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El Hadji Sy’s ‘alchemy of assemblages’ at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt
Earlier this month I went to Germany to undertake gallery-based research at the Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) in Frankfurt and spent time reviewing the temporary exhibition, El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics (5 March-10 October, 2015). This detailed retrospective about the life and work of internationally renowned Senegalese artist-curator and activist El Hadji Sy…
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Guardian Live Debate: Diversity in the Arts – 15 April 2015
On Wednesday 15th April I attended a panel discussion at Kings Place in central London about ‘Diversity in the Arts’, organised as part of the Guardian Live series of debates. The event was chaired by Guardian journalist Mark Lawson and featured contributions from five invited panellists: Chris Bryant (Labour Party spokesperson for culture, media and the arts), David…
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Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s (V and A Museum, London)
Room 38a at the V&A Museum currently features a series of photographic reflections on black British lived experiences over a period of five decades, captured by selected African and Caribbean diaspora artists and photo journalists who came to prominence between the early ’50s and the 1990s. The photographs are a sample of relatively recent acquisitions for the V&A’s growing collection…
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A review of the Tate Britain symposium, “The Black Subject: Ancient to Modern”
On 20th and 21st February 2015 Tate Britain hosted a two-day event to explore a number of themes about representations of African and Asian people and their diasporic descendents within European art history. The symposium was scheduled to complement the display ‘Spaces of Black Modernism: London 1919–39’ – co-curated by Dr Caroline Bressey and Dr Gemma Romain (The Equiano Centre,…
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“American Policing: Lessons on Resistance” – Discussions at the Schomburg in New York
‘American Policing: Lessons on Resistance’ is the title of a panel discussion that took place at the Schomburg in New York on 18th February 2015 as a follow-up conversation to their recent town-hall-style debate on ‘American Policing: The War on Black Bodies’. The session featured wide-ranging commentary on issues related to police brutality, racial discrimination, ‘stop and frisk’/’stop…
