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Watch: Samantha Sheppard previews her book Sporting Blackness

Mar 17 2021
This guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.In this video, scholar Samantha Sheppard offers a sneak peek at her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen."In her fusion of theories of race and
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Watch: Jordana Saggese previews her new Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader

Feb 11 2021
This guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had so
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