In his debut US exhibition, Omar Victor Diop inserts conspicuously absent historical black male figures into Western art.
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Capturing the Faces of the Global Refugee Crises
LOS ANGELES — The Annenberg Space for Photography serendipitously opened their latest exhibition Refugee during the Jewish holiday of Passover, which celebrates one of our most enduring refugee narratives, the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt (even if its veracity is in doubt).
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A Contemporary African Art Fair Arrives in New York
It may at first thought seem odd that the newest addition to Frieze Week in New York is a fair devoted to contemporary African art.
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Sunshine Tinged with Noir at Paris Photo LA
LOS ANGELES — The red carpet at Paramount Pictures Studios didn’t lead to a movie premiere or an awards ceremony, but rather the Lower East Side — or at least its facsimile in the studio’s New York backlot, where brownstone and cast-iron buildings hosted pop-up galleries and bookshops. This was the second year that international photography fair Paris Photo returned to Los Angeles for its American offshoot.