Virtual Entertainment #253


https://www.vogue.com/article/on-the-podcast-bhavitha-mandava

In this issue: Japanese Artist Celebrates Their Rescue Cat With Endearing Traditional-Style Paintings; A New ‘Melancholy Dane’ Is Now a Part of a South Asian Dynasty in Riz Ahmed’s ‘Hamlet’; ‘Firebird’ Finds Its Wings Again at Dance Theater of Harlem; On the Complexities of Navigating Indigenous Life in a Relentlessly Modern World; Eritrean Artist Nebay Abraha Explores Migration and Belonging; The Peruvian Indigenous Artist Bringing Amazonian Traditions Into Contemporary Art; Is This the Mexican Restaurant New York Has Been Waiting For?; British Vogue’s March Cover Star—and Impressions From Dior; Mamadou Dia on Taking Charge of the Senegalese Narrative; Meet Berkeley’s New Poets Laureate — a Kindergarten Teacher and 2 High School Freshmen

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Virtual Entertainment #252


http://newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/06/kia-damons-audacious-florida-cooking

In this issue: Colorado South Asian Artist Collective Celebrates First Anniversary; Live Your Gold Rush Fantasy With S.F.’s $50,000 Rare Coin Scavenger Hunt on April 25th; From 5th Avenue to Seattle Public: Meet Seattle Theater’s Go-To Set Designer; U.S Musical Blues in the Night Premieres in Johannesburg; Rising Painter Hilda Palafox Is Reimagining Mexican Muralism for the 21st Century; Method Man Turns His Eyeball Inside Out: Eddie Otchere’s Best Photograph; Ysabelle Cheung Puts Asian Women Front and Centre in Debut Short Story Collection; Lionel Boyce on Space, Fear and ‘Project Hail Mary’; Jessica Kirby Redefines Black Art Through Dreamlike Storytelling ; Kia Damon’s Audacious Florida Cooking

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Virtual Entertainment #251

https://www.forbes.com/sites/yjeanmundelsalle/2026/02/20/this-singaporean-photographer-chases-light-across-continents/

In this issue: A ‘Hospital’ for Art Expands What Is Worth Preserving; This Singaporean Photographer Chases Light Across Continents; Meet the Puerto Rican Dance Organization Keeping Bomba Alive; Tony Leung Befriends a Ginkgo Tree in Ildikó Enyedi’s Venice Breakout; Black Creativity as Living History at Santa Barbara’s Elevate Gallery; Pan Dulce Master Class Invites Bakers To Take a Bite of Mexican Tradition and Culture; Rihanna Confirms That She's Back In The Studio; How Yerin Ha Became the Belle of Bridgerton's Ball; Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens; Fast-Rising Sculptor Yuko Mohri Wins $50,000 Calder Prize

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Virtual Entertainment #250

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13986545/afropop-review-art-of-contemporary-africa-gallery-minnesota-st-project-sf

In this issue: As a Girl, Watching Alvin Ailey Was a Revelation. Now She’s in Charge.; San Francisco Gets a Brand New Gallery — With a Focus on African Artists; Joshua Chuquimia Crampton's 'Anata' Heals as It Hurts; Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics;Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Brings a Quiet Revolution to Ballet; Anicka Yi Talks Joining Pace and the Future of AI and the Art World; Free Black Women’s Library Is Critical Cultural Hub for Inclusive Literature; Gordon Parks’ Photographs of Black Americans in the 1950s Are Essential Viewing in London; The Best Places To Visit in Japan According to Chefs and Food Experts; A Thai Fantasy About a Ghost in a (Vacuum) Machine

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Virtual Entertainment #249

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/california-mountain-unique-restaurant-21118851.php

In this issue: As a Girl, Watching Alvin Ailey Was a Revelation. Now She’s in Charge.; New Takashi Murakami Exhibit Traces Shared History Between Europe and Japan; Ramin Karimloo Will Lead New Production of 'Sweeney Todd'; Why Everyone in This Idyllic Calif. Mountain Town Eats Nepalese Food; Step Into The World of ‘Sinners’ In This New Studio Tour Exhibit; Sharjah Festival of African Literature Returns With Continent’s Leading Authors and Poets; Sneak Peek Inside the New Kansas African American Museum; In Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Dracula,’ There’s Mirth Amid the Horror;How Hyenas on Animal Planet Helped Director Marwan Hamed Craft a Street Fight Scene; Artist Lanre Olagoke Launches at Battersea’s Affordable Art Fair

