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Art History

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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Art History

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...

Dialogue

Tate Shots Issue 8: Doris Salcedo

December 18, 2009 editor no comments

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 prese...

Dialogue

Kehinde Wiley on MUSE

December 18, 2009 editor 1 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 ult...

Through the Eyes of Others

December 18, 2009 editor no comments

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.

‘Race and Reunion’ by Professor David Blight

December 18, 2009 editor 2 comments

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 ...