#theblackbody

[richardstuartperkins]

FS #072218-2. blackamerica #queermetaphors #culturewars #gaypride2018 #me #Stuart #getit #myeye #photoplay #gottogo #artphotography #blackandwhite #instagay #newphotography #photooftheday #memo #capturetheworld #nyc #brooklyn #art #newart #portraitphotography #blackartist #queerartist #style #thebody #theblackbody #theblackmalebody (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

[travelingasafamily]

This intimate portrait of dance icon and actress Carmen de Lavallade spans an unparalleled six-decade career working with luminaries Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Josephine Baker, Alvin Ailey, and many others. In the N.Y. Premiere of Ms. de Lavallade’s solo performance, poignant movement, film, and storytelling weave an unforgettable memoir about her venerable life on stage.

http://bacnyc.org/performances/performance/carmen-de-lavallade

[amaptoyou]

In Iron Cages, his comparative study of race relations in the nineteenth century, historian Ronald Takaki has proposed that these opposing identities increasingly equated European Americans with the mind and non-whites with the body.

Tomas Almaguer, Racial Fault Lines 

[arcmagazine-blog]

ARC's Junior Arts Writer Tiana Reid interviews Guyanese-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Kwesi Abbensetts, expanding on his focus of "making black skin, the black aesthetic…beautiful."  Abbensetts discusses what attracts him to his subjects, the spontaneity involved in his work, and the freedom that affords him in capturing certain moments as he uses his practice to reference his experience growing up in the Caribbean and explore his current surroundings in New York. See more here: http://bit.ly/1g2ErDq