Tag Archives: #blacklivesmatter

Automating the Pain of Others: Susan Sontag and Facebook

by Morgan Green | Aug 3, 2017

Automating the Pain of Others: Susan Sontag and Facebook

by Morgan Green | Aug 3, 2017

Writer and artist Morgan Green offers a poignant critique of Facebook’s algorithmic display of violent images.

On View Now

ICP’s Momentous and Magnificent Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change

by Rachel Heidenry | Feb 2, 2017

On View Now

ICP’s Momentous and Magnificent Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change

by Rachel Heidenry | Feb 2, 2017

Rachel Heidenry reviews the exhibition “Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change” at the International Center of Photography, on view through May 7, 2017.

Playing with Numbers: Black Representation in American Art Institutions

by Olubukola Gbadegesin | Feb 26, 2016

Playing with Numbers: Black Representation in American Art Institutions

by Olubukola Gbadegesin | Feb 26, 2016

Art history professor Olubukola Gbadegesin cautions against celebrating the recent trend of art institutions finally collecting work by Black artists.

Are We There Yet? A brief history of art and Black Lives Matter

by Sheldon Scott | Jan 18, 2016

Are We There Yet? A brief history of art and Black Lives Matter

by Sheldon Scott | Jan 18, 2016

Artist Sheldon Scott surveys the historical longevity of the Black Lives Matter movement in art, long before the hashtag made the issue trending.

The Walker Curates the News: 12.08.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 8, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 12.08.14

by Walker Art Center | Dec 8, 2014

Do #blacklivesmatter to the art world? Not when it really counts, writes an African American woman working in arts PR: “It’s not like my colleagues don’t know how to talk …