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Dawoud Bey

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The Voices Dawoud Bey Hears

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

Unless you were already familiar with Bey’s documentary work, the horror he refers to might not be recognizable to you.

Posted inArt

Four Decades of Dawoud Bey

Avatar photo by Zoe Samudzi March 4, 2020March 11, 2020

Bey does not simply document Black life, but Black existence in a nation-state built upon the creation and maintenance of our subjugation.

Posted inArt

The Many Afterlives and Expressions of the African Diaspora

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 30, 2019December 19, 2019

To commemorate the 400-year anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ships in the United States, a recent exhibition at the Allen Memorial Art Museum explores Paul Gilroy’s concept of the “Black Atlantic.”

Posted inOpinion

Decolonization: an Act of Independence, Not Benevolence

Avatar photo by Lise Ragbir March 7, 2019June 17, 2020

It’s clear: We need space for new narratives. But how far will we get if the space-making rests in the hands of the colonizers?

Posted inArt

Dawoud Bey Enters the Imaginations of Freedom Seekers

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney February 14, 2019April 19, 2019

The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.

Posted inArt

Dawoud Bey Photographs the Living to Honor Children Killed in Birmingham in 1963

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz March 9, 2018March 8, 2018

These portraits are not displayed in memoriam. They’re full of life.

Posted inArt

Back When Painting Was Dead

by John Yau February 11, 2018February 11, 2018

When Clement Greenberg, Frank Stella, and Donald Judd tried to define what makes a painting, they overlooked a central feature — capaciousness.

Posted inIn Brief

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Dawoud Bey, and Trevor Paglen Among This Year’s MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grantees

by Claire Voon October 11, 2017

The annual award to given to individuals who have “shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”

Posted inOpinion

Which Artist Should Create Obama’s Official Presidential Portrait?

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 3, 2017July 3, 2017

In a perfect world, who would be the artist that captures the likeness of Obama for his official portrait?

Posted inArt

At Home in Harlem

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney December 9, 2016

The inaugural exhibition at the new Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute is concerned with demonstrating how one comes to belong to a place.

Posted inBooks

The Politics of Seeing, Being, and Visibility in Photography

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 20, 2016June 20, 2016

It doesn’t seem right to call the latest issue of Aperture — its first issue dedicated to African American lives as represented by the medium of photography — a magazine. It is a powerhouse book; it does so much heavy lifting.

Posted inArt

Whitney Biennial 2014: Where Have All the Politics Gone?

by Jillian Steinhauer March 5, 2014March 8, 2014

The 2014 Whitney Biennial has many things: oversized ceramics, big abstract and figurative paintings, experimental jazz, videos of people having sex, and bead curtains. What it doesn’t have all that much of is politics.

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