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‘La Fille Du Régiment’ at Met Opera

The Met’s bet on a celebrity cameo paid off

November 12, 2025

The Free Black Women’s Library x ‘Lorna Simpson: Source Notes’

📺 Episode 41 – ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Review

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at The Met

Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick

Art on the Ave “Spread Love, It’s the Brooklyn Way”

August 3, 2021
Hip Hop Til Infinity

September 12, 2023
Affordable Art Fair Fall 2023

October 4, 2023
Fall For Dance Festival 2023

October 4, 2023
Apollo’s [at] the Intersection: Festival of Arts and Ideas

October 6, 2023
Africa Fashion Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum

October 12, 2023
Amy Hall Garner’s “Somewhere in the Middle” Performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company

November 7, 2023
Refuge Plays

November 9, 2023
First Thoughts on Spike Lee: Creative Sources at BK Museum

November 9, 2023
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick

November 10, 2023
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding

November 10, 2023
“Get Your Ass In The Water and Swim Like Me” Review (Ep 1)

January 31, 2024
ICP @ 50 Celebrating a Milestone at the International Center of Photography

February 9, 2024
“Spike Lee: Creative Sources” Review (Ep 2)

February 10, 2024
“Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance” Review (Ep 3)

February 12, 2024
The Studio Museum’s “And Ever An Edge” at MoMA PS1

February 12, 2024
“Giants” at the Brooklyn Museum

February 15, 2024
“Giants” at the Brooklyn Museum Review (EP 4)

February 19, 2024
Nike’s 4th Annual Black Community Voices Dinner

February 28, 2024
Flesh of the Earth

March 6, 2024
The Effect ‘crosses the pond’ to The Shed

March 9, 2024
Richard Hunt’s “Early Masterworks”

March 12, 2024
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at The Met

March 15, 2024
“Before Yesterday We Could Fly”: The Afrofuturism Room at The Met

March 17, 2024
Laurence Fishburne’s Like They Do In the Movies at PAC NYC

March 20, 2024
Affordable Art Fair – Spring 2024

March 22, 2024
Making Their Mark: Works From the Shah Garg Collection

March 23, 2024
Maestra’s Amplify Annual Fundraiser

March 25, 2024
R. Gregory Christie Mural Unveiled at The Climate Museum’s “End Fossil Fuels” Pop Up

March 28, 2024
Jasper Marsalis’s Slauson Malone 1 at Park Avenue Armory

March 28, 2024
“Ask To See My Hands” at Bean and Log

March 30, 2024
“Black Girl Therapy” comes to NYC

March 30, 2024
“Geometric Language” at Tanya Weddemire Gallery

March 30, 2024
“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” Exhibit Review (Ep 9)

March 31, 2024
Auriea Harvey’s “The Unanswered Question”

April 4, 2024
Courtney Minor’s “Hidden in Plain Sight, Vol. 1” – A Thank You Note

April 6, 2024
Nona Faustine’s “White Shoes” at the Brooklyn Museum

April 10, 2024
“Auriea Harvey: My veins are the wires, my body is your keyboard”

April 18, 2024
Open Studios at Mana Contemporary

April 19, 2024
National Black Theatre presents Packages O’ The Things We Deliver

April 19, 2024
Jordans

April 20, 2024
Dox Thrash, “Imprint”

April 21, 2024
Hell’s Kitchen

April 23, 2024
Myths: The People Who Carry the Sky

April 27, 2024
Humans Who Teach

April 30, 2024
Fat Ham

May 1, 2024
“Fat Ham” Review (Ep 14)

May 12, 2024
Black Star Reviews x Industry City Design Festival Panel

May 18, 2024
“The Fires” Review (Ep 15)

May 21, 2024
Juneteenth in Harlem

June 19, 2024
Black Art Sightings at the 2024 Hamptons Art Fair

July 11, 2024
“Home” Broadway Play Review (EP 17)

July 14, 2024
SHEER x Nia Winslow

July 18, 2024
Ase: Afrofrequencies at ARTECHOUSE

July 21, 2024
Della Wells’ “Mambo Land” at Andrew Edlin Gallery

August 9, 2024
“Mountain to Fire” James Baldwin at NYPL

August 12, 2024
LaToya Ruby Frazier “Monuments of Solidarity”

September 4, 2024
Art on Paper New York 2024

September 5, 2024
“The Divining: Ceremonies from in the name of the m/other tree”

September 13, 2024
Table 17 (Episode 19)

September 19, 2024
Wangari Mathenge’s “Bedimmed Boundaries: Between Wakefulness and Sleep” at Nicola Vassell

September 25, 2024
Selected Reviews from Fall for Dance 2024

September 26, 2024
Whit Harris “Best Laid Plans”

