Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews
Emory Douglas
"We were changing the mindsets of people. You had people who disagreed with us, what we were about, but wanted to set up breakfast programs, to do alternative schools. They were inspired by and beginning to implement those programs, transforming thinking, the mindset. That was the power of the Black Panther Party."
Peter Coyote
“In 1962 the Cuban missile crisis occurred… 14 of us… raised the money… bought two old clunker cars… and we drove to Washington and we did a three-day fast in front of the White House… we made the above the fold in the New York Times… Kennedy… invited us into the White House. First time in history protesters had been invited in the White House.”
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg
Interview: “That night was pretty much our first date, and it was with my dad and ten of my best friends.”
Wayne Thiebaud, The Unknown Thiebaud: Passionate Printmaker, SebArts
By Tamsin Spencer Smith
PRESUMED GUILTY
The story of how reputation and custom failed to protect two Americans falsely accused of stealing cultural patrimony.
By Matt Gonzalez
Hillary Olcott
Interview: "They are not simply art items. They are cultural items that have deep meaning within their communities. And they are inextricably linked to their makers and their communities that they were working in and with...”
