Here are few photos from the last few months. Scroll down to the bottom to see how the New York Post, and New Yorkers, responded to the New Year's Eve flub by Mariah Carey. Poor Mimi!
| One of Kerry James Marshall's paintings, now on exhibit at his Met Breuer show, Kerry James Marshall: MASTRY |
| Profs. Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, who co-edited (in record time) the superbly executed Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History (Rutgers UP, 2016) at the public launch last fall |
| At a gallery on the Upper East Side |
| Outside the Grove Street PATH station, Jersey City |
| The Delmar Loop in St. Louis |
| Muslim Voices, a Rutgers-Newark AAAS- sponsored program led by Prof. Zain Abdullah, of Temple University, at the Newark Museum |
| One of the last episodes of this season of Empire, featuring a reproduction of Edgar Degas' "Miss LaLa at the Cirque Fernando," the subject of my story Counternarratives "Acrobatique" |
| Festive trees in the Manhattan Financial District |
| Lower Manhattan, from the offices of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council |
| Artists at the offices of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's residency site |
| Zuccotti Park, where Occupy NYC took place, now glitzed up (again) |
| Poet, essayist and editor Saeed Jone speaking on behalf of his former teacher, Rigoberto González, who was being honored at Poets House |
| My amazing colleague Rigoberto González |
| In the WTC Westfield Shopping walkway, with a giant telescreen in the background |
| On the phone, in the WTC |
| Newark's gentrifying Halsey Street |
| New buildings in Newark |
| Vintage car on campus |
| The cast of Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin, at the Met Opera |
| Post-SantaCon Santa, almost on the rails |
| At the Rutgers-Newark MFA holiday reading, party and book exchange |
| Tonya Foster and David Barclay Moore at the book launch for Robert F. Reid-Pharr's Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016) |
| Robert F. Reid-Pharr (r) and his editor at book launch for his new scholarly book Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016) |
| New York Post: "The Plot Against Mariah" |