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Dans cette émission, nous accueillons Laurence Bardini qui est secrétaire général à l’Hexagone Scène Nation Art et Science pour une présentation du programme 2024/2025 de l’Hexagone. Plusieurs sujets traitaient dans cette interview comme l’importance de la salle de théâtre par... Continue Reading →

Episode 74 features Ashley James, Ph.D., Associate Curator, Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the curator of Off the Record (2021) and co-curator of The Hugo Boss Prize: Deana Lawson, Centropy (2021). Prior to joining the Guggenheim, James served as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she was the curator for the museum's presentation of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018–19), organized Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room (2019), and co-curated John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance (2020-21). James also served as a Mellon Curatorial Fellow in Drawing and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, where her work focused on the groundbreaking retrospectives of Adrian Piper (2018) and Charles White (2018–19), and has held positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Yale University Art Gallery, where she co-organized the exhibition Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection (2015). James holds a BA from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Yale University in English literature and African American studies, with a certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies. Guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/staff/ashley-james Yale https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/ashley-james-named-guggenheim-curator-makes-history Yale https://gsas.yale.edu/news/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/arts/design/guggenheim-black-curator.html Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2019/11/30/meet-guggenheims-first-black-curator-ashley-james/ NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-sees-certain-kind-possibility-new-role-rcna1260 Essence https://www.essence.com/culture/ashley-james-want-us-to-look-off-the-record/ W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/guggenheim-curator-ashley-james-culture-diet-interview Marie Claire https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a34691447/ashley-james-guggenheim-museum/ Artnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ashley-james-curator-guggenheim-museum-13581/ Brooklyn Museum – Soul of a Nation https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/soul_of_a_nation

Welcome to Shattering the Glass Ceiling, a podcast from the team at the Art Angle where we speak to boundary-breaking women in the art world and beyond about how art has shaped their lives and careers. In the first episode of this four-part podcast mini series, Artnet News executive editor Julia Halperin spoke to Lauren Haynes, the director of artist initiatives and curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Arkansas. In June, she will take on the role of Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasser senior curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Haynes, who was born in East Tennessee and grew up in New York, has worked in museums including the Brooklyn Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem, curating distinctive and influential shows on artists like Alma Thomas and Stanley Whitney. She has worked at Crystal Bridges since 2016, where she helmed the first U.S. presentation of the exhibition “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” (2018), which traveled from the U.K.

Welcome to Shattering the Glass Ceiling, a podcast from the team at the Art Angle where we speak to boundary-breaking women in the art world and beyond about how art has shaped their lives and careers. In the first episode of this four-part podcast mini series, Artnet News executive editor Julia Halperin spoke to Lauren Haynes, the director of artist initiatives and curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Arkansas. In June, she will take on the role of Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasser senior curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Haynes, who was born in East Tennessee and grew up in New York, has worked in museums including the Brooklyn Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem, curating distinctive and influential shows on artists like Alma Thomas and Stanley Whitney. She has worked at Crystal Bridges since 2016, where she helmed the first U.S. presentation of the exhibition “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” (2018), which traveled from the U.K.

In episode 54 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the LEGENDARY artist Howardena Pindell !!!! [This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!] Working across a variety of mediums, from painting to film, and who has employed a range of unconventional materials, such as glitter to talcum powder; since the late 1960s, Howardena Pindell has examined a wide range of subject matter, from the personal, historical, political and social for her highly important and activistic like work that deals with racism, feminism, violence and exploitation. Born in 1943 in Philadelphia, Pindell first studied painting at Boston University and later Yale University, and upon graduating, accepted a job in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum of Modern Art, where she remained for 12 years, from 1967 to 1979. A co-founder of the pioneering feminist A.I.R Gallery, Pindell is also a professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where she has been since 1979.  Renowned early works include her mesmeric and labour intensive, pointillist paintings of the 1970s, created by spraying paint through a template, and Free, White and 21, a video made in 1980 in which the artist plays herself and, wearing a mask, a white woman, whose conversation relays Pindell’s own experiences of racism, which was first shown at artist Ana Mendieta’s curated exhibition at AIR in 1980.  Currently the subject of a major exhibition right now at New York’s The Shed, a show examining the violent, historical trauma of racism in America and the therapeutic power of artistic creation, other recent museum solo exhibitions have included at the MCA Chicago, Rose Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as an upcoming exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge.  Pindell has also featured in recent landmark group exhibitions such as the touring Soul of a Nation: Art in the age of Black Power, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–1985 at the Brooklyn Museum, and WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, at LACMA. Among many many others.  Addressing important subjects that continue to educate people around the world, when asked about her viewers Howardena recently said in an interview, “I want them to look at the hidden history instead of the history we were taught”. And that is why we are so lucky to have her work out on the world stage, and I couldn't be more delighted to be speaking with her today. ENJOY!!! FURTHER LINKS! https://www.howardenapindell.org/https://theshed.org/program/143-howardena-pindell-rope-fire-water https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2018/Howardena-Pindell https://www.garthgreenan.com/artists/howardena-pindell https://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/216-howardena-pindell/ Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Laura Hendry  Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

