Kehinde Wiley - Three Wise Men Greeting Entry Into Lagos, 2008
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Muhammad Ali + El Hajj El Malik Shabazz
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“Listen to iona rozeal brown as she talks about her painting sacrifice, on view in the Museum’s New Acquisitions and Rotations Gallery, and her artistic influences. Her painted subjects come from the idea of the Ganguro, which literally means “black face,” and fashion-conscious Japanese teenagers. She combines this imagery with 17th- and 18th-century Japanese woodblock prints of geishas, bathhouse girls, samurai, and Kabuki theater actors. The results are extreme hybrids, the combination of traditional Japanese imagery with an overtly hip-hop stylization.”- Milwaukee Art Museum
Video credit: Milwaukee Art Museum
Read her recent comments on Japan’s ganguro sub-culture in the NY Times: http://ow.ly/aTLJG
For more info on the #AfriFemArtisticGenius of iona rozeal brown:
I have a crazy beautiful friend from Zimbabwe :)
She woke me up at 8am on a Saturday morning and we went to the other side of Cape Town and took pictures.
This Cape Town has been deemed irrelevant by most because it is not suitable for white middle class occupation.
Enjoy.
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Well worth waking up early for! These images were shot in Salt River in Cape Town.
We asked a group of homeless people if we could take photos of them so that we could tell another “Capetownian” story. The woman responded that we should take photos of ourselves if we wanted to portray Cape Town in a different way.
Steph is Ivorian, I am Zimbabwean and we’re black, female, educated and underrepresented… The woman had a point.
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Kara Walker portrait of Andy Warhol created for Interview magazine, October 2004.
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