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Tate Shots Issue 8: Doris Salcedo
December 18, 2009 – 4:16 pm | No Comment

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 …

Carrie Mae Weems @ the Brooklyn Museum
December 18, 2009 – 3:42 pm | No Comment

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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Kehinde Wiley on MUSE
December 18, 2009 – 3:04 pm | No Comment

Artist Kehinde Wiley speaks about his work on Bloomburg’s arts programme, Muse:
“My work isn’t necessarily driven by a desire to create a corrective, but I think a corrective is ultimately what comes out of it. …

Through the Eyes of Others
December 18, 2009 – 2:30 pm | No Comment

A panoramic view the exhibit Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art by Professor Gretchen Sorin at the Fenimore Art Museum, in Cooperstown, New York.
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‘Race and Reunion’ by Professor David Blight
December 18, 2009 – 2:14 pm | No Comment

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.
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African Art and Modernism
December 18, 2009 – 1:00 pm | No Comment

Professor Jack Flam (City University, New York) gives a lecture on African Art and Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in conjunction with the exhibition: Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary …

Video on El Anatsui at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
December 16, 2009 – 11:31 pm | No Comment

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 …