Literary magazines have been at the center of a black transnational cultural renaissance. This is not where I intended to end up when I first encountered Ethiopia (Awakening), 1921—a sculpture by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), an important artwork created at the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance—at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. The sculpture was in the part of the exhibition titled The Witch’s Cradle, featuring artists that “were close to the dominant avant-garde movements of their time.”…read more
Black literary surrealism