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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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Retrospective of his art the Brooklyn Museum through September 20, 2009.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Artist Glen Ligon channels Zora Neale Hurston.

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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.

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Designers Daniça Lepen and and Jacques van der Watt, from Johannesburg label Black Coffee, were awarded the Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art and Culture 2009 in Berlin. (This video, which gives a glimpse of their work, is by TRACE TV) Each year the German organizers honor South African artists working in different disciplines. Last [...]

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The art of Andrea Geyer.

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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 [...]

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