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DESCRIPTION:\n	Radcliffe Bailey’s “Thirst Traps”: On the Visual Aesthetic Mu
 sicality of Black Art\n	\n	Nikki A. Greene\n	Professor of Art History\, Welle
 sley College\n	https://www.wellesley.edu/art/faculty/greene\n\nAbstract\n	In
  this lecture\, Nikki A. Greene theorizes how “visual aesthetic musicality
 \,” a newly coined term\, reflects sonic associations in Black art. Taking
  liberty with the contemporary slang\, “thirst trap\,” Greene explores Rad
 cliffe Bailey’s glitter-laden multimedia works as African diasporic self-p
 resentations created to attract audiences by calling attention to the surf
 ace. From Michael Jackson’s Jheri curl in the 1980s to Bailey’s own appear
 ance in Arrested Development’s music video\, “Tennessee\,” in 1992 to Kehi
 nde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama in 2018\, thirst traps abound that mu
 se on Black identities\, popular music\, and visual culture.\n\nBio\n	Nikki
  A. Greene\, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Art History at Wellesley Coll
 ege and the Visual Arts Editor of Transition magazine. Her forthcoming boo
 k\, Grime\, Glitter\, and Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Bl
 ack Art (Duke University Press) presents a new interpretation of the work 
 of Renée Stout\, Radcliffe Bailey\, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons\, and 
 considers the intersection between the body\, black identity\, and the son
 ic possibilities of the visual using key examples of painting\, sculpture\
 , photography\, performance\, and installation.\n\nGreene has written for 
 art museums\, including The Studio Museum in Harlem\, The Guggenheim Museu
 m\, Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery\, the Philadelphia
  Museum of Art\, among others. Her essays have appeared in American Studie
 s Journal\, Aperture\, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians 
 of American Art\, The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies\, and WBUR
  Boston. She published “Thomas McKellar sous rature: John Singer Sargent’s
  Erasure of a Black Model\,” for the recently opened exhibition\, Boston’s
  Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart G
 ardner Museum (February 2020). She is currently organizing two exhibitions
 : the first retrospective exhibition of the abstract painter Moe Brooker a
 t the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia (2022) and an exhibition on cont
 emporary performance art by black female artists.\n\nGreene is the recipie
 nt of numerous fellowships\, including the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 
 at Wellesley College\, the Woodrow Wilson Career Advancement Fellowship\, 
 the Richard D. Cohen Fellowship in the W. E. B. DuBois Research Institute 
 at the Hutchins Center for Research in African and African American Cultur
 e at Harvard University\, a Ucross Foundation Residency Writing Fellowship
  in Wyoming\, and a Summer Faculty Fellow at the Newhouse Center for the H
 umanities at Wellesley College.\n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Speaker Series | Nikki A. Greene: 'Radcliffe Bailey’s “Thirst Traps
 ”: On the Visual Aesthetic Musicality of Black Art'
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