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The Absurdly Poignant Poems of Sun Ra

Avatar photo by Alex Jen April 18, 2021April 19, 2021

Sun Ra’s stanzas are riddles against passive reading.

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Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia

Avatar photo by Matt Turner February 7, 2019February 6, 2019

Smith’s Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.

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The Cosmic Utopianism of Two Fin-de-Siècle Collectives

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad January 13, 2018February 20, 2018

The exhibition is strongest conceptually when the curators focus on the artist collectives that sought a new social and cosmic order through art.

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The Fantastical Paradoxes of Afrofuturist Film

by Jeremy Polacek April 10, 2015April 15, 2015

Imaginative, aesthetic, historically fixated, and cosmically liberated, afrofuturism could be subject to low budgets, racism, sexism, and indifference, and still count itself a master of radiant ideas.

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Saluting Sun Ra at 100

by Mostafa Heddaya May 22, 2014May 23, 2014

The artist known as Sun Ra would have turned 100 years old today. In death, as in life, the man born Herman Poole Blount on May 22nd, 1914 is a forceful enigma, an influence on more than a generation of musicians, thinkers, and artists.

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At the New Museum, Notes Toward Space’s Oddity

by Mostafa Heddaya February 4, 2014February 5, 2014

“You know, Sun Ra is a formative figure for many young artists,” Georg Schöllhammer, Vienna director of the curatorial collective Tranzit, avowed to me recently on the fifth floor of the New Museum.

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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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The Days of Future Past: Afrofuturism and Black Memory

by Chase Quinn November 27, 2013December 1, 2013

When you walk into the main gallery of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s current exhibition The Shadows Took Shape, which explores contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics, one of the first pieces to catch the eye is a glittering procession of black astronauts fanned across a faded landscape.

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