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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

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

Walter’s World: Weekend Picks

For the second week dance dominates the art scene. We have dance happening throughout the five boroughs from ballet to African. Continue reading

Kalup Linzy At The Studio Museum In Harlem

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The Studio Museum in Harlem presents Kalup Linzy: If it Don’t Fit, the first museum survey of the artist’s work, which includes approximately 20 videos (narrative and music), and two drawing suites made over the last seven years.

Known for the cast of comedic and dramatic characters he creates and performs, as well as for his original music and serialized narratives, Kalup Linzy (b. 1977) first presented his characters at the Studio Museum in African Queen (2005), and then again in Frequency (2005), a group exhibition of emerging artists. Since then, he has continued to create and star in his own videos, and work as a singer-songwriter. Drawing on a variety of American pop and counter cultural genres, Linzy takes a clever and complex approach to questions of race, gender, class and sexuality. Continue reading