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Omar Victor Diop, Frederick Douglass, 2015. Pigment inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 90 x 90cm
Omar Victor Diop, Frederick Douglass, 2015. Pigment inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 90 x 90cm

Hyperallergic | “All Lives Are Black Lives”: Examining Race in South Africa

A story by Artthrob on the 15th of November 2015. This should take you < 1 minute to read.

Hyperallergic reviews Goodman Gallery’s ‘Young, Gifted and Black’ which ended on the 11th November, and was reviewed by Same Mdluli for ArtThrob:

In 1969, singer and activist Nina Simone galvanized the Civil Rights movement with her proud anthem “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” written in memory of Lorraine Hansbury, the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway. “When you’re young, gifted, and black / Your soul’s intact,” Simone sang. “To be young, gifted, and black / Is where it’s at.” Fifty years later, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, these affirmations are just as sorely needed as when Simone first sang them. Now, artist Hank Willis Thomas has curated a group exhibition inspired by and with the same name as the song — one of his “all-time favorites” — which is currently on view at the Goodman Gallery in South Africa.

Read more at hyperallergic.com

Tagged: Goodman Gallery, Hank Willis Thomas, Hyperallergic

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