Sounding Board does not do what I expect from contemporary performance with its staged acting and scripted plot and dialogue, but it still succeeds.
Tschabalala Self
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Tschabalala Self’s Sensual Stories of Race, Sex, and Power
From one project to the next, Self reinvents herself and reimagines how to portray the human body.
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Tschabalala Self’s Avatars of Black Womanhood
Tschabalala Self explores the iconography, interiority, and subject status of Black women in her multimedia portraits.
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What It Means to Dream Avant-Garde
To Dream Avant-Garde acknowledges the artistic innovators of today — those who push the cultural status quo in their work.
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Immersed in the Playful, Communal World of a Bodega
Tschabalala Self reflects on the vibrant environment of bodegas, shining focus on who owns and frequents them.
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Portraits of the Self as Tickets to Paradise
What does it mean to be “in heaven” in our moment in time?
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Letting Go of the Distinction Between Figuration and Abstraction
LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, claims to “[examine] the space between figuration and abstraction” — a great starting point unless you have the sneaking suspicion that this space disappeared decades ago.