Hank Willis Thomas & Jesse Owens – Running into history

by Haja Marie Kanu, avantarte. Conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas explores success, power and oppression, specifically, how these ideas play out in the legacy of African American Olympian, Jesse Owens. “Hank’s upcoming edition “salutes that most famous of his four wins at the 1936 Olympics” – the 100m dash.

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The Harriet Jacobs Project Resurrects the Story of a Young Black Woman Who Escaped Slavery and Became an Icon of North Carolina

by Colony Little, ArtNews. The 1767 Chowan County Courthouse is the site of an installation, Memorable Proof, by artist Letitia Huckaby that is part of the “Harriet Jacobs Project,” an ongoing initiative directed by Michelle Lanier and curated by Johnica Rivers.

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Edges of Ailey

Edges of Ailey, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York).

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Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker Made an Irreverent, Charming Kids’ Book

by Stephen Bell, Harpers Bazaar. “Invariably, when people start to garden, they grow food first. But in every civilized civilization that you can think of, where [there] is the garden, it’s because they have enough to eat.

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Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images

By Maurice Berger. The Vision & Justice Book Series, a groundbreaking endeavor conceived by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and published by Aperture, is designed to address past omissions and contribute to the ongoing work of building a richer, more racially inclusive story of lensbased practices. An extension of the work of the award-winning 2016 “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture magazine, the Book Series centers the work of leading lensbased Black artists and related scholars and writers who have been vital to understanding the role of images in generating equity and justice in America.

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Our Medium Is American Democracy’: A New Book Compiles More than 550 Artist Billboards

by Brian Boucher, artnet. Launched by artists Wyatt Gallery, Eric Gottesman, Hank Willis Thomas, and Michelle Woo, the richly illustrated book Where Do We Go From Here? documents every billboard the artist collective and activist group For Freedoms has commissioned.

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Black Portraitures: Shifting Paradigms

The 14th iteration of Black Portraitures is now available to watch on Youtube. Black Portraitures: Shifting Paradigms took place over two days during the vernissage of the 60th Anniversary of the Venice Biennale. This year’s theme, Shifting Paradigms, centered thought leaders from Africa and the African Diaspora who are creating new models for the education, cultivation, exhibition, dissemination, and collection of art and images.

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Blaxploitation, Baby!

At Film Forum. An explosive 16-film fest of the freshest, funkiest and foxiest flicks from the revolutionary ’70s film movement.

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Spotlight on Alberta Whittle

Nicola Vassel Gallery. Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle’s creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as a way to battle anti-blackness. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, currently living and working in Glasgow, her work encompasses drawing, digital collage, film and video installation, sculpture, performance, and writing.

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MVP

A Multimedia Stage Play Inspired by the Music of Melvin Van Peebles The trailblazing work of director Melvin Van Peebles (Watermelon Man, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song) made him an iconoclastic legend and one of the most influential filmmakers of the 1970’s.

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