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Chase Quinn

Chase Quinn is a New York City-based arts and culture writer, and contributes regularly to NBC's theGrio. He has a soft spot for French films, English period dramas and early American Lit. Follow Chase on Twitter: @chasebquinn.

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How Lorraine O’Grady Has Challenged a Segregated Art World

by Chase Quinn December 3, 2018December 3, 2018

O’Grady has persistently raised questions about the lack of black representation in art and in the art world. But her latest exhibition represents a shift.

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Piecing Together Black Identity on Canvas

by Chase Quinn April 12, 2017

Juan Logan’s work sees Black identity as both a cipher that contains the secret of America’s greatness and a constant reminder of its deepest shame.

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The Living History of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’

by Chase Quinn August 31, 2015September 22, 2015

I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, travelled North seeking economic opportunity, education, and respite from the strictures of Jim Crow South.

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African Artists Take a Seat at the Table

by Chase Quinn August 13, 2015August 13, 2015

Boundary lines make up much of the Richard Taittinger Gallery’s current exhibit, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? — lines that, like borders, criss and cross, divide and obscure.

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Laughing (and Crying, and Laughing Again) About Slavery

by Chase Quinn February 24, 2015February 25, 2015

Aside from innovative and well-executed visual effects, what makes Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play An Octoroon so remarkable is the unceasing state of anxiety in which you’re held from start to finish.

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Rediscovering the Roots of Black Radical Brooklyn

by Chase Quinn September 30, 2014September 29, 2014

The energetic, jumbled print design of funkgodjazz&medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, an exhibition by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center, strikes a bright, funkedelic chord in the mind’s eye. This is jazz; this is the casting off of the master’s linguistic tools; this is a celebration of black selfhood.

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On Sochi, ‘Queer’ Art, Fashion, and Activism

by Chase Quinn February 10, 2014February 14, 2014

On Friday night at the Louis B. James gallery, in a spare white room, a predominantly white and relatively good-looking American Apparelesque crowd gathered under the auspices of queer-art-fashion-activism for the launch of the Purple and Gold capsule collection.

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He Who Controls the Past: Highlights from “The Shadows Took Shape” at the Studio Museum

by Chase Quinn December 11, 2013December 11, 2013

One part a literary subgenre of sci-fi, pioneered by the likes of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler, and one part cross-cultural, interdisciplinary aesthetic movement, Afrofuturism — a term coined by cultural critic Mark Dery in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future”— can be tricky to describe.

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The Days of Future Past: Afrofuturism and Black Memory

by Chase Quinn November 27, 2013December 1, 2013

When you walk into the main gallery of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s current exhibition The Shadows Took Shape, which explores contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics, one of the first pieces to catch the eye is a glittering procession of black astronauts fanned across a faded landscape.

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