Vivian Phillips

( Editor's note: As public funding for the arts continues to shrink, philanthropy and individuals are being asked to give more and more often. One locally-founded philanthropy has always valued the power of the arts and has offered generous support from the start. This month, we cede this space to Black Future CoOp Fund to offer a view on the importance of supporting the arts. )  by Andrea Caupain-Sanderson, co-architect and BFCF Interim Managing Director The Black Future Co-op Fund (BFCF)...

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by Vivian Phillips The odds are stacking up against the possibility that there will ever be another exhibit like the one mounted by the New-York Historical Society in 2005, Slavery in New York . It was a bold and, at the time, unsettling exhibition—one that did more than trace the arrival of the first Africans brought to New Amsterdam in 1627 by the Dutch West India Company. It forced visitors to confront a truth long buried beneath mythology and civic pride: for more than two centuries, New...