The Art of Blackness: A Symposium

Friday, April 25th 10am-5pm

Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway/ New York University

What does blackness mean in the context of art criticism? Formal element? Lived experience? Race? How might blackness be conceived in terms not exclusively bound to the sociological and questions of positive/negative, authenticity, truth, or essence? Centering the work of scholars devoted to black visual and expressive culture, this concentration of black study considers the multivalence and critical consequence of blackness as an aesthetic and cultural idea enacted through and across the arts (e.g., literature, film, performance, contemporary art, and music).

Co-sponsored by: the Center for Black Visual Culture, the NYU Department of Photography and Imaging and the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies.

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