Episode No. 465 features artist Virginia Jaramillo. The Menil Collection is presenting "Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969-74" through July 3, 2021. It is the first solo museum exhibition of Jaramillo's sixty-year career. Curated by Michelle White, the show features a series of paintings that Jaramillo made featuring the joining of line to color against mostly monochromatic backgrounds. The exhibition is also a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of "The De Luxe Show," one of the first racially integrated exhibitions in the United States, which was presented in Houston in 1971. (Art historian Darby English's book 1971: A Year in the Life of Color examined the exhibition. English discussed the book on The MAN Podcast in 2017.) Jaramillo is a California-born painter whose abstractions have long explored space, line, geography and the physical remnants of civilizations. In the last decade alone, she has been included in major scholarly exhibitions such as curator and art historian Kellie Jones's "Now Dig This: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-80" and "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties," which Jones curated with A. Carbone, and Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley's "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power." Jaramillo's paintings are in the collections of museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Kemper in Kansas City, the Metropolitan in New York, the Norton Simon in Pasadena and the Virginia MFA in Richmond.

Episode No. 452 is a holiday clips episode featuring artist Beuford Smith and art historian Shaina Larrivee. Smith is featured in two exhibitions that are on view at recently re-opened American art museums: "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" at the MFA Houston, and "Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop" at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Hedda Sterne Foundation director Shaina Larrivee discusses “Hedda Sterne: Imagination & Machine” at the Des Moines Art Center.

Die Künstlerin Faith Ringgold wächst in einer ziemlich turbulenten Zeit, im New York der 60er Jahre auf, was sich deutlich in ihrem Werk widerspiegelt. Kunst als Ware?! Für Faith ist Kunst eine politische Plattform! Den täglichen und undokumentierten Rassismus und die Polizeigewalt auf den Straßen New Yorks hielt sie in ihren Werken fest, stand auf, setzte sich für die Gleichberechtigung Schwarzer Künstler*innen ein und hatte so nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die Präsenz dieser in der westlichen Kunstwelt. What an iconic woman! Quellen: Hanson, Debra. Review of Faith Ringgold: Paintings and Story Quilts, 1964–2017, Poppy Houldsworth Gallery, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 4, no. 2 (2018). Exhibition Catalogue. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Publishing (2017) Monahan, Anne. Faith Ringgold, DIE, The Riot and Its Reception. Journal of Contemporary African Art, No. 36 (2015) Bradshaw, Amy. Refiguring history : the works of Faith Ringgold and Kara Walker. Honors Theses (2007) Jones Sage, Jacqueline. Faith Ringgold: An American Artist Royster. Pro Quest (1987) Ogette, Tupoka. Exit Racism – Rassismuskritisch denken lernen. Auflage 8 (2020) Haster, Alice. Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten. Auflage 7 (2019) Hackenschmidt S. (2011) Primitivismus. In: Pfisterer U. (eds) Metzler Lexikon Kunstwissenschaft. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/bayard-rustin-2/the-watts/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-11-me-watts11-story.html https://www.dw.com/de/schwarze-kunst-im-zeitalter-der-black-power/a-39662266# https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/guernica https://m.bpb.de/politik/extremismus/rechtsextremismus/213678/was-ist-eigentlich-rassismus http://www.exitracism.de/index.html https://www.moma.org/collection/works/199915 Videos: „Who I Am“, Read 180 Videos “Faith Ringgold – Artist & Activist”, MAKERS “Taking Flight: An Interview with Faith Ringgold”, IWL Rutgers “Faith Ringgold, Artist”, Eldridge & Co. “An Evening with Faith Ringgold”, MoMa LIVE

