Premiere as an audio play at the Public Theatre, Erika Dickerson-Daspenza’s, winner of the 2021 Susan Blackburn Award shadow/earth returns in the spring of 2023 with a superb live production.

As Hurricane Katrina begins its ruin, tensions between duty and desire surface, a levee is brought to its knees, and Ruth must struggle with whatever she is willing to let go. shadow/earth is a lyrical meditation on inheritance, erotic fleetingness and self-determination.

Directed by Candis C. Jones, winner of the Lilly Prize, shadow/earth is the first installment of a 10-piece cycle traversing the Katrina Diaspora in an examination of the ongoing effects of disaster, evacuation, displacement and urban renewal rippling through New Orleans and beyond .

The live production of shadow/earth will be presented from April 20 to May 21 at The public theater At New York.

Learn more and access tickets at publictheatre.org.

Works of Tibetan Buddhist and Christian art made over 12 centuries explore death, the afterlife and the desire to continue to exist. Must see in NYC.

Sundaram is famous for its multidisciplinary studio practice steeped in activism and political awareness.

The work of artist Tony Rave reminds us that piety is not strictly white.

Ayanna Dozier, Ilana Harris-Babou, Meena Hasan, Lucia Hierro, Catherine Opie, Chuck Ramirez and Pacifico Silano explore the myths of the American dream at BRIC House in Brooklyn.

Photographs captured war-torn Ukraine, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and an Iranian woman defying the mandatory hijab law.

Cuts to the New York State Council on the Arts budget are attributed to the expiration of pandemic relief programs, but advocates say arts organizations need more support.

The two-part exhibition showcases the work of 41 graduate artists in all disciplines, including painting, sculpture, printmaking and integrated practices.

Museum security asked Heather Agyepong to leave the facility black napsdesigned as a safe space for black people, after a white visitor called it “aggressive”.

The proposed statewide arts funding cuts would hit entities of color the hardest.

Curated by Jennifer Samet and Andrea Belag, this group exhibition in New York explores the feminine through aesthetics, as opposed to identity or gender.

A multitude of documentaries exemplify ND/NF’s unconventional programming philosophy.

Kimetha Vanderveen’s paintings are about the interplay of materiality and light, the connection between the palpable and ephemeral world in which we live.