Embracing and reinterpreting cultural traditions from which black people have historically been excluded, Awol Erizku reimagines Beyoncé into an idealization that has typically been reserved for white women.
Author Archives: John Bowles
John P. Bowles is Associate Professor of African American Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment published by Duke University Press.
The 1970 New York Artists’ Strike that Prefigured #J20
The #J20 Art Strike resonates with the approach of the 1970 New York Artists’ Strike against Racism, Sexism, Repression and War, also commonly referred to as the Art Strike.