An Excerpt from "City of Women II" 

On October 28, 2021, Helga Davis, the Gardner's Visiting Curator of the Performing Arts, convened an intimate evening of music, poetry, and fashion inspired by questions posed in "Titian: Women, Myth & Power." This remarkable event included Helga’s recitation of a new poem by Claudia Rankine, celebrated author of poetry and plays, co-founder of The Racial Imaginary Institute, and Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.
The 2021 poem “Among the Undresses after Hortense Spillers” was conceived, in Rankine’s words, “as a collision between Titian’s painting Diana and Acteon and the essay by Hortense J. Spillers entitled 'Interstices: A Small Drama of Words.'”
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