CLIFFORD THOMPSON How Harlem Saw Itself ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ “For generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being—a...
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ART CLIFFORD THOMPSON What’s the Big Idea? The conceptual art
of David Hammons For a baker’s dozen of years beginning in the late 1990s, I was the editor of a monthly reference journal called...
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ARTS CLIFFORD THOMPSON Keep Looking Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on
the Street The first thing you see when you enter the exhibit Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts...
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'We Fooled Em' CLIFFORD THOMPSON A passage in Walt Whitman’s seminal 1855 work, Leaves of Grass, reads, “And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not / something else, / And the...
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CLIFFORD THOMPSON ‘When Black Was Born’ Summer of Soul Soul music. The blues. Gospel. Jazz. All can be traced back to the same source, which is the experience of Black people in America, the...
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ARTS CLIFFORD THOMPSON 'There're People Living Under Here' 'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America' at the New Museum The word “mourning” makes one think of a funeral. That is often...
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LAST WORD CLIFFORD THOMPSON Roots and Reality I have thought a lot about a concept I call rootedness, which seems to me a fundamental human need. Being rooted in something—whether a community, a...
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BLACK & AMERICAN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? It means you learn to improvise Clifford Thompson W hen I left my adopted home of New York City to go to Spain, in 1991, I was twenty-seven...
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