… was performed at Tokyo's Shintomi theater in 1879, in the wake of a visit by President Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's visit touched off a vogue for the foreign; Kabuki theater, with its …
… for the European modernists and my Brooklyn homeboy Jean-Michel Basquiat. Yet despite these great influences, in the United States and … protest. I am inspired every day by groundbreaking artists such as Basquiat, Kara Walker, Wangechi Mutu, Simone Leigh, Romare Bearden, and …