In conjunction with the exhibition Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses her work and its feminist themes.
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Exploring how images are conceived and interpreted
The space where culture is interrogated and explored
Bringing the old and new world together
Highlights from the Black is Beautiful exhibition and accompanying film
An exploration of responses to the current season’s theme
Columbian artist Doris Salcedo talks about the themes and ideas explored by her work Shibboleth – a huge crack produced in the floor of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2008:
“The presence of the immigrant is always unwelcome. The presence of the immigrant is seen as jeopardising the culture of Europe. Europe is being seen as a homogenous society, a democratic society, that has learned through centuries of development, has learned to solve issues through dialogue…And if that is the case, then where to we place these outbreaks of racial hatred?… Its a piece that is both in the epicentre of catastrophe and at the same time, it is outside catastrophe…” - Doris Salcedo
Speaking as part of the Yale University spring history course on The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877, Professor David Blight presents a lecture titled: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
Take a look at the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, installing his work, ‘Between Heaven and Earth’ in the African galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
“I think beauty …
Jacob Jordaens, Moses and his Ethiopian Wife, c.1650
Oil on Canvas, Rubenshuis, Antwerp
In early versions of the Old Testament, there is a passage which describes Moses introducing his Moorish or Ethiopian wife to his sister Miriam …