Clip of Shonibare from TV series, Art 21 (William Kentridge also stars). See also this profile of Shonibare in The New York Times. A retrospective of his work opens at the Brooklyn Museum this week.
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negritude
Posted in art, tagged Aime Cesaire, art, exhibitions in New York, film, Greg Tate, Leopold Senghor, Music, Negritude, photography on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Exhibition (till July 25, 2009) at Exit Art in Manhattan on the 20th black arts and political movement. Curated by New Yorkers Papo Colo, Tânia Cypriano, Rose Myriam Réjouis, Franklin Sirmans and Greg Tate. Includes a party on June 18 (7 till 11pm) with Baye Kouyaté and Les Tougarakes, Dallam-Dougou, and DJ Turmix, and a [...]
‘Africa as muse’
Posted in Africa is a Country, art, tagged art, galleries, New York City, Signs Taken for Wonders on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
sister, sister
Posted in art, tagged Algeria, art, BAM, Islam, MoCADA, Morocco, Muslim Voices, Safaa Erruas, woman, women and Islam, Zoulikha Bouabdellah on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Paris-based Zoulikha Bouabdellah (born in Moscow of Algerian parents), seen in a video above talking about her work at the Brooklyn Museum in 2007 (as part of the “Global Feminisms” exhibition), is one of six artists in “Perspectives: Women, Art & Islam” (going till September 13, 2009), an exhibition opening next Thursday, June 4, at [...]
‘I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background’
Posted in art, tagged African-Americans, American artists, art, coloreds, Glen Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Artist Glen Ligon channels Zora Neale Hurston.
‘domestic life’
Posted in art, tagged art, Austrian Cultural Forum, gender, Islam, Muslim, Shadi Ghadirian, women, Zoulikha Bouabdellah on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the art of Shadi Ghadirian as part of exhibition and panel on “The Seen and the Hidden: [Dis]covering the Veil” at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Manhattan.
‘fabolous fictions’
Posted in art, photography, tagged art, fabolous fictions, Jasper de Beijer, photography on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jasper de Beijer, Udongo 08, 2009. Courtesy Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag “… Jasper de Beijer play[s] with reality in [his] photographs. After all, a photograph shows what is seen through the lens. However, what if that is not actually reality, but a specially constructed version of reality? … [D]e Beijer goes even further: he [...]
the 53rd Venice Biennale
Posted in art, tagged 53rd Venice Biennale, art, artists, Italy on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently the Foundation La Biennale di Venezia announced a list of over ninety artists from seventy seven countries for the fifty-third Venice Biennale’s main exhibition, titled “Making Worlds,” scheduled for June 7–November 22. The African artists included are: Georges Adéagbo (born Cotonou, Benin, 1942) Anawana Haloba (born in Livingstone, Zambia, 1978) Susan Hefuna (born in [...]
art: Cannon Hersey and Samson Mnisi
Posted in art, tagged art, Cannon Hersey, galleries, Samson Mnisi, Scene Gallery on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Scene Gallery Cannon Hersey and Samson Mnisi Works on Paper May 9th – June 10th, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday May 9th, 3 – 7pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: contact Sara Safiullah / Ra kaa Shabaka: 718-622-2201
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