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Reading Black Art

28/01/23 at 18:01 pm by admin

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

A Resource on Black Artists, Art History and Visual Culture by Nasher, Museum of Art at Duke University
Reading Black Art is a non-exhaustive collection of resources on art, art history and visual culture of the African Diaspora. This curated selection presents a wide array of instructive texts that will aid in better understanding of and engagement with work by Black artists in the Nasher Museum collection. Reading Black Art also features exhibition catalogues published by the Nasher Museum on the occasion of original, traveling exhibitions of work by Black artists. Intended to be a living and circumscribed bibliography that is updated regularly,

Reading Black Art is a helpful tool for educators, students and those interested in Black visual culture.

Poetry from South-Africa

09/12/22 at 10:39 am by Candice Allison

FROM THE ARCHIVE 2: December 10, 2017

Following in the footsteps of their predecessors, this new generation has taken up the social and revolutionary potential of poetry; they have grasped it between two hands, stretched it, pulled it apart, and moulded it back together in their own way, with an array of multi-disciplinary influences from hip-hop, jazz, visual art, film, and performance.

Candice Allison on poetry in South-Africa

Robin Rhode, The Moon is Asleep, 2015. Super 8mm film transferred to digital HD, duration 1 min 50 sec, images courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Gallery.

The art world in South Africa observed

09/12/22 at 08:46 am by Thuli Gamedze

FROM THE ARCHIVE 1: February 2016:

Thuli Gamedze – a middle class Black person, as she calls herself – observes the art world in South Africa, specifically in Cape Town, in an attempt to reconcile personal encounters in various art spaces that seem to present multiple tensions between viewer, artist, art object, and gallery structure- due to the latter’s implied neutrality.

Memory drawing of Sophia Lehulere (2015, chalk on blackboard, 70 x 100cm) of ‘Untitled’ painting by Gladys Mgudlandlu (undated, gouache on paper, 51 x 70cm), part of ‘History Will Break Your Heart’, of Kemang Wa Lehulere, 2015.

Frida Orupabo

08/12/22 at 09:51 am by Sihle Motsa

To gaze at the artist’s work is to encounter the vagaries of history, to be fixed in a time mitigated by the whims of the clock, an arbitrary sequence that fails to account for how Black femininity exists both within and without modernist time.

Sihle Motsa on the work of Frida Orupabo

Lies, 2022

Yinka Shonibare

06/12/22 at 10:58 am by Themba Tsotsi

ThembeHybrid Sculptor (Terpsichore,Bete-Guro Mask)

Shonibare created an exhibition where he wanted to show the spiritual and universal function of the African aesthetic. He created a stylised collection of works that he sought to find an historic discourse for without losing the trace of the abstract and literal interaction with western influences.

Themba Tsotsi writes about the work of Yinka Shonibare

Hybrid Sculpture (Terpsichore/Bété Guro Mask)

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