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Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series

Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series

$15.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to produce work that was politically oriented, rooted in the Black experience, and written for the Black community. Engaging with fiction, music, drama, and poetry in his texts, he challenged the dominance of the Western art-historical canon and charged Black…