Tulsa My Job Is Just Museum-Goer At the Vintage Barbie Museum Pop-Up, you too can reconnect with your childhood self—and with the many selves represented in the world of Barbie. Alicia Chesser 5 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
LA Queering The Way SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A.: SEXUAL SCIENCE AND THE IMAGI-NATION OPENING RECEPTION Fisher Museum of Art at University of Southern California Los Angeles Sept. 5, 2024 A map at the Melissa Saywell 20 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Our Pun-dolences To The Losers Welcome To PUNderland: The Great Philbrook Pun-Off Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa June 21, 2024 I love it when Philbrook does something outside their realm of expertise. During his eight Z.B. Reeves 28 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland CALLI: The Art of Xicanx Peoples Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples Oakland Museum of California June 14, 2024 — January 26, 2025 Fred Noland 23 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Screen Savors Dream House: Inside Music + Video Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St. Philadelphia Through Aug. 3, 2024 At the exhibit Dream House: Inside Music + Video, I found myself surrounded by a Nora Grace-Flood 9 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford More Than Just A Caning Victim: Charles Sumner The Abolitionist The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union Mark Twain House and Museum Hartford May 23, 2024 I concede that not many people spend a Jamil Ragland 24 May 2024 · 3 min read
LA Most Valuable Pfeiffer PAUL PFEIFFER: PROLOGUE TO THE STORY OF THE BIRTH OF FREEDOM Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Through June 16, 2024 I hate sports. I’ve come around to physical Brandon Sward 8 May 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia Gumball Poems Remind Readers: You’re Not A Robot The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Museum for Art in Wood 141 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia April 27, 2024 “Tough love is being punched until you don’t cry — and crying Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 6 min read
Oakland Baby Bhangra Bangs, Bro Non Stop Bhangra at OMCA Friday Nights Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St, Oakland April 19, 2024 I had been to OMCA’s Friday night events a handful of Stacey Peters 25 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Playing Against Type: Finding The Keys To History In The Basement The American Revolution Experience Traveling Exhibit/Hartford History Exhibit CT Old State House Hartford April 9, 2024 I’m not a big fan of the American Revolution. I find it Jamil Ragland 11 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland “Black Gold” Found In Oakland Museum Town Treasures: Black Migration Stories Camron-Stanford House Oakland Feb. 16, 2024 Even if you regularly walk along Lake Merritt in Oakland, you might not notice the Camron-Stanford House, the stately Robin Lapid 19 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Spiritualism And Slavery At The Stowe Center Spiritualism as Resistance: Spirits at Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford Feb. 2, 2024 The central truth of American history is that every question you can ask has its answer Jamil Ragland 5 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Black Inventors Tour Reflects Need For Black History Month, After All The start of Black History Month always elicits competing feelings for me. On the one hand, I enjoy learning in general, and specifically about my people and what they’ve Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
LA Grandmas Gone Wild YOSHIE SAKAI: GRANDMA ENTERTAINMENT FRANCHISE Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park, Cal. Through Feb. 3, 2024 Like the siren song of a real nightclub, a karaoke version of “Fergalicious” lures Rebecca Giordano 28 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford How Violence Shaped Our History Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America Mark Twain House Hartford Jan. 19, 2024 My journey through college was not an easy one. It took me three different Jamil Ragland 22 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Finding My Story On Gallery Walls First Sundays Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St. Oakland The Oakland Museum of California is not that crowded around noon on this Sunday. But there are a lot of Robin Lapid 11 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Why The “Saints” Came Marching In When Two Worlds Met: Through European Eyes Stanley-Whitman House Farmington Nov. 16, 2023 The European colonization of the Americas is one of those world-altering events in history. There were nearly Jamil Ragland 17 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Black History, Both Lost and Found, at the Old State House Why Hartford’s Ethnic Heritage Matters Today Connecticut’s Old Statehouse 800 Main Street, Hartford Do you know who Catharine Freebody was? If you’ve never heard that name, you’ Jamil Ragland 6 Oct 2023 · 4 min read