2020 Rapid Response Grant: Race, Medicine, and Art Collide in "Pathologies of Difference"
Friday, Dec 18, 2020
How have art and medicine shaped historical perceptions of minorities?
Art & Culture
British Art and Natural Forces: A State of the Field Research Programme
Friday, Dec 18, 2020
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.
Museums Are Filled With Stolen African Art. Is It Time To Return It?
Friday, Sep 25, 2020
The violent theft of thousands of works of African art by mostly-Western powers is well-documented—but the pieces remain in the collections of Western museums. Is it time to return Africa's looted art? And how should that process play out?[Opinion] On-Screen and Off, Chadwick Boseman Was a Hero
Wednesday, Sep 30, 2020
Boseman's influence extended beyond the industry. Through all of his movies he inspired moviegoers around the world, challenging preconceived ideas about who we could be. The countless stories of Black children elated by seeing Black Panther on screen reflect the power and potential of cinema. Boseman represented that power and that potential.Seeing Empire
Friday, Sep 4, 2020
We are living with the current forms of the lasting regime of American imperialism on which this nation was founded. Understanding and teaching this mitigates against narratives of US exceptionalism that declare America is not imperialist and that are therefore useless for challenging or imagining alternatives to our present. Untangling art history’s involvement in the project of nation building addresses the past to imagine what could have been, in order to sustain what can be.Chika Okeke-Agulu Deutsche Welle 2018 Interview
Friday, Jul 10, 2020
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]
African American Prints
Friday, May 29, 2020
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.
Corona Notebooks: Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Sri Lanka, Australia, and USA
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
"Cooking's become a way for me to slow down." Anna Arabindan-Kesson prepares recipes from her childhood with her two young sons during this lockdown. She remembers her childhood in Sri Lanka and Australia, and reflects on questions of memory and heritage through physical practices.Defiance and Pleasure in Unstable Times
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
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]
Chika Okeke-Agulu is Named 2020 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Wednesday, Feb 5, 2020
The Institute of Fine Arts is delighted to welcome Chika Okeke-Agulu as the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor for the spring 2020 semester.
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