September 26, 2024
“Good Bones” Review (Ep 21)

October 10, 2024
“Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies”

October 13, 2024
“Bad Kreyòl” Off-Broadway Play Review (Ep 24)

November 3, 2024
Carl Broady “Jazz in Harlem”

November 8, 2024
Death Becomes Her on Broadway

November 13, 2024
Three Shows at Schomburg

November 16, 2024
“I Got A Story To Tell” at Tanya Weddemire Gallery

February 1, 2025
Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876-Now

February 14, 2025
Billie and Beyond: Lydia Caesar

February 15, 2025
NYPL Live: Sarah Lewis and Nell Irvin Painter

February 19, 2025
2025 C. Virginia Fields Awards in Harlem

February 20, 2025
Nike’s 5th Annual Black Community Voices Dinner

February 25, 2025
Black Star Reviews Turns 1

February 28, 2025
February 2025 Recap

March 1, 2025
“The Great Privation…” at Soho Rep

March 1, 2025
Planet Word Museum in DC

March 7, 2025
Kings…Come Home: North American Premiere

March 9, 2025
Will Watson Studio Visit (Ep 27)

March 15, 2025
Jarrett Key “Above and Beyond” Opening Reception

March 15, 2025
Affordable Art Fair Spring 2025

March 20, 2025
ICP PhotoSLAM: Spectacle

March 20, 2025
The Birthday Episode (Ep 28)

March 21, 2025
“Purpose” Broadway Review

March 25, 2025
“Wine In the Wilderness” Review

March 25, 2025
March 2025 Recap

April 1, 2025
vanessa german: GUMBALL—there is absolutely no space between body and soul

April 3, 2025
Mwinga Sinjela’s “Grasslands” Solo Exhibition

April 8, 2025
Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney

April 9, 2025
“Superfine” Exhibition Preview

April 24, 2025
“Rashid Johnson: A Poem For Deep Thinkers” at the Guggenheim

April 25, 2025
“The Swamp Dwellers” Review

April 26, 2025
Black Zine Fair 2025

May 1, 2025
April 2025 Recap (and a May Preview!)

May 3, 2025
‘Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole’ at New York Theatre Workshop

May 3, 2025
Art Like Me: Fly meet Swag meet Drip

May 4, 2025
Zhailon Levingston’s Encore of “Wonderful Town”

May 7, 2025
‘Guanahani’ by Neka Cecilia Knowles

May 8, 2025
Toyin Ojih Odutola: ‘Ilé Oriaku’ at Jack Shainman Gallery

May 9, 2025
NYC Art Week: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

May 9, 2025
‘Superfine’ at the Met

May 10, 2025
‘Ekklesia’ by Sophia Victor Opening Reception

May 17, 2025
“Goddess” Review: Public Theater Premiere

May 20, 2025
May Recap + June Preview

June 1, 2025
‘Ceremonies In Dark Old Men’ starring Norm Lewis

June 2, 2025
‘BOOP! The Musical’ starring Jasmine Amy Rogers

June 4, 2025
‘Chiaroscuro’ at The Flea

June 9, 2025
Museum Mile Festival 2025

June 10, 2025
Thomas J. Price ‘Resilience of Scale’

June 11, 2025
‘Jack Whitten: The Messenger’ at MoMA

June 16, 2025
‘BOWL EP’ at Vineyard Theatre

June 18, 2025
Fem Queen Honors at the Apollo

June 19, 2025
Black Fashion Talks: Robin Givhan on Virgil Abloh

June 23, 2025
‘Open Call: Portals’ at The Shed

June 26, 2025
Breakin’ NYC: Off-Broadway Review

June 28, 2025
‘The Gospel at Colonus’ at The Little Island

July 16, 2025
Uptown Shakespeare: Classical Theatre of Harlem’s ‘Memnon’

July 20, 2025
Zoraobi Studios Grand Opening

July 26, 2025
Tituss Burgess in ‘Oh, Mary’

July 29, 2025
June/July Recap + August Preview

August 5, 2025
“Aunties” by Fitgi Saint-Louis

August 11, 2025
“Get Your Ass In the Water and Swim Like Me” (Is Back!)

