Nola is almost immediately confronted with the reality that white people have colonized Black art spaces and become gatekeepers for what authentic expressions of Black art looks like.
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Large-scale group exhibitions of Black Art were staged at venues including the Whitechapel Gallery ("From Two Worlds," 22016) and the Chisenhale Gallery ("The Essential Black Art," 262).
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What's up Virgil Abloh, you don't employ Black art directors?
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And it gave rise to a Black Art Critic emergency.
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It's not just classical black art, if that's a thing.
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Black art is as popular as it has ever been.
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VM: What advice do you have for aspiring black art historians?
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"I wanted to situate that artwork in Black art," Thomas said.
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Much like Brooklyn itself, white people have taken over Black art.
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The Grammys have weirdly become the moral gatekeepers of Black art.
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The compartmentalization of black art, of black word, of black body.
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They each highlight the ways in which black art is inherently political.
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" I am a Black art critic who has not yet "made it.
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What are the contours of so-called black art or queer art?
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This allowed readers to stop obsessively seeking white validation for black art.
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Historically, there has just been such a sense of representation in black art.
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But integrating it well is a black art that Kia engineers pull off.
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Yet focusing on exclusion runs the risk of defining black art as a rarity.
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The Black Art Futures Fund announced the winning grantees of its inaugural funding cycle.
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"To maintain an appropriate level of differentiation is a black art," Mr. Wells said.
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Lubaina Himid is an African artist part of the Black Art movement of the 1980s.
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The art form is still mine, intimately so, in the way much black art remains.
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We hate ourselves and we prefer to see black art come from non-black bodies.
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One of the more growing arguments is that some black art is becoming too instructional.
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"We learned to tie-dye, because tie-dying was traditionally a black art," she recalled.
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"My goal was to show the true complexity of black art and culture," says the Khalil.
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When it comes to "black" art, debate what it means, but go with Ms. O'Grady's ellipsis.
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But they reflected some of our experience and the other Black art forms that we indulged in.
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By the middle of the 27s however, Black Art in Britain had all but disappeared from view.
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Public is launching with chats dedicated to tech, pop culture, LGBTQ people, and black art and literature.
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"I think a lot about being a white person participating in a black art form," she said.
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One had to think about black art with an appreciation of history and an eye for originality.
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What was the moment when you discovered post-black art, and why did it resonate with your work?
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To celebrate black art, check out these artists boldly documenting their experiences with mental illness through their work.
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What are your thoughts about the state of black art and artists, such as Kehinde Wiley, for example?
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Locke yearned for something solid: a home for black art, somewhere to nourish, protect, refine, and control it.
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Jeremy O. Harris was standing in a TriBeCa loft full of black art and the promise of money.
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Tell me more about that, do you think a lot of black art is too reactionary to struggle?
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When I think of all the "black art" being ushered in by this new era, I feel conflicted.
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I can understand Perry's desire to build his own domain in an industry that notoriously undervalues black art.
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Derek Conrad Murray's Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights is out from I.B.Tauris.
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Locke's 1925 anthology, The New Negro, functioned as a celebration of his era in black art, intellect, and society.
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I read an article the other day that said black art is now in a state of gold rush.
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The artworks are not trying to refine "Black art," or make it more palatable; they celebrate its unique tropes.
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Their unapologetically black art and activism gave me a sense of self and identity that I was sorely missing.
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G-Vectoring is an imperceptible piece of black art technology that your inner ear probably won't pick up on.
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WM: Well, but we have had this version of black art, but it was cordoned off as black music.
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Dean, an African-American collector who owns a substantial amount of Black art is like a red diamond — very rare.
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KJ Freeman: HOUSING started as institutional critique in reaction to the art market, and the current value of black art.
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I think a black art gallery that shows only artists of color is a symbol of our feelings toward gentrification.
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But it included no black art or curatorial participation, and served to confirm race-based exclusion as an institutional norm.
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"I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period," he said.
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In 2005, Senator Obama attended a Chicago gala celebrating black art and science at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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This year's slate, which includes two performance artists and a painter, reflects the search for what's next in black art.
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This year's slate, which includes two performance artists and a painter, reflects the search for what's next in black art.
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Its effect and utility, though, as a venue for black art to be created disseminated and understood, will be its legacy.
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There's black art on the walls and a steady stream of soul tunes slipping from the speaker as you walk in.