We speak to Director of Chisenhale Gallery Zoé Whitley about her work co-curating the 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power' exhibition and art in the context of Black Lives Matter.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! In this special broadcast we speak to Lauren Palmor, co-curator of the "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" exhibition at the de Young museum through Sunday, March 15, 2020. Visit https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/soul-of-a-nation                                                      2. We close with a rebroadcast of the Feb. 14 show which includes an interview with Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough re BCFHN 16 which closed last weekend.  What is special about this broadcast is BCFHN's Izzy Award March 24, 6-7:30 p.m. at Brava Theatre in SF.  Visit https://www.brava.org/all-events/2014/3/24/the-isadora-duncan-awards  

At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, Mike Henderson, accomplished musician and Bay Area artist included in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power​ at the de Young Museum, performed a special musical set highlighting the influence of blues music on African American artists from the 1960s-1980s. Listen now to hear Henderson and his band perform, and check out Writer in Residence, Brian Boucher's take on the performance at Pier 35 on Friday, January 17, 2020: https://medium.com/@UNTITLEDARTFAIR/

At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco, Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, conversed with gallerist Michael Rosenfeld to discuss Michael Rosenfeld Gallery's curated presentation of artists exhibited in "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983." The gallery's booth presentation at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco will included works by such seminal artists as Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, and William T. Williams, among others. The conversation ranges in topics, from the prominence of abstraction in Soul of a Nation, the place of Africa in African American art, and the gallery's long history exhibiting Black artists as well as the "discovery" of many older Black artists in today's contemporary artworld. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.

Sights and Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. This week, host Jeneé Darden sits down with author and educator Lisa D. Gray to talk about three events happening around the Bay Area this weekend. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 at the de Young Museum Just Mercy Black and Brown Comix Art Festival in San Francisco The beautiful de Young Museum’s latest exhibition is Soul of a Nation . It focuses on the work of Black artists, particularly those from the Bay Area, during the Black Power Movement. The exhibit runs until March 15th. The de Young, located in San Francisco, is also hosting several discussions and other events related to the Black Power Movement. Check out the museum’s website for information about free and discounted entry . Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larsen star in the new critically acclaimed film Just Mercy . The movie is based on the riveting memoir of the same name. It

In Episode 13 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews one of the most important and groundbreaking curators working today, Dr Zoe Whitley on BETYE SAAR!! And WOW was it incredible to record with Zoe at London's Hayward Gallery – where she is senior curator – to discuss the life and work of the now 93 year-old Betye, who featured in Zoe's 2017 Tate Modern (and now touring) exhibition, SOUL OF A NATION!  Betye Saar is one of the most important artists in contemporary art, and currently has solo exhibitions on right now at both MoMA and LACMA! Known for her political collages and assemblages of found objects that mix surreal symbolic imagery with a folk art aesthetic, Saar has contributed enormously to the history of art from her involvement with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s, right up to the present day. Growing up in the 30s and 40s in Los Angeles, Saar was inspired by Joseph Cornell’s assemblages and Simon Rodia’s “Watts Towers” nearby to where she grew up made from found scrap materials.   Raised by strong women who always encouraged her creativity, as well as identity as a black woman, Saar’s work predominately critiques American racism toward blacks. It was in the 1960s that she began collecting images of stereotypes African-American figures from folk culture and advertising of the Jim Crow era, which she transformed into figures of political protest.   A work we discuss in depth is “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” which remains one of her most important works from this era (also exhibited at Zoe's incredible “Soul of a Nation”), a mixed-media assemblage which uses the stereotypical figure of the ‘mammy’ to subvert traditions of race and gender.   Speaking about the work she said: “I feel that The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is my iconic art piece. I had no idea she would become so important to so many. The reason I created her was to combat bigotry and racism and today she stills serves as my warrior against those ills of our society.” She is INCREDIBLE, and a force. And Zoe's enthusiasm, personal approach and expertise in Betye Saar is SO inspiring!!!   If you want to see more then DO NOT miss Zoe's co-curated "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983" currently on view at San Francisco's de Young Museum (https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/soul-of-a-nation); and for those in LA and NYC don't miss her show at MoMA (https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5060) and LACMA (https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/betye-saar-call-and-response). . GO BETYE! Works discussed in this episode/ Further reading Black Girls Window (1969) https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/302The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972) http://revolution.berkeley.edu/liberation-aunt-jemima/ Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/soul-nation-art-age-black-power Here is also an incredible essay recently published in the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/arts/design/betye-saar.html Thank you for listening!! This episode is sponsored by the National Art Pass and the Affordable Art Fair! @artfund: https://bit.ly/32HJVDk To receive a free tote bag with your National Art Pass, enter the code GREAT at checkout!  @affordableartfairuk: https://affordableartfair.com/ Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Recorded by Joel Price Sound editing by @_ellieclifford Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