August 17, 2025
Harlem Week 2025

August 17, 2025
Self-Portrait Project Pop-Up

August 20, 2025
[Get Ready To] Fall For Dance

August 22, 2025
Escape from Planet Brooklyn: Getting Duped By A Fort Greene Music Festival

August 23, 2025
On ‘Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club’

August 26, 2025
we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism

August 27, 2025
The Free Black Women’s Library x ‘Lorna Simpson: Source Notes’

August 27, 2025
August Recap + September Preview

September 2, 2025
Hank Willis Thomas ‘I Am Many’

September 5, 2025
50 Favorites from The Armory Show 2025 [PHOTOS]

September 5, 2025
Review: ‘The Brothers Size’

September 10, 2025
Gaza Biennale – New York Pavilion

September 20, 2025
Review: ‘Saturday Church’ at NYTW

September 27, 2025
Fall For Dance Festival 2025

September 27, 2025
Review: ‘Mexodus’

October 1, 2025
‘Black History Is For Everyone’ by Brian Jones

October 1, 2025
September Recap + October Preview

October 1, 2025
Isaiah Tate ‘Flowers’

October 4, 2025
The Art of Khari Turner in ‘We The Music’

October 4, 2025
Derek Fordjour ‘Nightsong’ [Los Angeles]

October 11, 2025
Review: ‘HEAUX CHURCH’

October 24, 2025
An Evening With Lorna Simpson

October 28, 2025
Art on Paper New York 2025

November 2, 2025
October Recap + November Preview

November 4, 2025
‘La Fille Du Régiment’ at Met Opera

November 12, 2025
NBT Panel: Reflections from Our Elders

November 13, 2025
Review: ‘This World of Tomorrow’ with Tom Hanks

November 14, 2025
53rd Annual AUDELCO Awards

November 17, 2025
Mic’D at MIRS: Russell E.L. Butler & Lovie

December 6, 2025
Review: ‘The Gospel of Oz’ New York Premiere

December 7, 2025
Re-Encountering Nazareth Hassan in ‘BOWL EP’ and ‘Practice’

December 19, 2025
Grasping At Euphoria: Misery, Company, and Virality

February 17, 2026
28 Days of Black Art!

February 18, 2026
Black Star Reviews – 2nd Anniversary!

February 18, 2026
Black Star Reviews Turns 2

April 10, 2026
Review: ‘The Festival In Da Back’

April 11, 2026
Aleshea Harris’s ‘Is God Is’

April 14, 2026
‘The Sight Unseen’ Film Premiere

April 19, 2026
‘Proof’ on Broadway with Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle

April 22, 2026
August Wilson’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

April 24, 2026
‘Windfall’ at Steppenwolf

April 25, 2026
Schomburg Centennial Gala

April 30, 2026
Buunni Coffee’s South Bronx Roasting Room

April 30, 2026
📺 Episode 29 – ‘Is God Is’ Film Review ★★★★★

May 1, 2026
📺 Episode 30 – ‘Proof’ Broadway Review ★★★

May 9, 2026
August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone returns to Broadway

May 15, 2026
📺 Episode 31 – ‘Windfall’ World Premiere ★★★★

May 16, 2026
📺 Episode 32 – ‘Joe Turner’s Come & Gone’ Broadway Review ★★★★★

May 22, 2026
Tony Nominated ‘Best Play’: The Balusters

May 22, 2026
Library Budget Rally at NYC City Hall

May 26, 2026
Firelei Báez: feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertainty

May 27, 2026
Eisa Davis’s ||: GIRLS :|| ||: CHANCE :|| ||: MUSIC :||

May 28, 2026
📺 Episode 33 – ‘Mexodus’ Off-Broadway Review ★★★

May 29, 2026
Interview: Harlem AD70 Candidate Conrad Blackburn

May 31, 2026
📺 Episode 35 – ‘The Balusters’ Broadway Review ★★★

June 5, 2026
Harlem Mystery Mail (Series) — FINAL UPDATE 6/28

June 12, 2026
📺 Episode 36 – ‘GIRLS CHANCE MUSIC’ Off-Broadway Review ★★★★

June 12, 2026
Interview: Harlem AD70 Candidate Jordan J.G. Wright

June 19, 2026
📺 Episode 38 – Firelei Báez Exhibition Reflection

June 26, 2026
📺 Episode 39 – ‘The Sight Unseen’ Film Review

July 3, 2026
‘clinamen’ at Park Avenue Armory

July 9, 2026
📺 Episode 40 – ‘An Evening with Lorna Simpson’

July 10, 2026
‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Review

July 13, 2026
📺 Episode 41 – ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Review

July 17, 2026
📺 Episode 42 – clinamen

July 23, 2026
‘Salt Life’ by Neka Cecilia Knowles

July 26, 2026
‘Shifters’ Review

July 28, 2026
📺 Episode 43 – ‘Shifters’ Review

July 31, 2026
Shay Mess, ‘Echoes of Light’

August 3, 2026
📺 Episode 44 – Rashid Johnson, as told by the Guggenheim

August 7, 2026
Open Call: FITO

August 13, 2026
Open Call: HUMAN

August 13, 2026
📺 Episode 45 – 3 Questions with the cast of HUMAN

August 15, 2026
📺 Episode 46 – 5 Questions with the HUMAN creative team

August 18, 2026