March 20, 2025 - Fabiola Jean-Louis, Naveen Kumar, and the Alvin Ailey Revelations Celebration

Fabiola Jean-Louis, a visual activist working in photography, paper textile design, and sculpture joins The Culture Show  to talk about her solo exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum “Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom.” The exhibition features a large amount of original commissions from the Haitian artist, crafted from paper pulp, mineral stones, shells, metals, glass, and other materials.  The exhibition is on view through May 25th. To learn more, go hereFrom there, Washington Post theater critic Naveen Kumar joins The Culture Show to talk about his recent column, “What happens when a theater critic can’t sit down?Finally, Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga, founding artistic director of OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center and Nicole Taney, the artistic director at Celebrity Series, preview  “Ailey Revelations Celebration.” With the help of Celebrity Series the dance theater group will be in Boston to facilitate four free community events –Roxbury, Dorchester, Hyde Park and Mattapan–teaching  locals dance moves from Alvin Ailey’s  legendary performance “Revelations.”  To learn more go here.