Sentences with phrase «blackness at»

His solo exhibitions include Awesome things you can do with blackness at Kenny Schachter Rove in London, Five Ways to Say the Same Sadness at the University Art Museum at the University of Albany, and the eRacism touring retrospective.

There were no signs and each branch seemed of equal width, both disappearing into blackness at the edge of the headlights» domain.

It's a mission he undertakes to erase the ills suffered by Blackness at the hands of white supremacy, a system Wakanda managed to escape.

When Sam isn't hosting her show, making shorts like Rebirth of a Nation (a post-Obama repurposing of minstrelsy), or literally writing the book on how to sustain one's blackness at a white - dominated Ivy League school, she's bedding Gabe (Justin Dobies), a white TA.

It's past 4 A.M. in Squaw Valley, Calif. — the dead of night, the hour of the wolf, when sane people are sleeping under warm blankets, not standing in the chilly blackness at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada waiting for a horse race to begin.

Malcolm gave black theology its black identity, putting blackness at the center of who we were created to be.

As we do, we must also recognize that these unnecessary deaths are part of a cultural death — the death of blackness itself at the hands of life - denying, anti-blackness.

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The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

Despite the best efforts of his mother and father, he was without a value - based sense of blackness, and he was «at risk» because he was culturally adrift — primed to be cut down by the forces of «they - all - look - alike - ism.»

The second stanza, one long sentence, propels us toward the culminating lines of the poem to learn what the people see: «There in the sudden blackness of the black pall / Of nothing, nothing, nothing — nothing at all.»

Daisy and the five go on to have their own respective kids, those kids have their own kids, and so on and so on, up to the moment where the sun burns out and the universe experiences heat de.ath to what remain are cold, cosmic cor.pses and eternal blackness for everything residing, de.ad or alive at the time.

Somehow Updike implies an affirmation in writing that at best says, «Blackness is not all.»

The Book of Lamentations plunges one at once into the tragedy which had overtaken the Jewish people, and without momentary release moves forward through poem after poem descriptive of the blackness of days when

I knew that most of my former professors at Garrett and Northwestern would have trouble with what I was saying about liberation and Christianity, blackness and the gospel.

Perhaps this is one way to distinguish between the «blues,» which afflict nearly everyone at one time or another, and the blackness of clinical depression.

Prowling through his dimly lit hotel suite, he paused at a window and peered out at the blackness.

At what point, when speaking about the pain blackness endures, will it come time to take another step further?

He marvelled at the strange colour gradient running from the blue of the troposphere to the deep indigo of the stratosphere to the empty blackness of space.

Interestingly enough, I never fit into the «code of blackness» during childhood / adolescence and I was still well - liked enough by most of the black people at my schools, with the exception of a few black girls.

While Wakanda represents a fulfillment of that longing, Killmonger's royal bloodline remains at odds with his American Blackness.

But rather than violence and abandonment, he's offered the promise of Wakanda — what the fictional fantasy of Wakanda represents, and, by proxy, what America ought to represent at its best: hope, innovation, opportunity, aspiration for Black youth upon seeing Blackness excel.

A gift too opulent to not be at least partially corrupted, Black Panther contains multiple films in one: the one we get to see and, underneath the CGI afrofuturistic frenzy and celebration of diasporic blackness, what I'll call the «forbidden film,» the one that has been snatched away brutally, the one in which Killmonger succeeds in supplying the Black world with vibranium.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

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Haven't we cringed enough at the fraud of Rachel Dolezal, whose performative blackness triggered a deserving fall from grace?

Imagine knowing there was a black utopia, a place at the root of all blackness, self - sufficient and untouched by slavery or colonialism.

Though everyone goes out of his or her way to show Chris that they're not prejudiced, blackness seems to come up everywhere, especially at an unexpected party filled with privileged white guests.

So does another thing Ms. Gee says when she starts each science class telling us about a leader of color in science — she says she will never stop showing her blackness, because at one point we couldn't.

