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Brother Outsider
During his 60-year career as an activist, organiser and “troublemaker,” Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement. His passionate belief in Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence drew Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to him in the 1940s and 50s; his practice of those beliefs drew the attention…
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Armory Show Site Projects by African artists
As part of The Armory Show 2016 Focus: African Perspectives curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, the Armory will feature eight special projects bringing together a group of artists from Africa and the Diaspora. The selected artists include: Armory Commissioned Artist Kapwani Kiwanga, Karo Akpokiere, Jared Ginsburg, Lebohang Kganye, Mame-Diarra Niang, Emeka Ogboh,…
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THE ARMORY SHOW: 2016 FOCUS
FOCUS: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES Curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba New York – The Armory Show is taking an ambitious step to highlight a vast and artistically rich region with Focus: African Perspectives – Spotlighting Artistic Practices of Global Contemporaries. Moving beyond conventional ideas of the African continent and its “counterpart”, “the Western hemisphere,” this…
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