Tag: Lucy McKeon

Lucy McKeon: Django and Jefferson

February 2013

Two figures challenge simple ways of thinking about slavery and agency.

Lucy McKeon: Sixty Million and More: Toni Morrison’s Beloved

October 2012

Banned Books Week: This year, one Michigan school district tried to keep Morrison’s haunting narrative out of the classroom. A writer explores how Baby Suggs and Beloved teach us what we don’t learn in school.

Lucy McKeon: The Art of Rap

July 2012

Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap explores hip hop’s past but skims over important questions about its present.

Lucy McKeon: Picasso and the “The Eternal Feminine”

March 2012

In Madrid, Lucy McKeon reviews Picasso’s “eternal feminine” exhibit, which is grouped around paintings of women, yet presupposes a male perspective.