THE LEADING BLACKS

"Today's black leaders, I'm afraid, have become leading blacks. And you don't ever confuse the two. Black leaders are chosen by us...The leading blacks are chosen by the media." —Dr. Julia Hare

ETERNAL REVERENCE

Kara Walker Forever and Ever

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Art is about Isolation, Expression, Fellowship, Truth, Clarity, Critical Thinking, Dreams. Kola Boof

♥ JEAN-PAUL GOUDE’S WORK AND THAT THERE’S A RETROSPECTIVE ON FOR HIM.

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Jean Paul Goude,  photographer, artist, former partner of Grace Jones, has had a storied 40-year career and his first retrospective has opened at the Musée des Arts decoratifs in Paris. The exhibit covers everything from videos and portraits he created for Grace Jones, advertising campaigns for brands such as Chanel, fashion shoots for magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, and the parade he orchestrated for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution down the Champs-Elysées.

“Goudemalion: A Retrospective of the Life and Work of Jean-Paul Goude” will be on view until March 18th, 2012 in Paris.

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♥ ZANELE MUHOLI’S PORTRAITS OF BLACK LESBIANS AND TRANSMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA Mbali Zulu, KwaThema, Springs, Johannesburg, 2010 (above). Zanele Muholi’s Faces and Phases at Art Statements - Art Basel. Muholi shows 66 new portraits in this ongoing series which offers an insider’s perspective on the lives of the black lesbians and transmen she has met on her journeys as an activist. Collectively, the portraits are at once a visual statement and an archive: marking, mapping and preserving an often invisible community for posterity. Muholi writes:In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is black queer visibility. Faces and Phases is about our histories and the struggles that we face. Faces express the person, and Phases signify the transition from one stage of sexuality or gender expression and experience to another. Faces is also about the face-to-face confrontation between myself as the photographer/activist and the many lesbians, women and transmen I have interacted with from different places. Photographs in this series traverse spaces from Gauteng, Cape Town, Mafikeng and Botswana to Sweden. (via STEVENSON | Zanele Muholi;gray37)

♥ ZANELE MUHOLI’S PORTRAITS OF BLACK LESBIANS AND TRANSMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Mbali Zulu, KwaThema, Springs, Johannesburg, 2010 (above).

Zanele Muholi’s Faces and Phases at Art Statements - Art Basel. Muholi shows 66 new portraits in this ongoing series which offers an insider’s perspective on the lives of the black lesbians and transmen she has met on her journeys as an activist. Collectively, the portraits are at once a visual statement and an archive: marking, mapping and preserving an often invisible community for posterity. Muholi writes:

In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is black queer visibility. Faces and Phases is about our histories and the struggles that we face. Faces express the person, and Phases signify the transition from one stage of sexuality or gender expression and experience to another. Faces is also about the face-to-face confrontation between myself as the photographer/activist and the many lesbians, women and transmen I have interacted with from different places. Photographs in this series traverse spaces from Gauteng, Cape Town, Mafikeng and Botswana to Sweden.

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