2020 Rapid Response Grant: Race, Medicine, and Art Collide in "Pathologies of Difference"

How have art and medicine shaped historical perceptions of minorities?
How have art and medicine shaped historical perceptions of minorities?
This multi-part programme of research events focuses on the encounter between artistic and art-historical practice and the forces of the natural world. It places such encounters in both contemporary and historical perspectives.
In a 2018 interview, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu discusses France's promise of restitution of cultural works to Africa.
[Originally published on June 11, 2020 via Imo Dara]
Spanning over 100 years, this selection of prints demonstrates not only the wide range of traditional and experimental techniques but also the pervasive current of iconic and narrative impulses that characterize the graphic work of African American artists from Henry Ossawa Tanner to Martin Puryear.
Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Aisha Khan discuss the new series "Undisciplined Pleasures, Vigilant Defiance" with artist Sarah Khan.
[Originally published on April 9, 2020 via Twelve Gates Arts]