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Kaneza Schaal is among this year’s Doris Duke Artist Award winners. With a career spanning theatre, opera, film, and more, she is an unceasing force in performance art. Schaal took a moment to speak with FF2 about her work and this award.
Doris Duke was a renowned philanthropist, using her family’s wealth to nurture projects at home and abroad.… read more.
Kimberly Akimbo is the story of a young woman desperately wanting to live. It’s a universal theme told through a charming character. It could have been so simple. Yet, Kimberly Akimbo is so much more than ‘simple’.
Kim has a disease that affects aging. Physically, she ages much faster than the general population.… read more.
Happy Black History Month 2025:
To celebrate, we are reposting some of our favorite Black Swans with names & faces everyone should know!
I had the opportunity to see Chicago-based exhibition space Wrightwood 659’s Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art that showcases the work of 17 contemporary artists about technology and art.… read more.
No doubt, it’s by coincidence that Brooklyn-based painter Amanda Wall’s latest work hails from the burgeoning artistic idiom of spiritual art so presciently described by Lisa Slominski’s article, “Spiritual Art” in February 2023. Or, perhaps it’s a phenomenon attesting to the current zeitgeist. In many ways, it mirrors a similar historical moment in the late 19th century and early 20th century in the US and Europe.… read more.
For artist Camille Eskell, the fez is laden with potent personal symbolic meaning as vast as its far-reaching mix of geographical and socio-cultural connotations.
“I often use the fez cap,” she elucidates, “as a structural base for storytelling to signify the foundation, and the patriarchal base, established by both my grandfathers.” … read more.
Rea Tajiri knew she would eventually lose her mother to dementia. What she didn’t know was how much of her mother she would find.
The unraveling of memories and intimate discoveries of her mother’s inner world that would otherwise be forgotten in a shroud of silence, come to life in Wisdom Gone Wild — an evocative, nostalgic documentary that follows Rea’s 16-year caregiving journey. … read more.