Restitution’s First Wave: Bénédicte Savoy’s “Africa’s Struggle for Its Art”
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Campt's new book proposes a theory of art as a deliberate challenge to social-political reality.
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Karimah Ashadu’s Films Honor the Everyday Labor of African Workers
The filmmaker refuses to be an interlocutor, instead affording the different African workers the opportunity for first-person storytelling.
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George W. Bush paints over his flawed policies in a new book of immigrant portraits.
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The Paradox of Plenty
In installations and performances, Otobong Nkanga mourns colonialist violence and resource exploitation in Africa.
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The Sculptural Politics of Cacao
How the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League is disrupting the global supply chain of culture.
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In a Riveting Film, Telepathic Revolutionaries and a Brooklyn Noise Band Avenge Racist Murders
We've seen countless images of violence against the oppressed, often in the name of raising awareness. Why are there so many fewer depictions of acts of vengeance and revenge and fighting back against the powerful?
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Nicole Miller’s New Film Compares African American Resilience to the Bodily Fortitude of Astronauts
The ability to withstand space travel is juxtaposed with black children's far less romanticized capacity to endure racism.
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