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Simeon Solomon, Infamous Jewish Pre-Raphaelite

On the 14^th of August 1905, English Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon died in London. He is famous for his dreamy paintings with subjects which often included scenes from the Hebrew Bible and genre paintings depicting Jewish life and rituals. Infamously, in 1873, at the age of 32, his career was cut short when he was arrested in a public urinal at Stratford Place Mews, off Oxford Street, in London and charged with attempting to commit sodomy. “He was tried and condemned to eighteen months’ imprisonment with light labour, later commuted to six weeks in the Clerkenwell House of Correction and a £100 fine, for ‘gross indecency’. Unlike Oscar Wilde twenty years later, who managed to maintain a public presence despite the infamy, Solomon was eclipsed by this judgment, even though it attracted no press attention. His closest friends, including Rossetti and Swinburne, ostracised him, and he lived…

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Black and Cuba Scene Study: Monument to the Maroons

The Progress

Director Dr. Robin J. Hayes discusses the historical and cultural significance of the Monument to the Maroons.

Want to learn more? Click HERE to watch Black and Cuba in full, or check out BlackandCuba.org if you are an educator looking to screen the film at your institution.

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Archive Materials: Feminism, Performance and Art History in the UK

Writing Feminist Art Histories

We are very pleased to announce a one day research symposium at the University of St Andrews on 7 October 2015. Archive Materials will adopt an expanded notion of the archive as a starting point to address the long history of feminist art and art history production in the UK. Building on the rich array of recent scholarship focussing on feminist art of the 1970s and 1980s, our discussion will look back to include significant eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century precedents. Confirmed speakers include: Prof Hilary Robinson, Freya Gowrley, and Rachel Rose Smith, with more to be announced very soon.

Further information, including booking details: Archive Materials Announcement.

This event was kindly supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, and has been organised by Catherine Spencer (St Andrews) and Victoria Horne (Edinburgh).

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When A Brown Actor Plays A White Character, Who Really Wins?

Dark Matters

I should be thrilled that the star of Mr. Robot is Egyptian-American. Instead, I’m disappointed.

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San Francisco State University John & Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies

Race and Ethnic Studies Funding Opportunities

Deadline: September 30

Length: Tenure-track

Comments: To be filled “at the level of tenure-track assistant professor.” “The department will consider applications from scholars in a wide array of disciplines, including (but not limited to) anthropology, art history, cultural studies, education, ethics, history, literature, media studies, modern Jewish thought, philosophy, political science, religious studies, sociology, and women’s/gender studies.”

URL: http://csucareers.calstate.edu/Detail.aspx?pid=48139

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The Jewish Ghetto and Photonostalgia: Roman Vishniac’s Vanished World

A R T L▼R K

On the 19^th of August 1897, one of the world’s most remarkable microbiologists and naturalist photographers, Roman Vishniac was born in Pavlovsk, the Russian Empire. Within the art world, however, he is best remembered for his photojournalistic coverage of the Eastern European Jewish ghettos prior to World War II. In the late 1930s, Vishniac was commissioned by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to photograph the Jewish poor of Eastern Europe. Out of the sixteen thousand photographs he managed to take, only two thousand survived. Most of them have been published several times in book form as Polish Jews (1947), A Vanished World (1969), and To Give Them Light(1992).

Vishniac’s body of work has come to be thought of as the last photographic record of a universe on the cusp of being comprehensively and cataclysmically destroyed. His pictures were used in so many influential books about…

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California Institute of the Arts Faculty Position in Contemporary Art Theory

Race and Ethnic Studies Funding Opportunities

Deadline: October 1

Length: Unstated

Comments: “The School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. . . invite[s] applications for a full-time faculty position in contemporary art theory, with an emphasis on political thought. Approaches that foreground race and gender are particularly welcome.”

URL: https://calarts.edu/employment/contemporary-art-theory-faculty-position-ma-aesthetics-and-politics-programbfa-critical-s

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Director Jose Antonio Vargas’ documentary “White People” confronts White privilege in America

Worn: Shaping Black Feminine Identity

Karin Jones

In September 2014, I received a commission to create an installation at the Royal Ontario Museum on the theme of African identity and Canadian history. I have just completed this work, and it will open January 31! The work consists of a Victorian mourning dress made of braided synthetic hair extensions, surrounded by a bed of natural cotton bolls, some of which are altered to contain tufts of my own hair. The installation will stand alone in the Wilson Canadian Heritage Gallery, within the Sigmund Samuels Gallery of Canada. The exhibition will run until November 2015.

Read my artist statement here.

Here is a video discussion by some of the curators and advisors talking about my work (skip to the 18 minute mark) and about the Of Africa initiative, a 3-year program of exhibitions and events about Africa and the African Diaspora.