How Africans Want to Be Seen
This seems an especially important and timely exhibition given the increasingly contentious presence of Chinese business in Africa.
A new exhibit at Li-Space in Beijing’s Caochangdi district aims to refashion the traditional visual impression of Africa – that of famine, war and poverty – through images that show a continent of culture, hope, imagination and dreams.
“Africa: See [...]
“Global Art Histories/ Multiple Modernities” @ CAA
I didn’t attend this year’s College Art Association conference (but next year I will because it’s in L.A. again) but I wanted to share this link to a review by William Gassaway of Leslie King-Hammond and Sarah Lewis’ panel. Congrats, ladies!
The Centennial Session on “Global Art Histories/ Multiple Modernities” (Thursday, Feb. 10, 9:30am-Noon) is undoubtedly [...]
Review of “In My Father’s House,” Pittsburgh
(This looks like a really interesting show—I want that banquette, Cheryl!—but, really, where are the copy editors??? “Cary May Weems?” These kinds of things are just so lazy and easily remedied. Also, I can’t recall ever reading an exhibitions manager quoted as calling an exhibition in her venue “neat.” I guess I can’t ever shrug [...]
Review of “In My Father’s House”
August Wilson Center exhibit looks at the keeping of memories
Nathaniel Donnett exhibition review
Exhibit highlights racial baggage behind “paper bag tests”
By DOUGLAS BRITT Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Sept. 3, 2009, 6:30PM
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Lawndale Art Center
The paper sacks in Paper or Plastic? are a metaphor for the “baggage … we personally carry.”
The title [...]
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- Taking a Break February 7, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]