Tag Archives: David Hammons

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

Radical Presence Black Performance in Contemporary Art

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

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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

Dr. Kellie Jones in conversation with Hettie Jones In Harlem

Named one of the top art books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly, Kellie Jones’s EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art features selections of her writings from the past twenty years. 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

Rogue Intellect-David Hammons At L&M Arts

By Tod Roulette

No one has ever taken the time to explain football or basketball to me. It was
kind of assumed that you’ve got to feel it in your gut or catch the enthusiasm
around you. Stick around, study and learn.

The artist David Hammons is a rogue intellectual and visual craftsman using
mostly odd pairings of objects and thought. In 2003, he presented, “Concerto in
Black and Blue”-a Gathering of the Tribes at Ace Gallery. Continue reading