First Published May 8, 2008
Dawoud Bey has an excellent blog here. I particularly recopmmend a recent article addressing a great unspoken sin of the Chicago artworld --- racism. As the feminist theorist from the Netherlands, Anna Meulenbelt, expressed it so well, the destructive agents in our cultures at present are like the skin of an onion: racism, sexism and classism. We will not be able to detroy any of these without also attacking the others. Let's start, as best as always, at home in our "little artworld."
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Image: Carl Pope, "The Bad Air Smelled of Roses" (detail)
"I'm from New York, so I
can't say I was entirely ready for the level of racial segregation I
found here in Chicago upon moving here some ten years ago. Don't get me
wrong, it's not like I hadn't been here before. I've had family here for
twenty-one years,..."
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