Darrick Rainey

Oct 28, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Robert Hennelly |Peter Noel |R.C. Baker |Darrick Rainey

∼ ∼ ∼ This article is part of a series — At 250, Who Will America Be? — reporting on threats to American democracy as we approach the nation’s Semiquincentennial, on July 4, 2026. ∼ ∼ ∼For generations, conservatives have pushed the racist myth that poverty is mainly a Black issue. The plutocrats, led by Ronald Reagan, campaigning for the presidency in 1976, reinforced this harmful trope with damaging stereotypes.

Oct 25, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson |R.C. Baker |Darrick Rainey

Mati Diop’s new documentary, Dahomey, is a dreamy little piece of observation, quietly brimming with old-school Negritude and faith in the power of objects. Her ostensible protagonists are not people, African or otherwise — they’re a set of 26 ancient Dahomian “treasures,” art pieces and artifacts, that French President Emmanuel Macron decided to repatriate to Benin in 2021.

Oct 25, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Nathaniel Bell |R.C. Baker |Darrick Rainey

It’s a shrewd move to release Conclave, a slick drama about the election of a pope, less than two weeks before the most contentious U.S. election in recent memory. Edward Berger’s tightly wound follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front is essentially a treatise on voting ethics wrapped in a legal thriller. (Suggested alternate title: 12 Angry Priests.) It’s a timely reminder that spiritual values almost always become entangled with worldly ambition.

Oct 24, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Ward Sutton |R.C. Baker |Christian Viveros-Fauné |Darrick Rainey

Amid one of the most divisive and chaotic election years in recent history, Ward Sutton brings his diamond-edged satire — often targeting conservative and right-wing politics — to the Subliminal Projects Gallery, in Los Angeles.

Jul 23, 2018 | laweekly.com | Darrick Rainey |Susan Hornik