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Virtual Entertainment #248

https://outliermedia.org/black-owned-art-gallery-spaces-detroit/

In this issue: How Detroit’s Black-Owned Art Galleries Are Forging New History; After Decades in the Mission, a San Francisco Cultural Landmark Shuts Its Doors; Met’s New Production of ‘Porgy and Bess’ Is the Production of Our Dreams; A Gothic Novel Haunted by South African History; Flourishing Culture: The Arts in the Philippines; Providing a Space for Indigenous Voices: 'First Peoples First' Lineup Drops; ‘Rosemead’ Review: A Mother and Her Troubled Son; These Latinx Artists Unapologetically Flip Narrative on Shame; America’s Largest Dim Sum Parlor Opens in a Former California Rite-Aid; Why There's a Giant Hand in Chile's Atacama Desert

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Virtual Entertainment #247

https://www.archdaily.com/1038962/the-centauric-heritage-equine-scale-and-mexican-monumental-architecture

In this issue: The Secrets of Indigenous Art; UN Recognizes Compas, a Haitian Music and Dance Genre That Has Marked Generations and Brought Joy; How Asian American Designers Recharged New York Fashion Week; “Literature Belongs to the Past and the Present”: Hilton Als on Jean Rhys; The Centauric Heritage: Equine Scale and Mexican Monumental Architecture; 'Soul to Soul' Captures Black American Stars’ Emotional Return to Ghana; Four South Asian Photographers Redefine Beauty, Identity, and Memory; David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art; Evelyn Araluen Wins $125,000 for ‘Politically Uncompromising’ Poetry at Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards; Crazy Rich Asians: The Musical has First Reading

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Virtual Entertainment #246

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/arts/dance/alysa-liu-olympics-figure-skating-interview.html

In this issue; Maryland Opens Arms To Welcome Artists Fleeing Trump’s DC; Mexican-American Dreamer Julissa Arce Wins Luis Leal Literary Award; Alysa Liu on Dancing Her Way to Gold: ‘The Music Carries My Body’; Trailblazing Black and Indigenous Sculptor Left Her Mark on Boston; Restored 1914 Asian American Silent Film Added to the National Film Registry; Baby Keem’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams; Could AI Drive Indigenous Knowledge Out of Fashion?; ‘One of a Kind’: Rare Mexican Cuisine Touches Down in the Bay Area; Meet the Poet Laureate of Minneapolis: Junauda Petrus; Ballet Black Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

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Virtual Entertainment #245

https://www.wboi.org/arts-culture/2025-06-17/inaugural-photo-exhibit-at-garrett-museum-of-art-features-new-perspectives-on-native-american-culture

In this issue: The Sugar Sphinx; Solange Launches Saint Heron Library to Preserve Black Literature and Periodicals; Meet the DJs Bringing the Pride and the Party to the Valkyries’ Ballhalla; Inaugural Photo Exhibit at Garrett Museum of Art Features New Perspectives on Native American Culture; The Art of ‘Superflat’: Takashi Murakami’s World Revealed; After Maduro’s Last Dance, a New Rhythm Goes Viral in Venezuela; Rochelle Jordan’s ‘Through The Wall’ Is a Love Letter To Freedom; Can a Successful Pop Star Truly Carve Out a Place in the Sci-Fi World?; The Best Tamales in the Bay Area; ‘Mexodus’ Tells an Underground Railroad Story You’ve Probably Never Heard

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Virtual Entertainment #244

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13981068/fijiana-welcome-to-the-bay-indo-fijian-rap-video

In this issue: Celebrating Black Future Archives: An Open Mic/Archival Tribute to Black Writers and Poets - Feb 26!; Paradise Blue Brings the Musical Drama; What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz; Venezuelan Ska Band Desorden Público Knocks It Out of the Park at Home Run Dugout; Sex, Death and Betrayal: This North Korean Movie Shows Things Audiences Have Never Seen Before; Cooking for Her Kids Led This Oakland Restaurateur To Launch a ‘Hidden Gem’ Soul Food Spot; Fijiana’s ‘Welcome to the Bay’ Sparks Questions About Our Cultural Melting Pot; The Power of Black Literature; Lanza Atelier Says It’s Time To Bring 'New' Mexican Architecture to the Table;Hand Shape in Indonesian Cave May Be World’s Oldest Known Rock Art

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Virtual Entertainment #243

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2019/05/13/an-eritrean-chef-finds-community-and-support-at-her-restaurant-shewhat-in-berkeley

