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Danny Tisdale Installation And Performance In The ‘Radical Presence’ Survey Show

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Visual artist and Harlem World Magazine founder Danny Tisdale is currently showing and will perform in January 2013 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston as part of the Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black artists working from the perspective of the visual arts. Continue reading

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‘Radical Presence’ Cataloque Of Black Performance Practices in Contemporary Art

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Radical Presence chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. Where hegemony has tended to define black performance art as an extension of theater, this publication provides a critical framework for discussing the history of black performance within the visual arts over the last 50 years. Continue reading

Danny Tisdale In Radical Presence Catalogue

radical presenceRadical Presence chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. Where hegemony has tended to define black performance art as an extension of theater, this publication provides a critical framework for discussing the history of black performance within the visual arts over the last 50 years. Continue reading

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black artists working from the perspective of the visual arts. Continue reading

‘Negro Sunshine’ Glenn Ligon: America At The Whitney Museum of American Art

By Tod Roulette

In deciphering the well deserved review of the artist, Glenn Ligon at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I have to start at the end of the show. In this final room three large neon signs simply spell ‘America’. One is shiny white and the ‘E’ is turned backward and the rest of the  country’s name reads reverse. On the opposite wall ‘America’ reads correctly from left to right in masked black neon. Continue reading