‘Is Cynthia Your Real Name?’ and Other Weird Comments

Posted on April 2, 2015May 9, 2015 by Cynthia Cheng Mintz

The now-cancelled #racetogether campaign at American Starbucks locations had me thinking. Ethnic issues aren’t something that I think about on a daily basis – it’s not something that really “affects” me all that often. However, once in a while, things do happen. As I’ve noted in the past, it almost always comes from women of […]

Now’s The Time: Jean-Michel Basquiat Retrospective at the AGO

Posted on February 10, 2015May 9, 2015 by Lynn Burshtein

By the age of just 20, street graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat had already taken the New York art scene by storm. This was the early 1980s and it must have helped that he had made friends with Andy Warhol and other pop-culture artists of the day (Madonna, Blondie). But Basquiat was a ground-breaking artist on […]