Winter Talks: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at MoMA PS1
Scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor delivers a talk at MoMA PS1 exploring race, freedom, and multiracial democracy in America.
Why we picked this
One of the sharpest voices on race and inequality in America, now at one of New York's most boundary-pushing art institutions -- this is the kind of pairing that makes the talk feel different from the book.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor brings her incisive analysis of race, housing, and political economy to MoMA PS1’s Winter Talks series. Taylor, a Princeton professor and author of Race for Profit and From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, has become one of the most essential voices on how racial inequality structures American life.
Her work traces how private market solutions to public crises — from housing to healthcare — consistently deepen the very disparities they claim to address. At PS1, expect a talk that bridges the scholarly and the urgent, grounded in history but aimed squarely at the present.
The Winter Talks series at PS1 pairs thinkers with an audience accustomed to encountering ideas in unexpected forms — a fitting setting for Taylor’s work, which consistently challenges comfortable frameworks.