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Living in black beyond

Artist Adama Delphine Fawandu’s “Deep Inside I’m Blue No. 2” hangs in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery. Fawandu’s work, alongside other Black artists’, hangs at the Parsons School of Design Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery through Friday. Photo by Lilly Gorman

An art exhibition celebrates beauty and wickedness in Black realities. There are representations in artistic practice, often more times than not reincarnations of past stereotypes, and then there…

Michelle Materre, fearless leader for women in independent film and New School professor, has died

Michelle Materre, associate professor of Media Studies and Film at The New School, died of cancer on Friday. Throughout her career, she dedicated herself to opening doors in the filmmaking industry to women and people of color. Image courtesy The New School

Michelle Materre, a New School professor whose accomplishments span over thirty years in media and film, died of cancer at White Plains Hospital on March 11, according to…