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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.”

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Artists Remix and Riff Off Oberlin’s Architecture

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 24, 2018

As part of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, artists have transformed the Oberlin College campus with sculptural reflections on architecture.

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Fred Wilson Strips Culture Down to Black and White

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 28, 2017

The exhibition Black to the Powers of Ten at Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum showcases the artist’s extensive examination of black identity and labor.

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Fred Wilson Teaches Us How to Pay Attention

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 14, 2017February 13, 2017

In the artist’s intervention at Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum, white and black bodies suggest a deeper, racialized meaning.

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Go to College, Get a Masterpiece!

by Hrag Vartanian October 19, 2011October 19, 2011

I was speaking the other day to my colleague — and increasingly friend — Rebecca Uchill, who is headquartered at MIT, and she told me that one of the perks of being at MIT is that you can take real art home (or to the dorms, anyway) as part of some glorious art lottery known as the Student Loan Art Program. WHAT?!?!

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