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Black Contemporary Art

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Follow @blackcontempart a place for art by and about people of african descent. this tumblelog does not claim the rights to any of these images. this tumbelog was initiated by museummammy in 2011 and features posts by whitedevilsophistry, xaymacans, ranaa, lurkinglate, and others. this tumblr claims no rights to any of these images. if you'd like to have your work removed or amended please contact us.
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Senga Nengudi R.S.V.P., 1975 Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Though Senga Nengudi’s R.S.V.P. is abstract, its forms suggest a body or body parts—limbs, breasts, buttocks, appendages, wombs. Store-bought nylon pantyhose filled with sand, knotted, stretched, and tacked to the wall mimic the elasticity of skin, tender at life’s beginnings and then sagging with age and strain. It is particularly piercing that the crotch of the pantyhose, splayed out vulnerably at the sculpture’s center, bears dramatic forces of tension and suspension. The cultural associations of the hosiery and its color identify the body alluded to as black and feminine. Yet the body in question also belongs to viewers: the title of the work, a commonly used French acronym, entreats viewers to “please respond.” Nengudi frequently used her R.S.V.P. series in choreographed performances, where the sculptures served as restraints, props, and costumes.
#Senga Nengudi#art#black art
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Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture

Curator: Sekou Cooke Center for Architecture, New York Oct 01, 2018 to Jan 12, 2019

Images: PHAT (Nathaniel Belcher, Stephen Slaughter), Harlem Ghetto Fabulous, 2003. Courtesy of the artists; Delta, Exothermic, 2010, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Courtesy of the artists; and Olalekan Jeyifous, Surface Armatures, 2014, Brooklyn. Courtesy of the artist

#Art#black art#Sekou Cooke#Nathaniel Belcher#Stephen Slaughter#Olalekan Jeyifous

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