Sentences with phrase «black presence»

Nigerian - born curator Okwui Enwezor, director of the 56th Venice Art Biennale, sparked this conversation about the expanded black presence in the global contemporary art scene.

The crisis at Crenshaw, one of the few schools in the city with a significant black presence, is a chance to do just that.

Image: Chris Johanson, Untitled (Figures with black presence), 2002; Collection SFMOMA, gift of Amy Adelson and Dean Valentine; © Chris Johanson

«Jimmy's Thrift» is large and stands as an unapologetically Black presence.

In the coming years, those branches are set to reach much further as the museum expands its platform for showcasing and mining the «global black presence,» as Golden describes it.

«The whole history of art becomes a narrative about black presence.»

It is possible that whites became more tolerant of a black presence at school, or that districts began relying more extensively on voluntary tools to desegregate schools, avoiding the politically unpopular measures that provoked so much opposition in the years immediately following the release of the Coleman Report.

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will present Black Chronicles II, an exhibition curated by Renée Mussai and Mark Sealy of London - based arts agency Autograph ABP, which explores the Black presence in late 19th century Victorian Britain through the prism of studio portraiture.

«We've reached a time again where the history of the black presence in Britain isn't being told in the positive way it could be.»

Since the 1980s, in works that are daring, political, and skilful, she has called for due acknowledgement of the black presence in British life.

Tony Gleaton: Africa's Legacy in Mexico is a selection of 20 photographs drawn from a larger series entitled Tengo Casi 500 AÃ ± os: Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Central and South America, exploring the black presence in Mexico.

Any other gospel or R»n' B song could have been used, but the insertion of West's gospel - infused track into the installation sends a signal to the audience that this is a modern exploration of the Black presence in America.

Just as black inventors helped make possible everything from the traffic light to the elevator, the black presence has informed and shaped the discourse of American art.

Up until that time, before Yale, I was mostly influenced by Clement Greenberg and the Color Field painters, because with them there was a black presence.