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Show on African homosexuality shut down after fundamentalist attack - 0 views

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  • aliangle on 06 Jun 14
     
    the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art (9 May-8 June), was cancelled on 31 May. According to the news service Times24.info, the Senegalese government also ordered the suspension of all exhibitions in the biennial that refer to homosexuality.
John Fenn

Matatu - Journal for African Culture and Society: ingentaconnect Table Of Contents - 0 views

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  • John Fenn on 20 May 14
     
    Issue of Matatu titled "African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum: Sights/Sites of Creativity and Conflict"; all content in this issue freely available as PDF.
John Fenn

Chicago's Opportunity Artist - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • What’s far more interesting,” he says, “is what compels someone known for making art to want to do this and how savvy they have to be to get it done and what sort of difference it makes.
  • Gates sometimes describes his work as reimagining the possibilities of “black space.” Could a block of decaying two-flats well beyond the city’s cultural and economic hubs be converted to form a new creative cottage industry? Could artistic types be drawn there and made to think of themselves not as gentrifiers but as entrepreneurs with a stake in the African-American community?
  • Gates may be performing the archival functions of a major academic institution, the social programming and physical redevelopment of government (his team hired 14 guys from around Dorchester to carry out the gutting of the bank), but he’s doing this in a way that satisfies his own aesthetic appetite and follows the peculiar byways of his imagination
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  • The art practice most akin to what Gates is doing, and to which he often refers, is Project Row Houses. In 1993, Rick Lowe and several other African-American artists renovated a string of abandoned shotgun-style homes in Houston’s Third Ward, turning them into artist residences, setting up community-arts programming and later opening transitional housing for single mothers. They based the enterprise on the German artist Joseph Beuys’s concept of social sculpture, the idea that a work of art could be a practical social action
  • Gates believes the “cross-training” has helped expand his thinking about what art is.
  • There are the teenagers on the block paid to clean up, the ex-con who began as a denailer of salvaged wood, Gates’s nephew apprenticing at the workshop. Rebuild Foundation, Gates’s studio and the University of Chicago Arts Incubator together have a full-time staff of 20 — most of them in their own right artists, curators, art historians — and those people manage others.
addiemarsh

Charles Neville & Youssoupha Sidibe with the Myistic Rhythms - 0 views

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community eugene Oregon music concert wowhall african

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  • addiemarsh on 21 May 14
     
    Concert at WOW Hall this Friday, May 23 at 7:30pm. These Grammy winning brothers perform a combination of New Orleans and West African music creating a new kind of high energy. Go check them out!!
hmadrid2

Cuthbert Amphitheatre - The Premier Outdoor Concert Venue in Eugene, Oregon - 0 views

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Die Antwoord concert

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  • hmadrid2 on 20 May 14
     
    Die Antwoord is a South African group that consists of performers Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er, and DJ Hi-Tek. I've never been to one of their concerts, but I've heard great things. According to everyone I've talked to about the group, their performances have been the most insane anyone has ever seen. Their concert is this Saturday at the Cuthbert Amphitheatre!! I strongly recommend attending this event!
Kamala McCullum

Trevor Noah - 0 views

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arts culture creativity comedy South Africa stand up

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  • Kamala McCullum on 20 May 14
     
    Trevor Noah is the favorite South African comedian who has sold more DVDs than any other standup on that continent. Fans recite his performances verbatim, share his clips globally, and have joined him in legions on Facebook and Twitter. Noah has hosted numerous television shows in South Africa, including the country's music, television and film awards, the South African Comedy Festival, and two seasons of his own late night talk show. He is also the subject of David Paul Meyer's award-winning documentary film You Laugh But It's True which tells the story of Trevor's remarkable career in post-apartheid South Africa.
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