As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, the writer and musician Greg Tate evokes a time and place he calls “Original Brooklyn: the radically Black BK of haute culture and avant-cult leaders.”  More

Intervening in discussions about gentrification and placemaking, cultural activist Roberto Bedoya champions the creative resilience found in communities of color—and exemplified by the Chicano practice of Rasquachification—to suggest “placekeeping” as a strategy for advancing racial justice goals.  More

Long after Burma’s government made peace with other ethnic minorities that fought against its former military junta, the mostly Christian Kachin community remains at war with the Burmese army. Photographer Diana Markosian portrays a wide scope of Kachin life in these striking images from Burma’s besieged north.  More

Frequenting his favorite London pubs, the English artist Paul Davis asked Scottish friends and strangers what they thought about the impending referendum on independence from the United Kingdom. He matched their responses to limned images of a few great Scots, lending some historical heft and a touch of ventriloquism to the project.  More

In this episode of Forms of Life, Nato Thompson speaks about the harsh conditions faced by workers in Abu Dhabi.  More