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In 1969, Graham took a staff job with Warren Publishing, instantly becoming the first black art director in the comics industry.
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This Saturday, the Broad will host a panel discussion on Exhibiting Black Art in 1970s Los Angeles, co-presented with LACMA.
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None of this, organizers say, is to suggest that there isn't plenty of black art out there that gets wide recognition.
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Only a privileged few hail from socially engaged families committed to exposing their children to black art, history, and cultural traditions.
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AE: Could you talk a bit about your own academic and personal background, your interest in and research on post-black art?
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English is an academic who has frequently resisted notions that we can fundamentally reduce black art to narratives of injustice and strife.
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And while he was clearly inspired by black art of the past, Gambino manages to make it all sound fresh and exciting.
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This week, the Village Voice and photography, fiscal responsibility as an artist, dating Mt. Vesuvius, white critics and black art, and more.
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But some artists still saw themselves as part of the revolution even while they disagreed with creating a collective black art style.
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The abstract painter Peter A. Bradley, one of New York's original black art dealers, has known the highs and lows of both.
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At the "Who Owns Black Art?" show, she is exhibiting a sculpture of what first appears to be an ordinary silver bracelet.
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There has always been political theater; now there's Trump political theater, as he perfects the black art of turning Democrats into mincemeat.
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The message for his generation of image makers is clear: "I am trying to create a new vernacular — black art as universal."
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The message for his generation of image makers is clear: "I am trying to create a new vernacular — black art as universal."
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Eager to immerse herself in the art world, she volunteered to assist the filmmaker and pioneer of black art, Linda Goode Bryant.
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Illustration by Adam Mignanelli There are some words that belong to black art criticism: visceral, raw, unapologetic, pride, defeat, struggle, overcome, profound.
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The deeper reservation about "WPII" rewarding white soul searching above pained black art is a serious allegation, but a sort of strange one.
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It's Black History Month, but at Refinery29, we believe in celebrating Black voices, Black art, and Black women 365 days of the year.
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A three-day event provocatively titled "Who Owns Black Art?" outside of the official Art Basel fair brings this point to the fore.
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Some black art enthusiasts view these endeavors as a way to build an ecosystem that is beneficial to black artists and black consumers.
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Looking beyond Detroit, the institute's exhibition, "Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement," examines the civil rights movement's artistic impact.
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I worry that that romantic notion still clings tenaciously to old ideas about art in general, and self-taught black art in particular.
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Glover offered us what popular black art rarely is able to offer which is powerful imagery without a clear artist statement and intention.
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SB: I'd say the continuous line for me is that I've always wanted to explore more of the understated dialogues around Black art.
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The group had famously divergent opinions about what defined black art, and was not inclusive of women — Amos was the lone female member.
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The Studio Museum in Harlem, which shows contemporary black art, is paired with The Jewish Museum, whose charge is to exhibit contemporary Jewish artists.
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I love what the art young black art queenz are doing from people like 3 Dot Zine to Aurel Haize Odogbo to Kimberly Drew.
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We've seen a moral panic rise around black art before, from the reaction to the radical politics of jazz to the sexuality of blues.
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Each artist demanded to be seen and be reimagined as pivotal creative force in a system that denies black humanity, let alone black art.
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What better way to close out the month and gear up for the coming ones than with a celebration of black art and excellence?
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The placement of Black Art and Himid in the context of Basquiat and Sherman is testament to their rapid emergence in a rather staid scene.
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Heavily influenced by her hometown of Houston, Solange infused her love of Black art and deeply Southern aesthetics to create an ethereal 19-track album.
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The respectability argument is so attractive to some that nearly eight decades later it still rears its head with regard to black art and representation.
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Jackie Sibblies Drury, 37, is the author of "Fairview," a comedy-turned-confrontation that challenges the white gaze through which black art is often filtered.
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Gwyneth Paltrow became a lifestyle brand, superhero spandex took over, Broadway persevered, black art and gay culture came of age, and bingeing became a thing.
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JW: How has Black art affected your life — from whenever you started becoming interested in art up until now, as a curator and gallery owner?
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Like I said in the video, we want our black art to come from non-black bodies, because we live in a system that devalues blackness.
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Last June, the couple released the visual for "APESHIT," a stunning visual shot at The Louvre about where black art, specifically rap, is able to exist.
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"What we didn't want to do was to present one view of what Black art could be," Zoe Whitley, one of the show's curators, tells Creators.
