Tag: Beauty

• The Archaic and “Masculine” Beauty: A Review of the Film ‘White Silk Dress’ (Áo lụa Hà Đông) by Tini Ngatini

  “My mother said a white silk dress is a symbol of Vietnamese women’s immense suffering as well as their generosity. Through traumatic hardship, through horrific destruction caused by countless wars, the Vietnamese white silk dress still maintains its beauty. The beauty of a Vietnamese woman cannot be characterized by white skin, rosy cheeks and red…

  December 13, 2017

  Traversing Narrow Margins

  art, art review, Beauty, colonialism, film, film review, postcolonial theory, reading, survival, survivors, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnamese film, White Silk Dress, women’s rights

• 20/20 at the Carnegie Museum of Art by James Carraghan

  

  20/20: An exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, July 22nd through December 31st 2017 REkOGNIZE: An installation by Bradford Young at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, June 16th through December 31st, 2017 When you explore the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the sheer number of…

  August 31, 2017

  InFinite Museums

  20/20, african american culture, African Art, Andy Warhol, art, artist, Basquiat, Beauty, bell hooks, black art, Bradford Young, Carnegie Museum, Charles Harris, collaboration, Ellen Gallagher, Elliott Carter, Gordon Parks, history, Horace Pippen, Howardena Pindell, Invisible Man, K.O.S., Kara Walker, Lorraine O’Grady, Malcolm X, Marie Cassatt, Maurice Berger, Meleko Mokgosi, other, Patricia J. Williams, photography, race, racism, Ralph Ellison, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Timm Rollins, white privilege