Celebration, Resilience and Creative Brilliance: Inside the Museum of the African Diaspora Afropolitan Ball

Celebration, Resilience and Creative Brilliance: Inside the Museum of the African Diaspora Afropolitan Ball

Corinne Dixon, Pandora Thomas and Nicole Dixon. Photo: Drew Altizer The crown jewel of this year’s Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week was the Museum of the African Diaspora’s Afropolitan Ball—a glittering, high-octane gala that raised more than $1 million for the institution’s programming. The black-tie fête once again drew a mix of power players…

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Curator Karen Comer Lowe’s Five Artists to Watch

Curator Karen Comer Lowe’s Five Artists to Watch

Karen Comer Lowe has spent more than two decades shaping how audiences experience Black art in and from the American South, and her curatorial path has taken her from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art to the Tubman African American Museum, before returning to her hometown of Atlanta.…

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Teresita Fernández Maps the Infinite in ‘Liquid Horizon’ at Lehmann Maupin

Teresita Fernández Maps the Infinite in ‘Liquid Horizon’ at Lehmann Maupin

Teresita Fernández, Liquid Horizon 4, 2025. Solid charcoal, sand, and mixed media on aluminum panel. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London. Photo by Studio Kukla Cuban-American artist Teresita Fernández has made her name with large-scale, site-specific installations and sculptures that examine perception, landscape and the psychological dimensions of space. At…

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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Attorneys Slams Judge Arun Subramanian After Sentencing

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Attorneys Slams Judge Arun Subramanian After Sentencing

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Ex Says She Fainted After Reading Cassie Ventura’s Lawsuit Jane said during her testimony that parts of Ventura’s November 2023 lawsuit—which was ultimately settled—mirrored her own experience with Combs. “I almost fainted, in fact, I think I did,” she told jurors as she cried. “There was three specific  pages that was just…

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11 Things Therapists Wish Every Kid Knew

11 Things Therapists Wish Every Kid Knew

You never know what’s going to stick in the littlest minds. “Sometimes I’ll have kids tell me something their grandmother or coach said—and it might be something that the rest of us would shrug off, but for that child, it really made an impact,” says Amy Morin, a therapist and author of 13 Things Strong…

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