“Stop picking up black babies [for pictures],” says world traveler Jessica Nabongo. As the keynote speaker for Women’s Travel Fest, an annual conference created and hosted by blogger Kelly Lewis centered on women’s space in the travel industry, Nabongo came to deliver truths. You know the photograph: some variation of a white woman holding a […]
Robert Mango’s art lives in the space where the real and the imagined converge—a place of myth-making, dream-making, and surrealist logic. From his formative years in Chicago, he stood out at the School of the Art Institute, where he quickly became, as he puts it, “the darling of the teachers there” because he had “a […]
A new player in the cultural and creative industries has officially stepped onto the scene, aiming to bridge and fractalize the often disparate worlds of art, branding, and business. Avant Management, a boutique firm based in New York City, celebrated its official launch a few Friday nights ago with a private, invitation-only event at the […]
