diaspora

For Prospect.6 New Orleans, the artist crafts a vision of the Haitian diaspora through the history and resilience of Louisiana’s ancient cypress trees

Across spaces in London, authors, artists and collectives from southwest Asia, north Africa and the wider diaspora fuse storytelling and performance to preserve personal histories

In a time of heightened vulnerability, new media lends itself to the Arab diaspora, reconstructing ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost

At Auto Italia, London, a film by Invernomuto and Jim C. Nedd traces the history of Afro-Colombian sound systems

At London's Cell Project Space, the artists' timely new commissions explore the potency of intimate gestures and simple actions 

A public art exhibition by the artist whose life was claimed by the Grenfell Tower Fire is a salve for a wounded borough

From the art of opacity to Joan Didion on race and the problem of good intentions: what to read this weekend