Recorded April 29, 2019 "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines a bright light on the vital contribution Black artists made over two revolutionary decades in American history, beginning in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement. The exhibition examines the influences, from the civil rights and Black Power movements to Minimalism and developments in abstraction, on artists such as Romare Bearden, Barkley Hendricks, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, Charles White, and William T. Williams. Los Angeles-based artists appear throughout Soul of a Nation, and more deeply in three specific galleries, foregrounding the significant role of Los Angeles in the art and history of the civil rights movement and the subsequent activist era, and the critical influence and sustained originality of the city's artists, many of whom have lacked wider recognition. Featuring the work of more than 60 influential artists and including vibrant paintings, powerful sculptures, street photography, murals, and more, this landmark exhibition is a rare opportunity to see era-defining artworks that changed the face of art in America." - The Broad “So what's is the next step after Soul of a Nation? Is this the beginning of the retrospective for black art movements? Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 was a great insight into the artistic movements that existed during the Black Power era and serves as a visual history. Are era-based retrospectives the best way to understand the African-American contribution to the global art world? As I write this essay I think of what I've learned just by observation. The research of artworks allowed me to understand the artists' backgrounds, their materials, and how their use of them helped to change and develop the practice of artmaking. An excerpt from my research and review essay on Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963-1983 at The Broad Museum.

Our benevolent host Ashley Ford is back! First up: Yankees are out of the playoffs, the NY Giants are looking like peewees, and the Jets are having trouble taking off. USA Today’s sports writer Ted Berg phones in to answer the question: What’s a New York sports fan to do? Then, learn more about Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition, “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”, from Ashley James, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art.

Faced with the ubiquity of white supremacy in US culture, some are seeking new, radical ways to shift the conversation to center Black consciousness as a way to combat the poison of White supremacy. Two artists and educators, Shanti Peters and Joseph Cullier, founded The Black School to confront such realities. Hyperallergic editor Jasmine Weber spoke to the pair about the role of radical Black education and the "Black art world," in a special interview that comes on the heels of their residency and exhibition at the New Museum in New York. One of the things they discuss are is the group's tarot cards, which can be purchased in the group's online shop. Then Jasmine and I were joined by editor and critic Seph Rodney and contributor Shirine Saad to talk about the new Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition that opened at the Brooklyn Museum last weekend. And finally, we have our last segment. Earlier this week, LA-based writer Matt Stromberg reported on the "pause" artist lauren woods pressed on her American Monument project at Cal State Long Beach's museum. The action comes after the museum director Kimberli Meyer was fired. American Monument — a multi-media installation addressing police brutality and the killing of African Americans by police officers — was a project Meyer helped realize, so woods decided that a pause was a necessary act of solidarity in light of the news. Stromberg recorded the roughly 28-minute speech, and we have the recording for those who want to hear it first hand. A special thanks to Dried Spider for the music to this week’s episode. You can visit driedspider.bandcamp.com, for more information.

In this episode of Museum Way, we meet Shane Richey, Creative Director of Experimentation and Development, to talk about museums in the digital age. We also talk with Curator of Contemporary Art Lauren Haynes and Senior Museum Educator Moira Anderson about Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power and its opening Symposium that was streamed online by nearly 10k viewers.

