Tag: Racism
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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South
Scrap metal, old clothing, paint tins, driftwood, furniture and animal bones are rendered into works rich in personal, social and political symbolism by artists without formal training who for years have been largely overlooked
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People Make Television
The offbeat East London gallery Raven Row returns with a treasure trove of 1970s participatory TV, providing a panoramic social history of a tumultuous time
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Jennifer Wen Ma: ‘With the pandemic and the turbulent political situation, the work had to be more reflective, it had to bind up wounds’
The artist talks about how the Covid lockdown – and increased awareness of social injustice and racial discrimination – radically changed her ideas for her latest show
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Alberta Whittle – interview: ‘No one can find Barbados on a map, whereas everyone can find the UK. That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work ’
The artist talks about the erasure of black people in everyday society, and how this informs and motivates her to challenge herself, and her audience, with her filmic and performative installations
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Gordon Parks: Part One
Parks’s photographs of everyday life for black families in the 1950s and 60s lure the viewer in with their lush colours, only to reveal the toxic reality of segregation and racism – something that, 60 years on, still resonates
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Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth Century Mexico
La invención del mestizaje: La pintura de castas y el siglo XVIII en México Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA 4 April-8 August 2004
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