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Jessica Bell Brown

Jessica Bell Brown is a writer and independent curator based in New York. She is currently a PhD student at Princeton in Modern and Contemporary Art.

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Kara Walker’s Show is a Painful, Necessary Reminder That US Culture Wars Never Ended

by Jessica Bell Brown October 12, 2017October 13, 2017

Walker’s drawn and collaged images depicting haunting scenes of abuse and violence refuse to let us look away from America’s bloody past and present.

Installation view of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 at the Brooklyn Museum (© Jonathan Dorado)
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The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World

by Jessica Bell Brown August 7, 2017August 4, 2017

We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.

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How Black Modern Artists Defied a Singular Narrative in 1971

by Jessica Bell Brown January 17, 2017January 23, 2017

1971: A Year in the Life of Color studies two exhibitions essential to the ongoing relationship between black American artists and modernism.

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Kehinde Wiley Paints the Precariousness of Black Life

by Jessica Bell Brown May 20, 2015May 24, 2015

Much has been made of the current Kehinde Wiley retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.

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