Smith’s 1998 film exudes the DIY charm of a low-budget, first-time feature while keenly depicting the complexities of both race- and gender-related inequalities.
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Meet LA’s Art Community: Cauleen Smith Is “Thinking About Black Women Who Reject Patriarchal Orders”
An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
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Cauleen Smith on Spirituality, Staging, and Having Enough
Discussing her solo show at MASS MoCA, the interdisciplinary artist explained, “When I’m talking about ‘We Already Have What We Need,’ what I’m really trying to talk about is our anxiety as human beings about how to live.”
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Cauleen Smith, Irena Haiduk, and Martine Syms on View at the ICA in Richmond
Two new exhibitions open on February 16 at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
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Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia
Smith’s Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.
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A Show That Requires a Different Kind of Looking
ROYGBIV at the Kate Werble Gallery represents a diverse gathering of artists – veterans and newcomers, abstract and figurative, from Portland to Tehran.
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The Multifarious Feminism of the Whitney Biennial
Through its feminist contributions, the exhibition offers a window onto some of our most pressing cultural concerns, as well as our shortcomings.
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See Film and Video Art on the Big Screen at BAM
The eighth edition of Migrating Forms, running March 24–30, includes works by General Idea, Cauleen Smith, Jonathas de Andrade, Sondra Perry, and others.
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A Moving Image Artist Finds Freedom After Abandoning the Film Industry
After her first feature screened at Sundance, Cauleen Smith lost patience with the film industry’s conservatism and devoted herself to art; her work is currently in the Whitney Biennial and Migrating Forms at BAM.
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An Omnivorous Tour of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
See highlights from the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which opens to the public later this week.
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A Procession of Black Love Responds to Controversial Michael Brown Exhibition in Chicago
CHICAGO — After the scene of Michael Brown’s death was staged at Guichard Gallery as an artwork this summer, there was a public discussion about the exhibition and the fact that it was created by an artist who identified as white, Ti-Rock Moore.
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Between Carnival and Performance Art: Nine Artists on Masquerade
NEW ORLEANS — It’s astonishing that in 2015 a group exhibition of nine artists of color can still be impressive based on statistics and context alone.
