blackness Archives – Mn Artists

1Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Crowd/The Fire Next Time), 2000. Collection Walker Art Center.

3-21-2023

on craft, or a disordered logic for resurrection

Chaun Webster

1Ayana V. Jackson, Consider the Sky and the Sea, 2019. Take Me to the Water Series. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim.

2-14-2023

We Fly: On Black Aliveness in A Picture Gallery of the Soul

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara

1Allison Bolah, No Accident, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist.

Literature Visual Art

7-8-2022

Noting the Throat/La garganta, anotada

Alcibíades Elián

1KOBI, Foolish (Illusion of Healing Book) , 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.

5-27-2022

KOBI: Reflecting to Heal

Melanie Pankau

1Installation view: Caroline Kent, Proclamations from the Deep, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2021. © Caroline Kent. Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York. Photo: Jason Wyche.

4-18-2022

Speaking Paintings into Being with Caroline Kent

Lindsey Scharold

1Jasper Marsalis, Stadium, 2020. Soil, concrete, LED parking lot lights, light poles, skid steers. 146 x 117 x 12 feet. Image courtesy the artist and Midway Contemporary Art; photo by Aaron Van Dyke.

Performing Arts Visual Art

1-23-2021

The Convex (No Place Is or Ever Was Empty)

Alexandra Nicome

1Ad Reinhardt, Painting, 1960. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

10-31-2018

Are We Black Yet?: On Blackness as Art

Davu Seru

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

9-6-2018

Blackness and the Not-Yet-Finished

Chaun Webster

1“black girl magic” by Johnny Silvercloud is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0.

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

4-30-2018

Black Is a Country

Wendy Thompson Taiwo

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

1-19-2018

A body / a sign : On Black subjectivity / interiority / finding tenderness: beyond political meaningfulness

Mara Duvra

1Artwork by Bobby Rogers, image courtesy of Public Functionary.

12-1-2017

A Deep-Rooted Sweetness: Bobby Rogers’ The Blacker the Berry

Amina Harper