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Though she recently tweeted that Jean-Michel Basquiat was her "first love," Drew's work shines an equal light across the wide spectrum that is Black art.
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Books of The Times The Irish writer Claire-Louise Bennett's first novel, "Pond," dabbles in a black art we don't get enough of in summertime: misanthropy.
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Now, long after Traylor's death, his creative labor is traded at high prices in markets beyond the reach of and rarely visited by black art patrons.
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Black people are not appreciated the way Black art is; and art by Black Europeans is not appreciated the same way as art by African Americans.
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How do you find ways to bear witness to what hasn't been seen while bearing witness to the fullness of what black art is and can be?
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Swift became a tableau for the rejection of white mediocrity eclipsing black art, a message most of West's black fans were happy to see brought to light.
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Throughout the gallery, the artwork of AfriCOBRA members speaks to larger threads running through Black art histories and theologies of the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa.
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We also have a proliferation of a lot of really meaningful and interesting and evocative and super, super introspective black art, where we didn't have that before.
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She has also worked as a freelance writer and editor since 2008; her writing frequently focuses on the history of black art and image practices since 1960.
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Later, he learns to use fetishized black art as a lure for white hookups: Come on over to my place and let's watch some Melvin Van Peebles.
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The way that I looked at Black art was … I would use art as a means of dialogue for myself to express a feeling or a sentiment.
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So, basically, for the last five years I had been working with and through NYC as a facilitator with an emphasis on black art and emerging black artists.
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Related: Here's Everything Awesome About the New Processing Software Turns Your Trackpad Gestures into Painterly Brushstrokes 8 Killer Media Artists Join Forces for 'The New Black' Art Show
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Lam's re-appropriation — his act of taking back what had been taken from him — is central to an understanding of the history of Black art in the Americas.
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By the time Locke curated the American Negro Exposition in Chicago in 1940, his status as one of the most prominent figures in black art was beyond question.
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FESTAC '77 was the nickname for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, a monthlong showcase of transnational black art held in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Sugarcane Magazine, started in 2006, covers art from the African diaspora, and publishes a guide to black art fairs taking place around the same time as Art Basel.
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An exhibition of Gordon Parks's photography at Harvard University's Ethelbert Cooper Gallery highlights the unique role that Kasseem Dean is attempting to carve out as collector of Black art.
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Overwhelmingly white elites have always dictated to one degree or another the look of "Black" art, despite having no right to tell her or anyone else what "Black" means.
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" A few artists called her out for seemingly belittling an important black art style, to which she responds that "there's no public art that isn't subject to public critique.
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The final episode focused on work referencing identity politics, and included a look at a movement known in the British art world of the time as, simply, Black Art.
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I'm interested less in what qualifies something as black photography, black art, black cinema, as I am in seeing what comes of agency on the part of black artists.
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But it's not that black artists and black art weren't visible at the opening: there was a parade featuring dancers in Nick Cave's Sound Suits, choreographed by Sandra Burton.
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The Post-Black art movement had female leaders who provided spaces for diverse and complex, difficult artwork, and for unresolved issues to be advanced as questions rather than assertions.
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This transgression by Glover felt intentional and like it was opening up a space for black art and artists that don't have the moral answers and can't offer upliftment.
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To show the sheer magnitude of the erasure, the group staged a counter-exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, under the title Invisible Americans: Black Art of the '1033s.
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"There has been this sense that black art, black experience, black politics are only localizable, not generalizable," says Robert Patterson, chair of the African American studies program at Georgetown University.
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The Black Art Futures Fund, which launched earlier this year and received more than 13 applications for its first round of grants, has given $15,000 to its four inaugural grantees.
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The most impressive advances, in my opinion, were the following:Neural architecture search: This uses neural networks to automate the black art of designing neural networks, and it's beginning to work.
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The journey is far from over, but the legacy of Black art in this country will forever tell the story of reverie that bleeds from one generation to the next.
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Right, in the conversation about Black art the categories are either indigenous / tribal / "primitive" art as they call it, or contemporary African art, and then you have African American art.
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But for his latest show, Trickster, at New York's Sean Kelly Gallery, Wiley breaks from this vernacular by painting an entirely new kind of model—his black art world peers.
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Four years ago in this center of black art, culture and black-owned businesses in Los Angeles, Hillary Clinton turned out long lines of excited black voters for her rally.
