Tag: La Négresse

• Time Travel with La Négresse

  

  It is no coincidence that I experienced “La Négresse” by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux while at the Berkeley Art Museum last week.  At the time I was reading “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, a pseudo science fiction novel (for lack of a better genre) set simultaneously in slavery and 1976.  In the book a woman is transported…

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  September 14, 2016

  Art, Art/Culture, Contemporary Art, sculpture, Uncategorized

  After La Négresse, Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum, Contain de l’Observatoire, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Kehinde Wiley BAMPFA, La Négresse, museums, Paris