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El Cimarrón

May 10 & 11, 2019


“Back then, I knew more things, more of the dirty tricks which history has covered up. I discussed them only with my friends. Now things have gotten all mixed up in my head. In spite…

Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

January 16 & 17, 2019


Exposing Perle Noire “Miss Baker… has, alas, almost become a little lady. Her caramel-colored body, which overnight became a legend in Europe, is still magnificent, but it has become thinned, trained, almost civilized. Her voice,…

Nativity Reconsidered

December 21 & 22, 2018


My first apartment in New York City was at the 190th stop on the A train, just at the base of Fort Tryon Park, and The Met Cloisters was one of the first places that…

A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song

December 2 & 3, 2018


Harlem & Hughes on My Mind It was thrilling to be the first singer offered an artist residency at The Met. On my first research visit, my mind reeled as I walked through gallery after…