At a young age, Patrisse Khan - Cullors learned that blackness functioned as a target and watched as racism chipped away at the humanity of her loved oneAt a young age, Patrisse Khan - Cullors learned that blackness functioned as a target and watched as racism chipped away at the humanity of her loved oneat the humanity of her loved ones.

Become part of a new generation of private astronaut - experience the thrill of acceleration to over 3 times the speed of sound and see our beautiful planet from the blackness of space at over 360,000 feet.

You can count the pixels on any object and count the different colors in the whole game pretty quick and, most distressingly, the background of the battle screen is just blackness with a little sprig of whatever biome you're standing on at the very top.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s essay on Frederick Douglass is very empowering, and at the end he says, «Even a lecture about something as seemingly apolitical as photography or art in the end must by definition be engaged within and through Douglass's state of being as a black man in a white society in which one's blackness signifies negation.»

Outside of her work for museums and biennials, Edwards has independently curated exhibitions at galleries, most notably «Blackness in Abstraction,» an expansive survey of the color black in non-figurative work, for New York's Pace Gallery in 2016.

Hank Willis Thomas's show Pitch Blackness remains on view at Jack Shainman Gallery through March 14th.

At Pace Gallery, the group show «Blackness in Abstraction» is curated by Adrienne Edwards.

Featuring 28 works by 19 artists — both black and white — the exhibition explores how visual perspectives of blackness «have been influenced at particular historical moments by specific political, cultural, and aesthetic interests, as well as the motives and beliefs of the artists.»

More recently, in Kasmin's usual confines, the same Frank Stella who had nurtured blackness came out from under wraps — or at least stripped off the paint and much of the formalism — letting found metal twist and shine.

It's latest record million dollar sale price acknowledges what many have recognized for decades — Marshall is one of the great painters of his generation and his approach, «Blackness in the Extreme» (as he titled his Nov. 12 lecture at the Crystal Bridges Museum), resonates narratively and aesthetically.

EXHIBITION «Blackness in Abstraction,» a group exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards, opens at Pace Gallery in New York on June 22.

Blackness in Abstraction is on view from June 24 to August 19, 2016 at 510 West 25th Street, with an opening reception on Thursday, June 23 from 6 to 8 p.m..

Zanele Muholi at Yancey Richardson «Zanele Muholi» Through December 9, 2017 Visual artist and activist Zanele Muholi's arresting work revolves around themes of blackness and queer identity in South Africa.

About the Curator: Essence Harden (Oakland, CA) works at the intersections of blackness, art, and cultural history.

The painting isn't about blackness or womanhood — perhaps those ideas are hinted at.

Arrayed among the more traditional sumi ink works at the Chinese Culture Foundation's group show, «The Moment for Ink,» Toyin Odutola's dark, textured ballpoint - ink - and - marker drawings pop - in their intensity, richness and blackness.

Working primarily in ink, charcoal, pencil, and ballpoint pen, Ojih Odutola's drawings reveal an artist looking closely at the materiality of blackness while engaged in a deep examination of its methodology.

They are both invested in art's revolutionary possibilities for social change as evinced in Rainer's anti-war protest dances in the 1970s and the feminist dimensions of her radical choreographic style and films, as well as in Pendleton's Black Lives Matter flag for the Belgian Pavilion in the 2015 Venice Biennial and his latest series of paintings entitled Untitled (A Victim of American Democracy), which debuted this past summer as part of Edwards» Blackness in Abstraction exhibition at Pace Gallery and are now on display in Pendleton's first show with Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich named Midnight in America.

Wise beyond her years, and very needed at this time, Toyin spoke with Saint Heron on the mercuriality of humans becoming, the fluidity of the term identity and the perception of Blackness.

And the third painting in the series Excavation at Night (1908) though unfortunately over-varnished, particularly damaging for a very dark painting, but at the same time the shiny blackness of large areas of the work served to reinforce the connection I made between Bellows» choice and treatment of this subject and Robert Smithson «s observations on entropy in his 1967 essay «A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.»

He may end up with only the banality of a magazine spread, and yet he, too, is looking at received imagery and speaking of blackness.