Chakaia Booker and Essye Kempler on sculpture, printmaking and the legacy of Robert Blackburn

“I just fell under [her] spell,” Victoria Sancho Lobis, director at Pomona’s Benton Museum of Art, said, explaining why she invited Black artist Chakaia Booker for an artist talk. On Nov. 8, Essye Klempner, director of programming and partnerships at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), spoke with friend and

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‘From Baltimore to Broadway’: How Bryan Terrell Clark persevered to stage and film stardom

Actor Bryan Terrell Clark was a guest speaker at a forum hosted by Scripps College in the Garrison Theater this past weekend. A seasoned actor, Clark is best known on the stage for playing George Washington in the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” as well as Marvin Gaye in “Motown: The Musical” and Cory in “Fences” opposite Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett at the Pasadena Playhouse.

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Being reel: ‘West Side Story’ (2021) is a remake that succeeds at all the wrong things

Despite recent praise, the 2021 remake of “West Side Story” is not that revolutionary of a film, argues film columnist Adam Osman-Krinsky PO ’25.

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