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"At the time I had one of the sole Tumblr art blogs that was for black art and black culture, and so people were really attracted to it," she said.
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Their work addresses the perennial issue of black women's double exclusion from male-dominated black art collectives like Spiral and AfriCoBRA as well as from the white mainstream art world.
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This is the unique claim on the truth that black art can make: It draws its energy from its embrace of hybridity, from a rejection of the illusion of American purity.
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I'm grateful to the people, especially my partner Zayn, who made me look critically at what it means to take up space in Black art forms like Jersey and Philly Club.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Monday marked one of the biggest news headlines ever for black art, when the National Portrait Gallery unveiled official paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama.
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The small number of black gallerists and curators across the industry means that, to some extent, black people do not fully own the stories that black art tells, Ms. Ferguson said.
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Related: Worship the Ceramic Booty | City of the Seekers A Painter Finds Visionary Art in Schizophrenia | City of the Seekers Gold-on-Black Art by LA's White Witch | City of the Seekers
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The style associated with Black Art began to seem angry and sloganeering in a way that just didn't fit with a world that appeared to be becoming more tolerant, diverse, and open.
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But it's worth noting that its lineage as a black art form makes it an extension of the African American community, where depression and mental health are often stigmatized to dangerous results.
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She joined the youth council of the NAACP, and was an inaugural member of an Arts and Crafts Guild with fellow teens interested in furthering the study and creation of Black art.
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As you can see, the Trap Music Museum is removing its Kodak Black art installation ... cutting ties with the rapper only days after he showed extreme disrespect to Nipsey Hussle's grieving girlfriend.
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He was also prominently featured in Three Graphic Artists, a 1971 LACMA exhibition — the museum's first show dedicated to Black art — that was a direct result of the Black Arts Council's organizing.
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From Connecticut to Seattle, Porter's artworks are becoming more visible and facilitating a broader understanding of Black art from a particular 19th-century moment when African American people were gaining greater freedoms.
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A lot of the pictures are really about me trying to disentangle my relationship to the objects, more than trying to create this kind of monolithic understanding of blackness or black art.
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Related: Divine Vessels Force Us to Break the Walls of Perception | City of the Seekers Gold-on-Black Art by LA's White Witch | City of the Seekers Kaleidoscopic Collages Reveal Real Magical Visions
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Instead of merely pointing to the absences in the Whitney's canon, the counter-exhibition allowed for a visibility of blackness and black art history, literally showing the whiteness of the Whitney by comparison.
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The program is part of Black Artstory, a Black History Month series of public art displays, talks, film screenings, and more celebrating black art and social change all along Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn.
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There was a time when political correctness in black art was linked with realist aesthetics and didacticism, but it's been widely since recognized that this stance led to the marginalization of black abstractionists.
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That's why I was so excited to get my hair woven into jumbo, gold-adorned box braids last week just in time for Afropunk (a festival in Brooklyn that celebrates Black art and culture).
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In a year where black art—and especially black film—has seen nothing short of a renaissance, Hunter Gatherer is another well-executed attempt to capture and display black people in their full complexity.
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This is how it seems in the world of black art, where, for some, the best the 'negro race' has to offer seems to derive almost exclusively from the ranks of the self-taught.
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For now, the gallery is on hiatus as she transitions living spaces, but in the interim, her carefully curated Instagram operates as Baptist's means to share Black art with an eager and engaged public.
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That's the gag: Amy Schumer is a white woman who is thoroughly tickled by her own ham-fisted attempts to engage with something she sees as opposite her, that exotic phenomenon known as Black art.
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We have deeper reverence for our pop culture icons because there is such a long history of denying the merits of Black art, appropriating our creations, and in some cases taking credit for those creations.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads How would "Soul of a Nation"—this very black art made in the 1960s to 1980s—look in a museum situated in one of the whiter areas of Arkansas?
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They also wanted to optimize the public educational potential of the painting through the development of an artist talk and a day-long symposium, led by keynote speaker and renowned Black art historian Dr. Kellie Jones.
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There is a segment of black art in this country, primarily filled with singers, comics, directors and actors, who are considered legends within our homes and are simply known and liked by the rest of society.
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Taking a leaf from the book of its Mickey-focused line, the pretty pink print features the most famous female mouse in black art scattered across the brand's Complete All Seasons, Complete Airflow and Doll carriers.
