In a new ART21 «Exclusive,» Nick Cave discusses the experiences that force him to confront
his identity as a black man — including being racially profiled by police — and how they fuel his impulse to create.
He went to Howard University, in Washington, D.C., and began to study architecture, understanding what he learned through
his identity as a black man.
Not exact matches
... Superhero movies have long needed this kind of representation in terms of
men and women of color, and for
black audiences, «Black Panther» will undoubtedly be as culturally significant in the way it addresses subjects of identity, race and gender as «Wonder Woman» was to female fans.&r
black audiences, «
Black Panther» will undoubtedly be as culturally significant in the way it addresses subjects of identity, race and gender as «Wonder Woman» was to female fans.&r
Black Panther» will undoubtedly be
as culturally significant in the way it addresses subjects of
identity, race and gender
as «Wonder Woman» was to female fans.»
The filmmakers catch us up on old friends, build stronger
identities for newer ones (Paul Rudd's Ant
Man has tricks up his tiny sleeves) and introduce two significant characters,
Black Panther (played with ferocious dignity by Chadwick Boseman) and a fresh Spider -
Man (played
as a genial, awestruck teen by Tom Holland, who actually is a teen).
A multi-screen, documentary - style video installation, «Question Bridge» presents a dynamic series of «exchanges» among
black men who span generations and backgrounds about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant to their experiences such
as race,
identity, faith, family and fatherhood — .
They run from Andy Warhol decidedly in drag to Cindy Sherman on the modest and incisive scale one forgets she had back in 1978, Adrian Piper with an eye to a young
black man's
identity, and Matthew Barney or Barney drawings with all eyes
as ever on himself.
Cutler employs a vivid color palette to compose internal - landscapes / symbolic still lifes, exploring the cultural and personal significance of his
identity as a
black gay
man in contemporary America.
His powerful figurative paintings highlight the daily lives of
black queer
men and the difficulties faced by defining one's
identity as such in contemporary society.
Ligon, who was born in the Bronx in 1960, has put his search for
identity as a gay,
black man at the centre of his own practice.
In White Girls, his critically acclaimed collection of essays from 2013, he examines his
identity as a gay
black man through the white women who have caused him pain.
As a
black man born in Manchester and now living in Trinidad, half a world away from the endless machinations of the London art world and London's art dealers, how has Ofili defined his own experience of being alive, and succeeded in establishing his own
black cultural
identity through his art?