#blackness

[ follow ]
Philosophy
fromTruthout
2 days ago

Trump Administration Is Using Christianity to Justify Murder and Empire

Whiteness functions as a mask for historical violence, creating an illusion of innocence while being structurally predicated on the dehumanization of Black people.
fromDocumentjournal
2 months ago

Usher on masculinity, memory, and building a legacy

Representing a career that spans genre and sound, Usher's ambition both challenges and provokes. Perhaps this is why the Atlanta-born singer continues to occupy popular culture, not only through his Grammy Award-winning recordings, but also across fashion and the fine arts, where he has emerged as a patron and collector. He identifies career as a collage. Evolution does not mean abandoning the past, but layering it, building new meaning atop experience, vulnerability, and history.
Music
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel

Looking to the Middle Ages for answers to the perennial puzzles of life can seem quaint, even artificial, a long reach across centuries marked by violence, hierarchy, and exclusion. And yet medieval culture offers a way of thinking about love that still speaks to the present. If love is most urgently tested in moments of strain and upheaval, then it is in those moments - where care is stressed or obscured - that its meaning comes most clearly into view.
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Victoria Dugger Reinterprets the American Flag in Glitter and Fringe

When Victoria Dugger encountered Jasper Johns' " Flag " during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in 2024, she found herself contemplating similar ideas. The encaustic painting is one of Johns' most recognizable works and revels in ambiguity: although it bears stars and stripes, it's not an exact representation of Old Glory, nor is it solely a gestural, abstract work. Instead, "Flag" prompts questions about motif, material, and meaning that defy any singular narrative.
Arts
Music
fromDocumentjournal
4 months ago

Usher on masculinity, memory, and building a legacy

Usher blends musical evolution, Black cultural legacy, and city influences into creative work and advocacy, translating New York boldness into Ralph's Club New York.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 months ago

All I Want for Christmas Is More Art Books

Explorations of Blackness and the color blue reveal connections between historical trauma, visual practice, and overlooked artists across notable contemporary art publications.
Music
fromPitchfork
4 months ago

JJJJJerome Ellis: Vesper Sparrow

A composer transforms their glottal-block stutter into a musical instrument to explore Black family legacy, temporal dilation, intimacy, and improvisation.
[ Load more ]