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The exhibit's layout brings attention to these questions by highlighting collectives on the first floor, organizing their gut-punching commentary by region to help show the styles and topics that influenced each city's black art scene.
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"If someone wants to do a 'black art' show and put together several of my artists who are only thematically linked only by a thread, we're going to have a conversation about that," Bellorado-Samuels says.
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In Derek Conrad Murray's book Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights, he argues that the intersectionality of sexual politics and queer identities has been essential in shaping and defining post-blackness.
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The Black School talks to Hyperallergic about the role of radical Black education and the "Black art world," in a special interview that comes on the heels of their residency and exhibition at New York's New Museum.
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In a flurry of tweets he posted before the Grammys on February 20203, he talked about the financial strain of being an artist, how it's impossible for white writers to judge black art, and education, among other topics.
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They are also reminiscent of initiatives led by the Black Panther Party, whose services included free healthcare and breakfast programs for Black people; demonstrating that Black Power activism can take many forms and that Black art is inherently political.
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The photo-sharing app is honoring Black History Month with #ShareBlackStories, its month-long initiative to feature Black art and creations while encouraging social media users everywhere to use effects, filters, and the hashtag to participate in the celebration.
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"The Other Story," a large-scale exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London in 22018, attempted to link 1980s Black Art with a longer history of the nation's artists of color, but there was precious little curatorial follow-up.
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"I was told that the older Black art handlers trained all the art handlers there," Lowry said in a 2017 interview with the CUNY's New Labor Forum, a story repeated by several other art handlers that Hyperallergic spoke with.
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The whirligigs and kinetic sculptures in Shelter: David Butler + Leslie Umberger, including a bike festooned in metal shapes, are bordered on two sides by improvisational quilts by African American women, connecting the two intuitive, community-based traditions of Southern black art.
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At the Dalton's in particular, I think it is interesting to see him surrounded by this beautiful, elevated Black art and seeing the collection the Daltons have and then questioning Mr. Dalton and the Dalton family's relationship with this art.
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The museum also makes a point to acquire works by overlooked black artists, like their recent acquisition of a painting by Ed Clark at Frieze Art Fair, and to demonstrate the importance of black art within the history of visual culture.
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Hyperallergic editor Jasmine Weber spoke to the pair about the role of radical Black education and the "Black art world," in a special interview that comes on the heels of their residency and exhibition at the New Museum in New York.
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The 1971 Whitney show — which drew considerable attention and some controversy over whether black art specialists had had enough input in the selections — included Ms. Pusey's 1970 painting "Dejygea," which was part of the Kemper show in 2017 as well.
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Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art"Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" at the Brooklyn Museum shows how black artists were galvanized during a time of social and political unrest.
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But a key moment came in the 22014s when the organizers of a major festival of black art and culture in Lagos, Nigeria, asked the British Museum for one prized item: a 220th-century ivory mask of a famous oba's mother.
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How did we get from the funereal assessment of American history below ground to the vibrant galleries on the upper floors that salute black hair, black comedy, black athletes, black scientists, black travel, black art, black body language, Chuck Berry's Cadillac?
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Titled "White Privilege II," the song is a nine-minute exploration of Macklemore's ascent to fame as a white artist in a predominately black art form and the cultural ramifications of that in the midst of the current police brutality protest movement.
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" Saar studied design before switching to collage, and Turner's film, through its inclusion of archival photographs and video, offers a poignant capsule of the 1970s art scene, the growing importance of Black art, and the cross pollination between "high art" and "craft.
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This year, Himid has made further institutional appearances at Modern Art Oxford and Spike Island in Bristol, and featured prominently in "The Place is Here," a retrospective survey of the Black Art movement at Nottingham Contemporary that toured to the South London Gallery.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Tuesday the Black Art Futures Fund (BAFF), a young organization working to support small cultural groups focused on supporting the work of artists of African descent, announced the winning grantees for its inaugural funding cycle.
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In an effort to create more space to show Black art and correct the white-washed narrative of art history, she eventually began displaying those items in the mansion she shared with her second husband, the poet and newspaper man Charles Burroughs.
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Ms. O'Grady titled her performance "Art Is …" and, indeed, since the 1980s, the definition of "black" art has continued to expand, and debates about it — what it encompasses, who can use it, whether it should exist as a category at all — continue.
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Just this year, the Brooklyn Museum's appointment of a white woman to oversee its African Art Collection caused a furor, and T Magazine's article, "Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers," from earlier in the year, caused an even bigger backlash.
