Contemporary Art / Exhibitions / Lectures / Symposia · December 31, 2015

“Post-Black Art in Sight and Hindsight: Freedom, Duration, and Diffusion”

A lecture delivered on the occasion of “New Attitudes: Varied Perspectives on Black Identity and Changing Artistic Expressions,” a conference held on November 5, 2015 in conjunction with the exhibition 30 Americans at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

This talk presents a brief historiography of the term “post-black” as applied to the visual arts,  analyzing the transformations in its definition and interpretation since the turn of the 21st century.

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