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A Landmark Show of Black Women Artists Gets a Second Life

Avatar photo by Alexandra M. Thomas July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

Fifty years ago, the historic Sapphire Show modeled a Black feminist ethics of uplifting one another when others fail to do so.

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Senga Nengudi: Topologies Opens May 2 at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Avatar photo by Philadelphia Museum of Art April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

Situated at the intersection of sculpture and performance this provocative work reimagines abstract art through an exploration of the Black female body.

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“Being Born Black in America Is a Political Act”: An Interview With Senga Nengudi

Avatar photo by Anna Souter September 26, 2018September 25, 2018

In advance of her first retrospective outside the US, avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi discusses her emergence onto an international stage after a long career.

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Revisiting a Seminal Exhibition on “Third World” Feminist Art at A.I.R. Gallery

Avatar photo by Ana Tuazon August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together? revisits A.I.R.’s 1980 exhibition Dialectics of Isolation, important for its promotion of women artists of color at a time when the New York art world was painfully exclusive and discriminatory.

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Eight Decades of Sculpture by African American Women in LA

by Matt Stromberg March 29, 2017March 29, 2017

Opening this Saturday at Landing Gallery, Signifying Form features sculpture by African American women artists working in Los Angeles between 1935 and 2016.

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The Improvised Body: The Reemergence of Senga Nengudi

Avatar photo by Noel Black September 6, 2014September 12, 2014

The artist Senga Nengudi was recently honored with dual retrospectives of her work at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art and RedLine Gallery. The MCA featured the black and brown pantyhose of her long-running R.S.V.P. series, which was stretched, contorted, and knotted into abstract echoes of everything from hair and genitalia to masks and musical notation.

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The Fantastic and Revelatory Story of Art and Black LA

by Jillian Steinhauer October 22, 2012October 26, 2012

On first glance, some may wonder why MoMA PS1, a New York contemporary art museum, has just opened a historical exhibition of art from Los Angeles. But as MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey explained at the press preview last week, the show in question, Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, actually has a connection to the New York institution.

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