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Cullen was gaining renown; the novelist Jessie Fauset was the literary editor of The Crisis; and Jean Toomer's "Cane"—a novel in jagged fragments—had trumpeted the arrival of a new black art, one chained to the fate of a roiling, bullied, "emancipated" people.
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Jones calls his work "Afromysticism," and he has a scholar's love of black art, but everything gets further confused in the second part of the show, where Jomama appears as a version of a schoolteacher who was nice to Jones when he was a boy.
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When Edgers casually compares "Walk This Way" to the "historic" moment when "Elvis thrust his pelvis on 'The Milton Berle Show' 30 years earlier," there's that elephant again: Is anyone more representative of the long legacy of white appropriation of black art forms than Elvis?
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Masters such as Romare Bearden, Bob Thompson, and Alma Thomas, and even contemporary abstractionists like Jennie C. Jones, have bristled at the notion that authentic blackness must be equated with realism and that black art must be subject to sociological approval before being evaluated aesthetically.
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Tweeting "Since #BlackHistoryMonth is already trash, here's a thread of various levels of horrible, no good, very bad art," Cochrane created a thread making fun of a particular strain of black art that puts a mash-up of iconic black figures together in wild, often random situations.
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He gives equal weight, in telling this narrative, to childhood play, the circus, the army, music, racial tension and the Civil Rights movement as it affected Louisville and Washington D.C. It has been said that Gilliam doesn't make "black art," but this assessment misses the mark.
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I figured that if a mostly black art rock band who played a chaotic mashup of noise, funk, and electronic music and sang about interracial relationships and the end of the world could thrive in Williamsburg, then it was where my weird black-ass needed to be.
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The group also includes white allies like the Nasher Museum of Art's chief curator Trevor Schoonmaker, as well as black art historians like UCLA professor Steven Nelson, and celebrated African curator Okwui Enwezor, who defended the Brooklyn Museum's hiring of Dr. Windmuller-Luna, his former student.
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At its onset, the Studio Museum challenged viewers to think beyond traditional definitions of Black art, and for decades, museum directors have continued to push the museum and its collection to new heights, cementing its place in the art world while solidifying its commitment to Black artists.
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Works by late legends Beauford Delaney, Alma Thomas, and James Van Der Zee hold court with current contemporary work by Juliana Huxtable, Titus Kaphar, Adia Millett, and Shinique Smith, in a dense overview of Black art and its unequivocal relationship to the Studio Museum over five decades.
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The Detroit Institute of Arts put together Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement, a concentrated survey of some of the most influential African-American artist collectives of the 1960s, linking art of the Civil Rights Movement in Detroit to that across the country.
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"Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers?" by Janelle Zara "If artists of color were, until recently, effectively written out of art history, black dealers have remained almost entirely absent from the narrative of contemporary art," writes Janelle Zara in our inaugural online art issue.
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But finding the right words at the right time is something of a black art, one that Mr. Draghi will discuss with Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve; Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan; and Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England.
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Twenties can sometimes feel like a compendium of those interviews, reflecting Lena's refreshing (and at times infuriating) answers on identity and black art: Waithe was panned last year for distinguishing herself from black creators who "only have black influences" in a press junket for Queen and Slim.
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Recent years have seen a new level of black art that's intertwined sociopolitical commentary with high-caliber artistry: from Beyoncé's Lemonade and Kendrick Lamar's DAMN to Atlanta and Queen Sugar, there's been a renewed focus on telling stories that broaden and sharpen the range of black narratives.
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With Crime Mob, we've talked about this group in a certain way that they've been connected to violence and lowbrow art but I think a song that has this kind of impact definitely deserves to be elevated in a way that a lot of black art is being elevated right now.
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There was Jaimie Alexander, in a plunge-neck emerald-and-black Art Deco print Genny dress — one of the few prints to make it to the red carpet, and one of the most modern — admitting she doesn't go anywhere "without adhesive these days," the better to keep everything in its place.
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Archival works from the black art world's heavy-hitters — Sanford Biggers, Kara Walker, Dread Scott, Glenn Ligon, Titus Kaphar, Theaster Gates, Jacob Lawrence, Mark Bradford, Elizabeth Catlett, and others — trace the unseen links from slavery to Jim Crow-era violence to the crushing carceral policies that confront black America today.
