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November 5, 2015
in Art & Architecture, David Ebony and ARTbooks

Multimedia Masquerade—Masks and Disguise in Contemporary Art: Interview with Pamela McClusky by David Ebony

November 5, 2015
in Art & Architecture, David Ebony and ARTbooks

David Ebony— As Performa 15, the performance art biennial, gets underway this week in New York, on the West Coast, Los Angeles’s Fowler Museum at UCLA hosts “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art,” an extraordinary look at the use of masks in contemporary performance art, sculpture, photography, installation and video.

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July 31, 2011
in Humanities, Social Science

To London, with Love: Bottled Up Memories from El Anatsui

July 31, 2011
in Humanities, Social Science

“El Anatsui”, an exhibition organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, on view now until October 16, displays the intricate metal work of the Ghanaian-born sculptor and his use of bottleneck foil wrappers to invoke the legacies of postcolonialism.

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The History of Economic Sanctions as a Tool of War

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Black Artists in America: From the the Great Depression to Civil Rights

Earnestine Jenkins– My new book, Black Artists in America: from the Great Depression to…