Atlas San Juan: Afro-Caribbean Connection
The 2000 census was the first since 1960 that asked Puerto Rican people about their race, and the results speak to the complex status of Afro–Puerto Ricans within this supposedly harmonious…
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We Built This City: A Conversation with Lauren Halsey
I've always felt that the built environment exists in dialogue with oppressive, or liberating, systems.
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Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett explored themes of race, gender, and class in her prints and sculptures, not only portraying the types of injustices she knew all too well as the granddaughter of slaves but also…
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Cathy Wilkes
If one had to name a single idea or type of experience underlying all of Wilkes's production, it would be that of poverty: not just the absence of money in itself, but the kind of poverty that is a…
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Unspared Audience: American Realness at Abrons Arts Center
American Realness, an ambitious experimental dance and performance art festival, began humbly in 2010 by presenting the work of eight choreographers at Lower East Side theater space Abrons…
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Conflict and Subversion: keyon gaskin’s Playlist
A group of videos about race, nostalgia, and refusal.
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Testing Trust: TBA:17 in Portland
As a home base for the festival, Portland has a unique cultural character. Renowned for its progressivism and quaint urbanity, the City of Roses is also the whitest large city in the United States, an…
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9 Art Shows to See After ‘12 Years a Slave’
Museum exhibitions confront amnesia, restore lost narratives, and consider the legacy of the Middle Passage
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Stranger in America
Glenn Ligon, whose midcareer retrospective is currently at the Whitney Museum in New York, frequently uses text-laden paintings, prints and other works to probe America's troubled racial psychology…
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From the Archives: Blacks, Whites and Other Mythic Beings
Adrian Piper, the uncompromising Berlin-based American artist and philosopher whose work applies the rigorous strictures of conceptual art to questions of race and identity, was awarded a Golden Lion …
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