[ad_1] New paintings by Filipino-American artist Opal Mae Ong. Based in Brooklyn, Ong’s work contains a deep reverence for the otherworldly, combining the remnants of ancestral knowledge with speculative visions to form a kind of personal myth-making. The title of their latest series, “Always Were”, is intentionally fragmentary suggesting a temporal and grammatical ambiguity that […]
RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who …
[ad_1] Gladys Mae West was born in rural Virginia in 1930, grew up working on a tobacco farm, and died earlier this month a celebrated mathematician whose work made possible the GPS technology most of us use each and every day. Hers was a distinctively American life, in more ways than one. Seeking an escape […]