In this issue: A New Art Exhibit Examines 50 Years Since the Vietnam War and Looks Forward With Hope; 2 Black American Love Stories Center in Short Detroit Opera Premiere; How 'Fully Sikh' Author Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa’s Life Was Shaped by Slam Poetry; Masaomi Yasunaga Pushes the Limits of Ceramics, One Sculpture at a Time; Artist Eirini Linardaki on Her Work in Cameroon; The Rise of Indigenous Comic Books; An Eritrean Chef Finds Community at Her Berkeley Restaurant, Shewhat; 'DREAMGIRLS' Will Return to Broadway in 2026, Directed and Choreographed by Camille A. Brown; Lola Teru’s 'Dating in Lagos' Invites People to Sit With Vulnerability in Nigeria’s Sin City; Dancers in Haiti Stay on Their Toes in Effort To Preserve Konpa at Home

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Virtual Entertainment #242

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018088

In this issue: With Colorful Sculptures, Artist With a Learning Disability Wins the Turner Prize; Intimate Portraits of the Nenets Capture the Faces of Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic; ‘We Can Imagine Alternatives to the Present’: Cannupa Hanska Luger on His Exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum; Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis' WARRIORS Begins Casting; In a Chilly Year for Chinese Restaurants, Jiangxi Food Was the Hot Exception; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “If More Men Read Books About Women’s Lives, Literature Could Improve Communication”; Pharrell Williams Debuts Unreleased Music With A$AP Rocky, Pusha T at Paris Fashion Week; Senegalese Artist Transforms Conakry’s Walls With Captivating Street Art; Vietnam Is Fashion’s Newest Capital—and These Are Its Most Exciting Designers; The Met’s ‘Magic Flute’ Courts Young Hearts (With a ‘6-7’ to Boot)

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Virtual Entertainment #241

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/04/grammys-2022-jon-batiste-olivia-rodrigo/629471/

In this issue: Mildred Thompson and the Case for Seeing Black Artistic Trajectories Whole; How Jon Batiste Broke Grammys Expectations; Lucila Safdie’s ‘Feminine and Surreal’ Womenswear Is Inspired by Teenage Bedrooms and Internet Lore; Culinary Monster on Culinary Class Wars Season 2, Opening His Restaurant in New York; 'Eating Ashes' Portrays a Tale of Migration, Loss and Memory; In Post-‘Revolution’ Bangladesh, a Photography Festival Questions How To Rebuild After Ruin; MoMA Honors One of This Country’s Greatest Artists: Ruth Asawa; After Eight Decades in Obscurity, Diego Rivera’s S.F. Masterpiece Is Getting Its Moment; Shanghai’s Dynamic Grand Opera House Resembles an Unfolding Fan; Tracy K. Smith Thinks Poetry Could Help Bring Us Together, if We Let It

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Virtual Entertainment #240

https://hyperallergic.com/how-takako-yamaguchi-subverts-the-seascape-moca-los-angeles/

In this issue: Premier of Epicenter - The Struggle to Bring Black Studies to Higher Education in The Bay Area; The Amazon Has Been This Peruvian Artist’s Home, Inspiration and Palette; Cambodian Sculptures Make Rare U.S. Debut at Minneapolis Institute of Art; Misty Copeland Is ‘Not Scared’ To Face a Career Beyond Dance; How Takako Yamaguchi Subverts the Seascape; How the Sari Came To Define New York; At the Detroit Institute of Arts, an Attempt to Make Connections; Slave Play Arrives in Toronto – Director Laffrenier Opens Up About Its Debut; Japan’s Top-Grossing Live Action Is A Three Hour Period Piece On Kabuki; What Is Dubai Chocolate and Why Is It Everywhere?

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Virtual Entertainment #239

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13975761/josue-rojas-recology-artwork-trash-san-francisco-story

In this issue: Josué Rojas Reuses the City’s Trash to Tell a Distinctly San Francisco Story; These Black Architects Are Helping Rebuild Altadena After the L.A. Wildfires; The Black Girl’s Guide To Travel: 5 Black Food Festivals Worth The Trip; Indigenous Art Exhibition at Denver Art Museum Celebrates Native Creativity;Inside the Worldwide Rise of France’s No. 1 Pop Star; Kwame Onwuachi Is Back in D.C. and Better Than Ever;Melvin Edwards’s Sculptures Bow Under the Weight of History; Love, Bonito And Asian American Girl Club Launch “TrailBlazer” Collaboration; Baltimore Museum of Art Will Host Amy Sherald’s Canceled Smithsonian Show; Theater to Stream: The Tony-Nominated ‘Yellow Face,’ ‘Vanya’ and More

