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Romare
Bearden Made a World
 A
startling vision greets visitors to "The Art of Romare Bearden,"
the awe-inspiring retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC. At the airy mezzanine entrance to the show, a photograph
of Bearden's remarkable 1972 collage, "The Block," has
been blown up to the… [more]
what is rent-a-negro.com?
 (a
letter written by damali ayo, creator of rent-a-negro.com,
to her friends and family.) rent-a-negro.com is a conceptual
art work in the form of a web site. it's part of a "diy reparations"
approach to life. in december of last year, after some very difficult
realizations about my exhaustion, due to enormous overwork and exhausting
out-put of education to white people, and taking large amounts of
racism and racial ignorance into my system on a daily basis… [more]
Images
of Hip Hop, African Origins
and Black Fashion
  The
vibrant images by Ernie Paniccioli in "Who Shot Ya?: Three
Decades of Hip Hop Photography" are a visual history of the
artists who created the most dominant musical movement of the past
25 years. Paniccioli’s photos, which have appeared in magazines
like The Source and VIBE, are a combination of photojournalism,
snapshot and paparazzi fervor… [more]
 The
Quest for Life After Death
"The Quest For Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt," which
is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and
will travel to other U.S. cities, is a sumptuous treat for the eye
and spirit. With 115 exceptional and many rare objects-including
intricately painted coffins, a gold funerary mask and a life-sized
reconstruction of a pharoah's burial chamber—it is the… [more]
Body
Images, Then and Now
 Those
of us who are—all in one body—a woman, a person of color
and a person of working class or poor origin, already know about
the discomforting gaze that seeks to consume or "objectify" us for
prurient entertainment or derogatory judgment. Those of us who fancy
ourselves members of the Black female intelligentsia may feel we
know about even more—everything from Saartjie Baartman (the
Venus Hottentot), who was displayed in 19th century Europe…
[more]
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