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With the publication of her new book *As We See It*, about the groundbreaking work of a new wave of Black artists, Aida Amoako takes a close look at three artists taking collage and appropriation in a whole new direction
With the publication of her new book *As We See It*, about the groundbreaking work of a new wave of Black artists, Aida Amoako takes a close look at three artists taking collage and appropriation in a whole new direction
Back in 1982, Joseph Beuys proposed a radical plan to plant 7000 oak trees in the German city of Kassel. Nearly forty years later, British artist Ackroyd & Harvey (Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey) talk to Aida Amoako about planting new trees outside the Tate Modern with acorns gathered from Beuys' original project
Back in 1982, Joseph Beuys proposed a radical plan to plant 7000 oak trees in the German city of Kassel. Nearly forty years later, British artist Ackroyd & Harvey (Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey) talk to Aida Amoako about planting new trees outside the Tate Modern with acorns gathered from Beuys' original project
Black Eyed Peas have been praised for a supposed return to their "political roots" away from the "party bangers" of now-ten-year-old The E.N.D. But, argues Aida Amoako, the group have always had a politicised Afrofuturism at the heart of what they do.
Black Eyed Peas have been praised for a supposed return to their "political roots" away from the "party bangers" of now-ten-year-old The E.N.D. But, argues Aida Amoako, the group have always had a politicised Afrofuturism at the heart of what they do.