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Virtual Entertainment #238

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/australian-indigenous-art-a-tradition-of-story-2631531

In this issue: A Trove of ‘Lost Basquiats’ Led to a Splashy Exhibition. Then the FBI Showed Up.; From ‘Sorcerer’ and Illegal Immigrant to Cannes and the Oscars: This Filmmaker’s Remarkable Path to Success; Filmmaker Mira Nair’s Approach to Storytelling; The Haunted Child of “Nuclear Family”; A Brown Kitchen: Why Food Writing and Recipes Benefit From Context; Foundation H Galvanises Madagascar’s Art Scene; Meshell Ndegeocello Could Have Had Stardom but Chose Music Instead; Australian Indigenous Art Is Having a Moment. Here’s How It Happened.; What a Food Trip to Ghana Taught Me About My Black American Identity; Brothers Discover the Power of Friendship and Family in Beautifully Honest ‘Hymn’

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Virtual Entertainment #237

https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/09/23/this-public-sculpture-in-taiwan-looks-different-every-hour-of-the-day/

In this issue: Hellscapes in Japanese Art: From Jigoku-zōshi to Naraku; ‘Like Martha’s Vineyard, if the Mexicans Took It Over’ Willy Chavarria Is Selling a Version of Americana That Asks, Who Belongs in These Clothes?; Reinstalled Indigenous Art Galleries Offer a Welcome Shift in Perspective; ‘Saturday Church’ Review: Saving Fabulous Souls to Sia’s Music; ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ and ‘Nuremberg’ Raise the Question; Decolonizing Language by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Review – Last Words of a Literary Giant; African Restaurant Week Wants to Expand the Bay Area’s Palate; This Public Sculpture in Taiwan Looks Different Every Hour of the Day; Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Is the Highest-Grossing Anime Ever; Why Is Bob Marley’s ‘Legend’ Still Reggae’s No. 1 Album?

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Virtual Entertainment #236

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/books/review/positive-obsession-susana-m-morris.html

In this issue: Configurations in Black: A Stateless Rwandan Refugee Makes Art out of His Experience; ; India’s Colonial Past Revealed Through 200 Masterful Paintings; 3 of Mexico’s Lesser-Known Archaeological Wonders; Jabari Banks Closes Bel-Air With His Debut EP 'Ultra’; Remembering Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroonian Curator Due to Lead the 2026 Venice Biennale; “Reimagine” by Laura Gauch: A Fashion Story in a Dance Studio; A New Musical Revisits the Bay Area’s Apocalyptic Orange Sky Day; ‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at Octavia E. Butler; Japan Art Festival 2025: Paris Gets a Japanese Art Fix

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Virtual Entertainment #235

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/11/disappearing-chilean-art/

In this issue: How Tate’s Emily Kam Kngwarray Show Is Revealing the Fraught Market Dynamics of Aboriginal Art; Why This South African Photographer Prefers To Be Called a ‘Visual Activist’; In ‘King Hedley II,’ the Bard of Black Life Asks if One Man Can Rebuild; 5 Previously Unheard Recordings of Louis Armstrong at the BBC Studios; ‘Disappearing’ Chilean Art; New Nonfiction from Native American Writers; Documentary on ’80s Vietnamese-American New Wave Scene Opens Asian Film Festival in New Orleans; Opera Is Still Obsessed With the Suffering of Women;  ‘A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts’ Serves Horror and Chinese Cuisine in Animated Anthology; Christina Kimeze’s Freewheeling Paintings Capture the Joy of Rollerskating

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Virtual Entertainment #234

https://observer.com/2025/04/artist-interview-frieda-toranzo-jaeger-bortolami-impersonal-unity-tools/

In this issue: Frieda Toranzo Jaeger Is Challenging the Ideologies of Late-Stage Capitalism With Rage and Ritual; 'It’s the Wars Now': Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal on Why Their Othello Is Made for Today; Basquiat’s ‘Sábado por la Noche (Saturday Night)’ Sells for Over $14M; A Story of Family’s Grief Set Against Political Upheaval in Egypt; In Hong Kong, an Artist Is Crafting a Ceramic Garden; Native American Singer-Songwriter Sierra Spirit Comes Home to Play Norman Music Festival; A Closer Look at Brooklyn Museum’s “Solid Gold” Exhibition; Seattle Black Film Festival: Amplifying Black Storytelling and Experiences; One of SF’s Most Unique Dining Experiences Is a 1920s-Themed Supper Club; Saheem Ali Brings Kenyan Coast Heat to Broadway in New Musical ‘Goddess’

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