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Posted inOpinion

An Archconservative Magazine Discovers Afrofuturism at the Met and Is Not Pleased

by Mark Dery November 18, 2021November 19, 2021

Conservative critic Gilbert T. Sewall wants to make the Met great again.

Posted inArt

Met Museum Reimagines the Period Room Through the Lens of Afrofuturism

by Valentina Di Liscia November 5, 2021November 8, 2021

From Njideka Akunyili Crosby to Elizabeth Catlett, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room integrates works by Black creators from the past to the present.

Posted inArt

A Major New Exhibition on Afrofuturism Touches Down Right on Time

by Faith Adiele October 5, 2021October 8, 2021

This rich history is undercut with urgency, as gentrification is displacing Oakland’s Black population at a staggering rate.

Posted inArt

What Does It Mean to Create Afrofuturistic Art?

by Aida Amoako August 16, 2021August 16, 2021

In this apocalyptic future that Sedrick Chisom so vividly builds, all people of color have left Earth.

Posted inArt

QTPOC Artists Mine the Power of Intimacy

by Eileen G'Sell July 24, 2021July 28, 2021

The Self Maintenance Resource Center is a living archive of personal, creative, and intellectual inspiration for artists.

Posted inFilm

Stream Afrofuturist Gems, Including John Akomfrah’s The Last Angel of History

by Dan Schindel February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Here are some important titles you should seek out in the Criterion Channel’s Afrofuturism series.

Posted inArt

How a Futurist Hungarian Arts Movement Offers New Means of Autonomy

by Mia Imani Harrison October 30, 2020November 5, 2020

Hungarofuturism, an Eastern European movement directly inspired by Afrofuturism, collapses perceptions of national and individual identity, monuments, and historical sites.

Posted inArt

Museum Hosts Afrofuturist Block Party to Honor Artist Timothy Washington

by Matt Stromberg August 28, 2019

The California African American Museum is hosting a weekend of workshops and more in Leimert Park.

Posted inArt

An Afrofuturist Graphic Novel Revives the Lost Histories of Women-Led Slave Revolts

by Claire Voon April 17, 2018April 17, 2018

Erased from history books, the stories and roles of women in slave revolts will now be told in vivid form by Rebecca Hall.

Posted inNews

Artist and Curator Ingrid LaFleur Is Running for Mayor of Detroit

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 2, 2017

LaFleur is a native Detroiter who traveled and worked in the wider contemporary art world for over a decade, before returning to apply what she’d learned to her hometown.

Posted inArt

Wifredo Lam by Way of an Afrofuturist Graffiti Artist

by Joseph Nechvatal January 21, 2016January 27, 2016

PARIS — Wifredo Lam’s hot, hybrid style is essentially spiky.

Posted inArt

Senegal’s Trash Transformed into Afrofuturist Haute Couture

by Carey Dunne October 27, 2015October 27, 2015

In The Prophecy, a striking series by Dakar-based photographer Fabrice Monteiro, majestic alien creatures wear hoop skirts and headdresses made from soda cans, garbage bags, fishing nets, tortoise shells, and the odd baby doll.

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