Recommended reading, on the "exciting nonprofit @cara_the_org which opened in the West Village a few weeks ago." We love that @newyorkermag art editor Andrea K. Scott has recognized CARA's superb and rather inspiring bookstore! "As visitors … reach its inaugural exhibition, 'Neo Muyanga: A Mass of Cyborgs,' they encounter a bookstore. It's a fitting approach: the collaboration-minded organization, founded by the philanthropist, and former gallerist, Jane Hait, is also a publisher. (Recent co-releases include the lauded 'Last Day in Lagos,' by the photographer Marilyn Nance.) The airy shop—whose wide-ranging selection is overseen by cara’s director of public programs, the whip-smart Emmy Catedral—is an invitation to browse, to slow down and discover. Then linger with #NeoMuyanga — the South African artist and composer, making his U.S. début with an ambitious show in three multimedia parts, which encompass Pan-Africanism, Brazilian protest theatre, the legacy of Miriam Makeba, and the slave-trade backstory of the song 'Amazing Grace.' His new commission, 'Hymn to the Strange,' is an always-in-progress piece conceived with the @the_unsungcollective — a Brooklyn-based collective of Black singers, led by @tyclintonjr which performs an ongoing series of rehearsals. Dec. 10 is the next opportunity to experience what cara’s incisive executive director and chief curator — @manu_moscoso — describes as 'a call to action through sound.'" @jrh2020 @marilyn.nance @sistanance @festac77archive @notadancingbear @miriammakebafoundationofficial #cara #caratheorg #carabookstore https://www.instagram.com/p/ClzDcsTJfVf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
