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Dope sense of form and color.

Ken Prescott - Jazz!

Contemporary Art Normcore

#dopeyouthart #digital collage #welikethis

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...Reminds us of Harlem off the C train.

#diasporaaesthetics #gottolookgood #africanswag #everydayart

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OUR ZIVA Artist of the Day! Kudzani Chiurai. His growth, reflection and daring as an artist are an example of an artist with the most open mind...

#kudzani #kudzanichiurai #zimbabwe #africancontemporarymedia

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Renee Cox, Black Art Legend, Haute Contemporary Black Art

Liberation of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben by Renée Cox

#blackartists #blackdesigners #contemporary black art

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When it comes to cultural retentions and blood links back to Africa, it seems that Latin America has the hardest struggle which is often negotiated in their contemporary art. There is a weird link here between Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the attitude that everyone wants to claim blackness without having to live it. This piece recalls appropriation and the misinterpretation of different symbols.

BUT you cannot tell people that believe that their skin makes them accepted everywhere that the very same thing locks them off from intimate understanding and knowledge... I digress. The piece is problematic.

momorayo answered your question:Anyone know what this image is all about?

yeh I don’t get it either, but from what I’m seeing it’s trying to be reminiscent of Frida Kahlo’s “my wet nurse and I” painting or somethin

interesting observation as it’s by a Spanish artist (I’m...

#blackdebates #blackexperiencesplural #whodidthispiece

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In Photos: Photography by Sérgio Santimano.

Of Goan (Indian) and African origins, Sérgio Santimano was born in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, Mozambique, in 1956. Being committed to his country, Sérgio Santimano works in the tradition of classic documentary and reportage photography. 

Under the supervision of one of Mozambique’s most noted photographers Ricardo Rangel, Santimano started to work as a photo journalist for the newspaper Domingo in 1982. From 1983 to 1988, he produced and published relevant work for national as well as international press, covering war, famine, and political issues for AIM (Mozambican News Agency). In 1988, with his Swedish wife, he moved to Sweden where he worked and studied documentary photography. 

After the end of the Mozambican civil war in 1992 he started working as a freelancer, documenting the consequences of war and the reconstruction of the country. For the first time in his life he could travel across the entire country and discover it in times of peace. 

His first major work, starting from 1992 until 1993, was a long-term project – a series of portraits about a mine victim, Luísa Macuácua, whom he accompanied from the capital Maputo back to her town of Inhambane. From this work resulted an exhibition with the title Mozambique – Caminhos / The Long and Winding Road. It was shown internationally, and extracts from it were published in Revue Noir and the prestigious Portuguese news magazine Grande Reportagem in Lisbon. 

Since 1997 Santimano has worked in Northern Mozambique. On several trips he has explored the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado on the Indian Ocean for an extended project. The outstanding series Cabo Delgado - A Photographic History of Africa emerged as a result of these journeys. 

In the years from 2001 to 2005 followed Terra incognita, his work on Niassa as a homage to its people. It focuses on the realities of human life, the cultural identity of the people, and their solidarity in a place where they live under very difficult circumstances. On his trips to the North, Santimano always visits the Ilha de Moçambique (UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site), the legendary first Portuguese base situated on the East African coast on the way to India. This is where he is working on another long-term project at present. 

Since 1992, Santimano has exhibited extensively throughout Africa, Europe, Sweden, India.

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Spanish artist Maximo Riera has up-cycled olive tree debris into the ‘millennial console collection’. So freaking cool.

#sustainable #outofthisworlddesign #wildaesthetics

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Download a new mixtape featuring J Dilla beats with reworked De La Soul lyrics. 

#musicfortheday #jdilla #delasoul #get it together

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Stunning take on a piece of the old south swept away...

American gothic, NOLA by streetlight

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From the Pawter Althamer exhibition...we are on the lips of everywhere...Africa - All Day

#africancontemporarymedia #zimbabweeducation #zimbabweinstituteofvigitalarts #new museum #pawter althamer

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Teaser For 'Oya: Rise of the Orishas' - Resurrecting Orishas As Modern Day Superheroes

HELLO!

#moderndaysuperheros #orishaheros #orisha #africancontemporarymedia

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Saw this awesome trailer yesterday about Orisha (Yoruba Ancestral Spirits/Elements) being used in comics and now in an incredible superhero movie with the Orisha Oya is the heroine...she controls hurricanes, winds, thunder and lightening so...kind of like Storm.

I love Storm. Growing up she was one of my favorite characters and X-men. She is such a well rounded character both vulnerable, beautiful, fierce, complicated and powerful. I really wish someone would get her right in a movie. She deserves it.

#blackcomics #x-men #orishaheros

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ZIVA quote of the day from Richard Wright...share, share, share.

#richard wright #quoteoftheday #africanart #contemporary african art

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ZIVA artist of the day, Julie Mehretu. Amazing, inspiring, overwhelming...calculated grace.

#julie mehretu #mehretu #blackart #blackaesthetic #zimbabweeducation #artofafrica #africanart #african contemporary art #africandesign

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When Black Artists go unnamed in the creative process it is reminiscent of the Primitivist movement and how our aesthetics can be labeled without our input. In this contemporary case there is a picture of the men who "helped" Pawet Althamer construct this piece...but no names are listed.

"Polish artist Paweł Althamer, 46, who is opening his first U.S. museum solo show at New York's New Museum...Black Market(2007), an installation made in collaboration with African immigrants living in Warsaw, includes a larger-than-life male figure-a portrait of the Althamer-crafted from ebony." 

-http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/previews/pawel-althamerrsquos-social-sculpture-at-the-new-museum/

#new museum #unnamedblackartists #blackaesthetic #blackart #contemporaryart

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YEEESSSSSS

Today In History

‘Langston Hughes founded the New Negro Theater in Los Angeles, CA, on this date March 19, 1939.’

(photo: Langston Hughes)

- CARTER Magazine

#blackart #blackliterature #blacktheater #zimbabweinstituteofvigitalarts #arthistory