Arts and Culture
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Creative Arts Night at Murphy, June 12th
Join the Murphy Institute for our first Creative Arts Night, to be held on the 18th Floor of the Murphy Institute, located at 24 W. 43rd St., on June 12th from 6-8pm. Hosted by Murphy Institute Blog Arts & Culture Editors, the event will feature panelists Randal Horton and Matt Sedillo, whose work was recently…
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Mind Graffiti
Photo Credit: Ankhe Tomer By Jed-Rene Tuliao I have a tendency to think and write in a stream of consciousness when it comes to poetry and short stories. I have wanted to write something like Mind Graffiti (below) for a couple of years now. It was like a huge itch in the back of my mind and…
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“Prepare Yourself for Great Things”: Introducing Matt Sedillo
Matt Sedillo is a poet, worker and artist living in Los Angeles. His book of poems “For What I Might Do Tomorrow” was released in 2010 by Caza De Poesia. Here, the two time national slam poet answers some questions posed by Arts and Culture co-editor Samina Shahidi. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/v/hQUAxBr1Kco?start=0&end=63&w=560&h=315] The poem “The Devil” by…
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An Rong Xu’s “The Chinese Americans”
Photo: An Rong Xu, The Chinese Americans Photographer An Rong Xu’s series “The Chinese Americans” connects the experiences of immigrant Americans by threading together the narratives of Asian Americans across several cities in the United States. In the essay that accompanies this New York Times feature, the artist writes that these pieces are reflections on identity. Her childhood in Queens was shaped in…
