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PANEL: Golden, Njame & Bailey discuss curating the Black diaspora...

April 12, 2013 editor no comments

Tate Modern Africa 05 Collaboration with Royal College of Art Speaker/s: panel presentations and discussion between Thelma Golden, Simon Njame & David Bailey (chaired by Dominic Willsdon) Date: 1...

TALK: Yinka Shonibare discusses his art with Bonnie Greer

April 11, 2013 editor no comments

Tate Britain Gordon’s Turner Prize Artist, 2004 Speaker/s: Yinka Shonibare Date: 03 November 2004 Title: Yinka Shonibare in conversation with Bonnie Greer WATCH VIDEO LINK

LECTURE: Kobena Mercer on 19th Century black artists

April 11, 2013 editor no comments

WEB DuBois Institute for African and African American Research Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series Speaker/s: Kobena Mercer Date: 20 October 2009 Title: Recrossings: Three Nineteenth-Century Black Atla...

From the archive: ‘Ethnic Notions’ by Marlon Riggs

February 2, 2012 editor no comments

From cartoons to money boxes, early advertising to characters in films, negative stereotypes and caricatures of people of African descent have historically pervaded popular culture in America. One of...

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Picturing a ‘Vanishing Race’: The Complete works of George...

November 14, 2011 editor no comments

George Catlin (1796 – 1872) was an American painter who embarked on a project to capture the last surviving Native American tribes in what is known as the ‘Old West’. Through portra...

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The Image of the Black in Western Art Volumes republished by Harvard

May 5, 2011 editor no comments

The Image of the Black in Western Art (IBWA) Research Project and Photo Archive[1] is a pioneering research initiative that has sought to document the African presence in Western European art. It be...

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DuSable Museum of African-American History

January 18, 2011 editor no comments

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