A short film documenting Ethiopian musician Hailu Mergia's life as the leader of the Walias Band in the 1970, his immigration to the United States and his subsequent re-emergence as a performer in 2014.

IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia

In a Brooklyn studio, acclaimed Pakistani-born artist Salman Toor is at work on a new figurative painting that’s going to be shown alongside canvases by art historical heroes like Johannes Vermeer at the Frick Madison in New York City.