Kara Walker’s Dust Jackets for the Niggerati
theHotness presents…
An Art Walk & Talk
for
KARA WALKER’S
Dust Jackets for the Niggerati–and Supporting Dissertations,
Drawings Submitted Ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker
hosted by
Nicole Moore
Founder & Editor, theHotness.com
&
Dexter Wimberly
Director of Communications, Museum for African Art
When:
TODAY – Saturday, June 11, 2011
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 West 22nd St., NYC
* Afterwards we will continue the conversation over drinks *
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High Fashion or Low Class?
For some reason Venus’s provocative tennis outfit at the French Open got me thinking about Sofia Maldonado’s mural on 42nd Street and the uproar it created over whether it was a bold expression of art and culture or a simple promotion of stereotypical images of Black and Latina women. Why and when does art’s imitation of life become so problematic? High art or a low down dirty shame? Clearly it’s not just girls in the Read more...