Smithsonian Folkways – “Fredrick Douglass” from 1908 speech by Mary Church Terrel read by Ruby Dee. 1977.
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In regards of the fictional artist Donelle Woolford inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
In the art world, inhabiting a fictional character in order to produce work is not new. Marcel Duchamp had a female alter ego called Rrose Sélavy. There is Lester Hayes, the African American artist conjured by a pair of white New York gallerists. At the 2008 Whitney Biennial there was a Miami collective called BLCK, not really a collective, but the invention of a single Haitian-born artist. And late last year, L.A.’s Launch Gallery showed the work of the Namaak Collective, a group that was allegedly founded in Amsterdam, but is actually the work of Los Angeles artists Marischa Slusarski and Britt Ehringer.
Carolina A. Miranda at the LA Times.
My solo show at Newman Popiashvili gallery, Blck, Red & Tang opens May 15, 7 p.m.
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