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Derrick Adams

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Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition Features Monumental New Mural by Derrick Adams

Avatar photo by Milwaukee Art Museum November 5, 2021November 5, 2021

The artist dedicates this site-specific installation to “the perseverance of Black Americans in their pursuit of happiness.”

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Derrick Adams’s Transmissions on Art and Black Identity

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd August 24, 2018

Adams’s artworks have a compelling sense of incompleteness, as the viewer is pressed to consider what is missing within his representations.

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A Landscape Made Up of Black Folks

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney January 3, 2018

Derrick Adams shows how the nature of an urban environment, like New York City, is found in its inhabitants.

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Three Powerfully Political Shows Open at the California African American Museum

by Matt Stromberg March 7, 2017

The California African American Museum kicks off its exhibition cycle this Wednesday with shows about the 1992 LA Uprising and historical disappearance of African-American women.

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Dreamscapes for the 21st Century at the Volta Art Fair

by Daniel Larkin March 4, 2016March 4, 2016

Plunge into dreams at Volta NY 2016.

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Politics Camouflaged as Ornamental Abstraction

by Faheem Haider April 9, 2015April 10, 2015

NEW PALTZ, NEW YORK — I recently saw the group show ostensibly about ornamentation and abstraction at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, and came away thinking I’d just seen a show about politics, hegemony, and the War on Terror.

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He Who Controls the Past: Highlights from “The Shadows Took Shape” at the Studio Museum

by Chase Quinn December 11, 2013December 11, 2013

One part a literary subgenre of sci-fi, pioneered by the likes of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler, and one part cross-cultural, interdisciplinary aesthetic movement, Afrofuturism — a term coined by cultural critic Mark Dery in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future”— can be tricky to describe.

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Expo Chicago: Streamlined and Sellier Than Ever

by Philip A Hartigan September 24, 2013September 29, 2014

CHICAGO — Expo Chicago, an art fair occupying the cavernous Festival Hall on Navy Pier, returned for its second year in its new incarnation, and all the signals coming out from artists and dealers suggested that it was a success.

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