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Musings on Visual Aesthetic Musicality

Nikki A. Greene will focus on Radcliffe Bailey's multilayered surfaces of glitter and recycled materials to meditate on aspects of Black culture from Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism to ...

4/23/2025
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Haldeman 246
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

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From Nikki A. Greene’s recent book, Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art, (Duke University Press, 2024), she will focus on the multimedia art of Radcliffe Bailey and his appearance in Arrested Development’s music video “Tennessee” as a college student in 1992. She employs her concept of “visual aesthetic musicality” to interpret his use of multilayered surfaces of glitter and recycled materials to meditate on aspects of Black culture from Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism to even Michael Jackson’s jheri curl hairstyle.

About the speaker:

Nikki A. Greene, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College. Her book, Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke University Press, 2024) was selected by Hyperallergic as one of the top 30 art books of 2024. 
Greene has written for several museums, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Guggenheim Museum, Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Her essays have also appeared in American Studies Journal, Aperture, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, among others. 

 

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