Essence Magazine:
By Felice León ·Updated November 17, 2023
There is an “X” that hangs in front of The Metropolitan Opera House’s façade. The “X” is a banner, created by artist Glenn Ligon, where a black bold ‘X’ (of Malcolm X) is affixed a “field of hand-stenciled dates that mark the arrival of enslaved Africans in America,” as he describes it. The art is essentially an advertisement for the opera,
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