Slide Images for November 20

School Daze

Spike Lee

1988

In Living Color: Introducing Homie D. Clown

Damon Wayans

June 17, 1990

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Written by  Shawn & Marlon Wayans

Directed by Paris Barclay

1996

Scary Movie

Written by  Shawn & Marlon Wayans

Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans

2000

White Chicks

Written by  Keenen Ivory, Shawn & Marlon Wayans

Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans

2004

Bigger & Blacker

Chris Rock

1999

Terms of the Day for November 20

• In Living Color -  a sketch comedy television series, which originally ran on the Fox Network from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994, created and written by and staring the Wayans brothers. The title of the series was inspired by the NBC announcement of broadcasts being presented "in living color" during the 1950s and 1960s, prior to mainstream color television. It also refers to the fact that most of the show's cast was predominantly African-American, unlike other sketch comedy shows whose casts were usually mostly white.
• Spike Lee Joints – a term which refers to the films of African American filmmaker Spike Lee.  These films often explore American race relations and the closing credits always end with the phrases "By Any Means Necessary", "Ya Dig" and "Sho Nuff".
• Bigger & Blacker - an album by Chris Rock, originally released on July 13, 1999, on the Dreamworks label. The album features live stand-up comedy tracks recorded for an HBO special at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and studio-recorded comic sketches.

Slide Images for November 18

 Brotherhood, Crossroads and Etcetera

Lyle Ashton Harris

1994

 Hottentot Venus 2000

Lyle Ashton Harris (with Reneé Cox)

1995

 Hot-en-tot 

Reneé Cox

1994

 The Liberation of Lady J. and Uncle B.

Reneé Cox

1998

 Black Chalkboards

Garry Simmons

1993

 Fertile Ground

Alison Saar

1993

 Lost and Found

Alison Saar

2003

Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart

Kara Walker

1994

Terms of the Day for November 18

• Generation X - the generation born after the Western post-World War II baby boom, with birthdates from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.  This generation’s cultural outlook was influenced by several events, including the election of Ronald Reagan, Black Monday, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the election of George H.W. Bush, the election of Bill Clinton and the United States 1990s economic boom.
• Installation Art - an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces.

An Except from Adrian Piper's "Funk Lessons"

There used to be a full version of this video online.  This is all I can find now.  A short clip where someone pointed their camera at the video playing in a gallery.

Slide Images for November 16

 Eat Dem Taters

Robert Colescott

1975

 Graffiti with the tag SAMO©

Jean-Michel Basquiat

c. 1977-1980

 Flexible

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1984

 Mona Lisa

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1983

TOBACCO
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1984

 Horn Players

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1886

Guarded Conditions

Lorna Simpson

1989

 You’re Fine

Lorna Simpson

1988

 Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features

Adrian Piper

1981

 My Calling (Card) No. 2

Adrian Piper

1986

Vanilla Nightmares No. 8

Adrian Piper

1986

 Cornered

Adrian Piper

1988

 Desire
Martin Puryear
1981

 Old Mole
Martin Puryear
1985

Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear
1996

Terms of the Day for November 16

• Postmodern Art - a movement in Western art, spanning from the late 1970s until the present, which rejects the key ideas of modernism. 
• Pluralism - a Postmodern movement in art that assumes the cultural context of art should be all-encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's wide variety of cultures and artistic styles, and that diverse cultural and stylistic influences can coexist in a work of art.
• Appropriation - an artistic concept in which an artist uses an image already in existence and places it in a new context in order to give it new meanings.
• Graffiti - images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property.  Generally regarded as vandalism, the Postmodern era has recognized it as a legitimate artform.
• Pastiche - a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work or an artistic composition made up of selections from different works.
• Bricolage - the construction or creation of a work of art from a diverse range of things which happen to be available.