ArtsXchange Summer Exhibitions (tuesdays)

CRITIC’S PICK: The Art of Being: A Meditation of Blackness & Queerness, ArtsXchange - Featuring artists Ari Rozario, Jonathan Elijah, Valencia Washington and Emmy Marshall, this compelling exhibition is currently running at the Jack Sinclair Gallery within ArtsXChange. The show is said to be inspired by the works of the late Gloria Jean Watkins, an author, professor, theorist and social critic who wrote under the pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase). Her 1981 book ‘Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism’ is regarded as a major contribution to feminist thought and in 1992 was deemed by Publishers Weekly to be “One of the twenty most influential women’s books in the last 20 years.” - Kevin C. Madigan