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A new photographic installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE, inspired by William Morris
‘The William Morris Family Album’ is the title of a new photography exhibition and costume display at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, east London, featuring a new installation of photographic tableaux created by British-Nigerian contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. In preparation for the exhibition, Shonibare undertook extensive research into the life and work of William Morris,…
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Contemporary Art Conversations: “In the Heart of the Lights,” by curator Simon Njami
Curator, writer and art critic Simon Njami will be giving a keynote lecture on 17th February 2015 to launch a series of events at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry to accompany his current exhibition WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 – A Commemoration of the Berlin Congo Conference (on display at SAVVY Contemporary in…
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‘GHOSTS: Technologies/Subjectivities’ – Artistic conversations about the ‘techno-cultural’…
On 15th January 2015 I was pleased to attend a contemporary art lecture from the series ‘GHOSTS: Technologies/Subjectivities’ at Camberwell College of Art (UAL: University of the Arts, London). This session featured a series of presentations about aesthetic responses by black British artists to an increasingly ‘techno-cultural’ and globalised art world (esp. over the past two…
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Black Studies Association Conference: Blackness in Britain 2015 (Birmingham City University, 30-31 October)
The theme of the Black Studies Association annual conference is “The Black Special Relationship: The US influence on British Black Studies.” This two-day event takes place at Birmingham City University, 30-31 October 2015, and its programme is concerned with an examination of ways in which Black British intellectual life has been influenced by African-American scholarship…
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RC21 International Conference: ‘The Ideal City: between myth and reality. Representations, policies, contradictions and challenges for tomorrow’s urban life’ (27-29 August 2015 – Urbino, Italy)
The RC21 Conference 2015 (The Ideal City: between myth and reality…’) will be hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences – Department of Economics, Society, and Politics at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy. It has been organised to enable sociologists, geographers, urbanists, town planners, artists and other creative professionals to consider…
