The Light of God: The Importance of Light in the Ottoman Mosques of Istanbul
When trying to understand the importance of light in the Ottoman mosques of Istanbul, should we not endeavour to apprehend a sense of what that…
Author: Kafayat
Pt V: Navigating Blackness – Exploring the Decolonization of Art History through the work of Kehinde Wiley.
A Conclusion: The End of the Beginning It seems rather unusual to end a discussion with more questions, but that has been the nature of…
Pt IV: Navigating Blackness – Exploring the Decolonization of Art History through the work of Kehinde Wiley.
Navigating Blackness in Eighteenth-Century Britain The politics of a good likeness; the power of representation. These are concepts, which one might contemplate within the seemingly…
Pt III: Navigating Blackness – Exploring the Decolonization of Art History through the work of Kehinde Wiley.
Kehinde Wiley Within this discussion on the decolonization of art history, we cannot help but to try and imagine what it might look like in…
Pt II: Navigating Blackness – Exploring the Decolonization of Art History through the work of Kehinde Wiley.
Decolonizing Art History When we are confronted with images thought to represent the height of elegance, sensibility or “politeness,” it seems rather taxing to link…
Pt I: Navigating Blackness – Exploring the Decolonization of Art History through the work of Kehinde Wiley.
A Short Introduction Black Lives Matter[1]. Three simple words, which hold at their core, centuries of the systematic covering and scrubbing of the presence and…
Barkley Hendricks: Brown Sugar “Cool”
“Cool.” To many, this is an everyday phrase we use when we find something or someone good or agreeable. To describe a thing or idea…