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" In an interview with WNYC's The Takeaway, Bastién commented on the backlash she received in response to her review, saying, "There's this fear of scarcity when it comes to black art; that if we don't support everything that comes out, we'll never see anything else, which I find very patronizing.
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The script, which Green co-wrote with Howard, is punctuated by thoughtful snippets of Ayanna's poetry, as well as impassioned discussions of everything from the politics of black art to the compartmentalization of women's lives — blunt, disarmingly candid digressions that have the organic feel of conversations caught on the fly.
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Yet there are many topics worth exploring while the show is in Los Angeles, particularly the attempt during and after the Civil Rights movement to consider the question of whether there ought to be such a thing as "Black Art" at all, and how to understand the responsibilities of a Black artist.
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But it was the nerve of the Academy to trot out the image of Black films and the actors they ignored (Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith, Eddie Murphy, Lupita Nyong'o) in an attempt to appear relevant, when it continually refuses to acknowledge Black art, that had my hands shaking with rage.
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" Likewise, Twenties never comes down hard one way or the other about what makes for good black art, but revels in showing people having the debate, never forgetting that, for young people trying to make it in Hollywood, sometimes even just being in the room to have that debate constitutes "making it.
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A recent article on an exhibition in Miami called "Who Owns Black Art?" explains: At a time when black creators are being celebrated as much as ever — from Hollywood to the fine arts — some are raising the question of whether black people are truly the main beneficiaries of the culture they produce.
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So much so that after seeing the movie, I walked out of the screening-room relieved, a weight lifted off my chest that I no longer had to figure out how as a Black woman (and alumnus of the same college as Parker), I was going to separate this Black artist from this Black art.
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However you read Mr. Hammons's recent art, and many ways are possible, one central fact holds true: He is messing with — expanding, exploding — ideas of what art means, and especially what "black art" means, making it broad enough to be borderless, useless as a descriptive label by a controlling and abidingly racist market culture.
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When: Open through September 1 Where: The Broad (221 South Grand Ave, Downtown, Los Angeles) Spanning an especially volatile and culturally fertile period in American — and especially African American — history, Soul of a Nation gathers work from multiple centers of artistic production across the country, presenting a rich and varied cross section of Black art.
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Picnickers occupy the foreground and contrasting snippets of music emerge from two boomboxes — The Temptations singing "It was just my imagination running away with me" and the lyrics of a hip-hop song, "With my hand on my money and my money on my mind" — both representing black art movements that were mainstreamed by suburban white youth.
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The pioneering black art dealers have all since moved on: JAM closed in 1986, after which Bryant became senior policy analyst for development during the Mayor David Dinkins's administration and a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker; Brockman Gallery shuttered in 1990, and both brothers continued their respective teaching careers and artistic practices, and Alonzo moved to the East Coast.
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Coming off a wonderful year of challenging black art that swam in acclaim, engrossing ideological debate, and, in the case of Kendrick Lamar's titan of a sophomore retail album To Pimp a Butterfly, respectable record sales and album of the year accolades, worrying that Macklemore will get credit for pushing the dial on matters of black sociopolitical interest seems odd.
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I do not proclaim that white critics and intellectuals are incapable of critiquing black art altogether, but I strongly believe that in order for their analysis to be one that is accurate without prejudice, they must first study the black experience and the ambivalent ideologies within black culture in order to examine the gravity of black art "Imperial-Hipster Bible VICE Did Paid Propaganda for Saudi Arabia" by Ben Norton for Gray Zone … Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman even personally met with VICE co-founder and billionaire Shane Smith, during his charm offensive in the United States in early 2018 — when the authoritarian de facto ruler likewise rubbed elbows with key figures from the US ruling class, including Oprah, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Thomas Friedman, and Jeffrey Goldberg.
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Similarly, the art world had reinforced its own assumption that no one would buy black art by not selling it, only now reckoning with it as a commercial force: In the last 10 years, according to a 2016 Artnet analysis, Glenn Ligon, Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu — three acclaimed black artists — all joined the ranks of top 10 most valuable American artists born after 1955.
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These limitations are especially stark compared to the wealth of black art and scholarship about trauma: work by the historian Saidiya Hartman, the poet Claudia Rankine, the memoirist and novelist Jesmyn Ward — and so many others who participate in what the writer Christina Sharpe has called "wake work," art that bears witness to the shadow of slavery and conceives of itself as a kind of care over the living and the dead.
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