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“Selections from Sudan, courtesy of the Hindiyeh Museum of Art in Jordan, exhibits a distinguished collection of contemporary Arabic art from the start of the 20th century to the present, with frequent new acquisitions from established and emerging artists.“

Check out these phenomenal art pieces, as well as a variety of new poems, short stories, and essays, in Issue 19 of The Common!

“Pretty much everyone hated my work when I made it, except for feminists,” the artist Martha Rosler said, sitting in the living room of her house and studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. “I’m used to a minimum 10-year lag before anyone has anything good at all to say about anything I’ve done.”

We're wrapping up our launch week with a bang: acclaimed journalist Aatish Taseer's powerful essay "We Shall Be a Country with No History" explores his perception of race in America, and is a definite must-read! Don't miss it in the link above.

"It was black American writing, and the black American experience more generally, that first alerted me to the presence of history in America. It made the TV-prepared reality I inhabited less flat; it was my first intimation of something tragic and complex at the heart of American life; and, far from turning me away from the society, it made the place more familiar."

"It was an honor working with MTA Arts & Design on Beacons to have my artwork now become a permanent part of the subway system that I have been using for the past 30 years since I first moved to New York," Gatson told Gothamist. "Beacons is my way of thanking the Bronx for the inspiration it has given to me, to these eight giants of their respective fields, and to the city in general." 

Don't miss the exclusive, online-only recording of Ananda Lima's Issue 17 poem "Translation," up on our website today!

Want more Issue 17 content? Pass some time this summer by listening in on this exclusive recording of Jennifer Jean's poem "Malibu Beach."

At TC, Madison Davis's Issue 16 essay "Land Not Theirs" was an instant favorite. Relive the piece through an exclusive, online-only audio recording, available now! Don't miss it in the link above.