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Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists? This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.

Until we can disentangle visibility from institutional co-optation, Black artists like Amy Sherald and Rashid Johnson will continue to be celebrated, but only on someone else’s terms.

Scarborough urban farm expanding to help more people grow their own food | CBC News An urban farm that helps address food insecurity in Toronto’s east end is about to get bigger, allowing more people to grow their own food within city limits.

Scarborough urban farm expanding to help more people grow their own food: "An urban farm that helps address food insecurity in Toronto's east end is about to get bigger and allow more people to grow their own food within city limits"
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Today! We’ll explore the city’s history with A SCANDALOUS TOUR OF OLD TORONTO!

It’s free as part of Jane’s Walk — just meet at the little clock tower in the Distillery at 3pm and we’ll spend the next couple of hours talking about duels and riots and brothels and corruption.

The Ancestral Arts Collective presents Ehime Ora's book launch for Spirits Come from Water, Wednesday, May 28 at Another Story Bookshop and The Mind Lab Workshop on Thursday, May 29 at Beaver Hall Gallery in Toronto

Honoured to be bringing @ehimeora.bsky.social to Toronto for a book launch of Spirits Come from Water and her workshop, The Mind Lab, which will hold space for Black caregivers, grievers, and death workers. These events launch the Ancestral Arts Collective: ancestralartscollective.com

Photographer's Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s - Flashbak DB Burkeman was clearing out his old bedroom at his mother's house in London when he discovered rolls of film he'd taken between 1976 and 1982. These images from his rediscovered photos tells us the s...

Photographer DB Burkeman's Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s

The Black Women Building A Black Arts Movement In Their City The Black women in Toronto building a Black arts movement in their city

In a city as culturally vibrant as Toronto, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Led by Black women in the arts, a dynamic movement is redefining creativity, community and cultural stewardship.... www.forbes.com/sites/byrona...

When Colour Seeps In: The Chat with Sarah Leavitt · Blog Post · 49th Shelf Some books come along and split your heart wide open. Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love (Arsenal Pulp Press) is one of these books. ...

Check out our conversation with Sarah Leavitt, author of Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/04... #CanLit

With all due respect — it's the patrician FU

The Anxiety of Grief Panic after a death is normal. Here's how to live with it.

Did you know that panic and anxiety attacks are a normal expression of grief? I wrote about my experiences with them after the loss of my mom, what I learned from them and how I coped for @chelbellguild.bsky.social's Life and Death Substack
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After a long hiatus due to my own grief, the dead zine is back baby! In this last issue of Season 1 on food, I wrote about the last meal my Dad ate before his death, using meals as rituals for endings and the last meals of those incarcerated on death row. thedeadzine.beehiiv.com/p/the-grief-...

The public social internet is worth designing and governing in a way that demonstrates less than total amnesia about the history of human civilizations and the ways we’ve learned to be together without killing each other. For people with the ability and willingness to work on network problems, the real choice isn't between staying on the wasteland surfaces of the internet and going underground, but between making safer and better places for human sociability and not doing that. Unfortunately, the business of building systems for civilization is as complicated and as intrinsically political online as it is offline. If retreat seems easier, that’s because it is. But here we are.

Going into the weekend thinking about systems for civilization

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"...the tiny low-lying island of Gardi Sugdub, is the first in Panama to be relocated because of climate change. The government has said they face 'imminent risk' from rising sea levels, which scientists say are likely to render the island uninhabitable by 2050."

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem One of the most striking things about Home to Harlem is that no one seems to be at home in Harlem. Not Jake, the novel’s main character, a Virginia‑born African American migrant to New York; not Ra…

“Home to Harlem was the first bestselling novel by a Black author in the United States, propelled by white readers fascinated by Harlem’s famed nightlife.” Belinda Edmondson on displacement and belonging in Claude McKay’s landmark novel.

Poem "Kanye West is Not Picasso" by Leonard Cohen Kanye West is not Picasso I am Picasso Kanye West is not Edison I am Edison I am Tesla Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything I am the Dylan of anything I am the Kanye West of Kanye West The Kanye West Of the great bogus shift of bullshit culture From one boutique to another I am Tesla I am his coil The coil that made electricity soft as a bed I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is When he shoves your ass off the stage I am the real Kanye West I don’t get around much anymore I never have I only come alive after a war And we have not had it yet

Poem: "Kanye West is Not Picasso" by Leonard Cohen via @literaryhub.bsky.social

Black and white archival photograph of Dr. Rita Cox holding up a book in front of a gathering of children in a library for a storytelling session. Poster is promoting a Black history walking tour of Parkdale on Saturday February 22 at 2pm, starting at the Parkdale branch of Toronto Public Library.

The Parkdale Residents’ Association is partnering with BAND Gallery for a Black History Walking Tour of Parkdale

Saturday, 22 Feb, 2 - 3PM
Meet inside the Parkdale Public Library (Queen St West at Cowan Ave.)
#Toronto #BlackHistoryMonth

Alonzo Davis, Artist and Pioneering Gallerist, Has Died Alonzo Davis, the artist and educator who cofounded Los Angeles's storied African American stronghold the Brockman Gallery, has died at 82.

Another life to be remembered in this time:

Painting of bird's eye view of two children making chalk drawings on a sidewalk, including of a nval boat, flag, man walking, and two boxers fighting

To kick off Black History Month, one of my absolutely favorite works by artist Jacob Lawrence: Sidewalk Drawings, 1943, which underscores the complexity of Lawrence's singular vision in how it links the joy & exuberance of children drawing with difficult subject matter like war & violence

Print featuring a stylised multicoloured bird in flight facing left with many oval shaped feathers on wings and tail, a small head and legs which dangle towards the back, all on a white background

Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Festive Bird, 1970 #womensart

Step Into Sonia Boyce’s Sensory World Shimmering with color and sound, her exhibition Feeling Her Way at the Art Gallery of Ontario feels both expansive and enveloping.

Sonia Boyce’s interest in multi-sensory art and Black women artists is evident in her explosive show at the Art Gallery of Ontario, which evokes Afrofuturist and dance club aesthetics.

Jaune Quick-to-see Smith. Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World. 1991 | MoMA Audio from Collection 1980s–Present. Hear artists' fresh perspectives on their work. Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration wi...

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World, artist audio statement
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade Canoe: A Western Fantasy 2015, lithograph, 18" × 30"

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Trade Canoe: A Western Fantasy
2015, lithograph, 18" × 30"

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, "Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria" 2005, oil on canvas, 60" x 200" 4 panels

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria
2005, oil on canvas, 60" x 200" 4 panels

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, pathbreaking Native American artist, has died, aged 85 A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Smith received institutional support and success late in life

A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith received institutional support and success late in life www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/28/j...

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Painting "War Horse in Babylon" 2005, oil on canvas, 60 x 100" diptych

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
War Horse in Babylon, 2005
oil on canvas, 60" x 100" diptych

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Native American Artist and Activist, Has Died Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the pioneering artist who mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks, has died.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, trailblazing Native American artist and activist, 85
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Album: "Secret Agent Number 005" Five Deez feat. Lone Catalysts - Blue Light Special

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Five Deez feat. Lone Catalysts - Blue Light Special

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A new Maggie Helwig book is a good thing, though wish she didn’t have to write this. A vital, righteous voice.

#artsky

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