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MAKING IT DO
Demetrius Oliver is the hotness. The Studio Museum of Harlem knows this. His work was just taken down yesterday after the closing of he and his fellow |
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Watt's Up at the CAAM
Created and nurtured by numerous luminaries, the dichotomies of Negro/Black music lie in two camps from the latter part of the last century: Motown, representing the Motor City |
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Delphine Diaw Diallo’s Photo Magic
Voila. A word uttered after the legerdemain dazzles the audience with some spoof or light-of-the-hand heist, or when witnessing Delphine Diaw Diallo’s visual mecca back to Senegal. Magic |
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Cairo See Prints
Code Z decided to check up on what's happening with the arts scene across the Atlantic. Destination: Cairo on the occasion of the Forty-Ninth World Press Photo Awards |
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Dig, if You Will, a Picture
It goes without saying that the African Diaspora is pretty far reaching. So while you’re walking the streets of Cincy, or H-Town, give a thought to your relatives |
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What is Hip?
Seydou Keita + Nontsikelelo Veleko = FASHION. Focus. The left eye takes in Bamakois in black and white circa post-independence Mali and the right wanders through the vibrant |
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Shutter Speeds
We're seeing a tidal wave of new stories coming into the West out of Africa, of both the visual and literary varieties. Namely, we note that a number |
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Africa Snap
We've been taken with the photography of African artists since we first laid eyes on one of Malick Sidibé's signature Malian portraits--you know the one--that kid leaning back |
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Painted Ladies
We've recently learned that our friend Wangechi Mutu is among the over one hundred women artists to be featured in the Brooklyn Museum's spring exhibition Global Feminisms, which |
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Mixed Media
We love it when we can address the interests of a number of readers with a single article. To wit, the Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis, USA is |
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Ride the Wave
Yesterday, we mentioned how many of the historical records of World War II stop short of mentioning the involvement of African soldiers. Phillip Harvey, the founder and editor |
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War Wounds
Guilty as charged. We realized that when imagining World War II soldiers, we invariably picture various Americans, Europeans, Japanese, and a few sundry others. With his new project, |
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Brooklyn Class
In celebration of the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s upcoming photography exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005, the museum has called on long-time Brooklyn photographer Delphine Fawundu-Buford to |
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Dust Off
Roz Payne has more black historical documents stuffed under her bed than most of us will probably ever lay hands on, much less own. As a founding member |
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Viva Minneapolis
Bill Cottman is keeping up with artists half his age in incorporating new media and technology into his work. Scratch that: he's surpassing a good number of them. |
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Nsenga Knight at Harriet’s Alter Ego
We wish we had gotten Code Z running a few days earlier so we could have announced the August 6th opening reception of "She Shootin'!" at Harriet’s Alter |
