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    Beyond the Canvas

    An art blog with opinions

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    Titus Kaphar's Shifting the Gaze, 2017
    Beyond the Canvas
    • Aug 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    Titus Kaphar's Shifting the Gaze, 2017

    Painting is a visual language where everything in the painting is meaningful, is important, is coded. But sometimes, because of the compositional hierarchy, it's hard to see other things. - Titus Kaphar In 2017, Titus Kaphar hosted a TED talk whose title was "Can art amend history?" It's an impassioned speech during which he tells the story of how he first came to engage with art and some the struggles that went with it. Do look it up. While on stage, Kaphar unveils a copy h
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    Sojourner Truth, the only Black woman invited to The Dinner Party
    Beyond the Canvas
    • Jul 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    Sojourner Truth, the only Black woman invited to The Dinner Party

    Rivers of ink, including a tiny bit of mine, have been written about Judy Chicago's seminal installation The Dinner Party. But it only recently occurred to me (duh) that for a project whose primary objective was the celebration of women's contribution to history, this is an extraordinarily non-inclusive piece. In fact, of the 39 place settings only one is dedicated to a non-white woman, African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth. The debate is a
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