Zoe Whitley, co-curator of "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" joins us for a conversation about curatorial practice, Black Culture in the US versus the UK, and why it was important to visit Spelman while in the States. Learn more about Zoe Whitley at zoewhitley.com Image courtesy of Andrew Dunkley, Tate Photography

A new entry into the ever growing Marvel Cinematic Universe is upon us and this merits a podcast to mark the occasion. Craig, Angus, Natalie and Aaron come together to provide their trademark witty commentary on this film and all things Marvel. The discussion went in many different directions from the film itself, its cultural impact and references, the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe and how Aaron reminds Natalie of Robin Cousins. Craig, Angus, Natalie and Aaron can all be found as writers on this very site as well as being avid contributors to many of the podcasts. Show Notes Craig's review of Black Panther Craig's review of Captain America: Civil War Our Captain America: Civil War podcast Craig's review of Thor: Ragnarok Our Thor: Ragnarok podcast Craig's review of Logan Our Logan podcast Craig's review of Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Our Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi podcast The Black Panther party The "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" exhibition An example of Robin Cousins talking If you enjoyed what you heard here then please do subscribe to Kneel Before Pod on iTunes, YouTube or any major podcasting app you can think of. If you have any feedback then we’re more than willing to listen to it. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter or just make yourself known in the comments section below.

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Kerry Shale, Tiffany Jenkins and Shahidha Bari as well as listeners around the country who choose the best of the arts from 2017 from across the genres. FILM Dunkirk Bladerunner 2049 78/52 Manchester by the Sea La-La Land Get Out Elle Frantz Land of Mine Wonder Woman Atomic Blonde THEATRE Boudica at the Globe Barbershop Chronicles Follies at the National Theatre Hamlet at the Pinter Theatre The Best Thing Finding Joy Gloria at Hampstead Theatre Network at the National Theatre Flight Pattern at the Royal Opera House The Ferryman at Royal Court The End of Hope at Orange Tree Theatre Consent at the National Theatre Girl From The North Country at the Old Vic Angels in America at the National Theatre The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca at Hull Truck BOOK The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman 4321 by Paul Auster Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders To Kill the President by Sam Bourne Stranger in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor ART Blade Nayan Kulkarni Jasper Johns at the Royal Academy of Arts Howard Hodgkin: Paintng India at the Hepworth Gallery Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern JW Anderson: Disobedient Bodies at the Hepworth Gallery Revolutionary Russia at the Royal Academy Kathe Kollwitz at Icon Gallery Frank Quitely at Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow Michelangelo and Sebastiano at the National Gallery Hokusai at the Victoria and Albert Museum TELEVISION The Handmaid's Tale Schitt's Creek GLOW Detectorists The Leftovers Mindhunter Ken Burn's The Vietnam War Wormwood The Good Fight Alias Grace Back The producer is Hilary Dunn.

Tate Modern offers a retrospective on the Art of the Black Power Movement in America and explores how 'Black Art' was defined by artists across the United States and its interplay with the civil rights movement. Rana Mitter is joined by Gaylene Gould, writer and artist and Head of Cinema and Events at the BFI, who reviews the 'Soul of A Nation' exhibition. Rana is also joined by the reggae poet and recording artist, Linton Kwesi Johnson "Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon"', as well as the film director H O Nazareth to talk about the artists and intellectuals who made up the British Black Panther leadership. Also joining in the conversation, Sandeep Parmar, a prize-winning poet and New Generation Thinker who argues that a new generation of critics and reviewers must be found to highlight the work of poets of colour in the UK. Also, Rana Mitter talks to intellectual historian Ibram X Kendi as his award-winning account of racist ideas in the United States comes out in the UK. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at London's Tate Modern 12/07/2017 - 22/10/2017Pres: Rana Mitter Guests: Linton Kwesi Johnson Gaylene Gould H O Nazareth Sandeep Parmar 'Eidolon', Winner of the inaugural Ledbury Forte Prize for Second Collections, is out now. Ibram X Kendi 'Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America' is out now.

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi: Politicians – Theresa May foremost among them – always begin their obfuscations and delusional self-justifications by pretending to offer clarity. Journalist James O'Brien joins us to discuss the past thirty-odd days in the world of Prime Minister May, from the flunked general election to the travesty of Grenfell Tower, in a quest for that most elusive of things – a clear and concrete plan; TLS Visual Arts editor Anna Vaux brings us a preview of Tate Modern's new exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, an examination of the role of black artists in the Civil Rights movement; historian Roy Foster considers the fraught new relationship between the Conservative Party and the Irish Democratic Unionist Party, finding parallels, and missed warnings, dating back more than 100 years See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.