Tag: African Americans
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Cauleen Smith – interview: ‘I don’t know if optimism is needed so much as vigilance’
The artist on what it was like to have her lockdown Instagram posts on Covid shown on the vast screens at Piccadilly Circus, having her film about New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina shown in Edinburgh, and her…
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Isaac Julien: ‘I dream a world’ Looking for Langston
A new exhibition focusing on the Isaac Julien’s hugely significant 1989 film delves into what made this work such a landmark in African-American and queer studies, through a presentation of newly realised photographic works and rare archival material
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Hank Willis Thomas: ‘Ideas crop up out of thin air, like bubbles, and I’m just trying to trap them’
The artist talks about grabbing people’s attention to make them think about things they normally wouldn’t think about, recapturing or re-experiencing historical moments, and how he still has the mind of a photographer, even if that’s not where he always…
