanne Mallouk commented in a New York Times op-ed, "My first thought was that Jean would not have liked this.
In Honolulu - the underdog karaoke champion of the world - there is no hour that someone on the island is not honoring the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, or her pop scion Whitney Houston, in the karaoke booth. Basking by the fluorescent glow of the television, your resident diva, local Filipinx sweetheart or, Samoan crooner is perfectly emulating Whitney's signature melisma.
A rare and poignant compilation of photography and written anecdotes by American photographer and artist Lee Jaffe that captures his close friendship, collaboration, and travels with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as they traversed Japan, Thailand, and Switzerland in 1983.
Art and Objecthood illuminates the role of found objects and unconventional materials in the oeuvre of world-renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. His creative fervor saw no bounds, he painted and drew on everything around him-from chairs to refrigerators, but also on items he encountered on the street: discarded windo