Tavia Nyong’o

Mar 19, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Tavia Nyong’o

My first encounter with Cecilia Gentili blew me away. The Argentinian-American artist and advocate was giving a performance lecture at an exhibition of work by one of her children, artist Joseph Liatela, at George Segal Gallery in Montclair, New Jerseyin 2022.

Nov 14, 2023 | spikeartmagazine.com | Tavia Nyong’o

Sharpening My Tools: Ligia Lewis Ligia Lewis choreographs degree zero. With evasive manoeuvres on darkened stages, she and her dancers grapple and joust with deft athleticism, resisting the arrest of the Black body in motion. Critic and theorist Tavia Nyong’o caught up with Lewis to discuss her recently completed trilogy, the Movement for Black Lives, and the stakes of her fugitive dramaturgy.

Apr 18, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Tavia Nyong’o

Content warning: This article discusses unspeakable evil and shocking depravity, both of which go unpunished. It also contains plot spoilers. It is 1791, Louisiana. A white creole slaveholder named Louis falls under the tooth of a vampire named Lestat. So Anne Rice begins the story in her 1976 classic gothic thriller, Interview with the Vampire. Now, AMC ingeniously updates Rice’s original conceit with its new television show.