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DESCRIPTION:Radcliffe Bailey’s “Thirst Traps”: On the Visual Aesthetic Musi
 cality of Black Art\n	Nikki A. GreeneProfessor of Art History\, Wellesley C
 ollege\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 liber
 ty with the contemporary slang\, “thirst trap\,” Greene explores Radcliffe
  Bailey’s glitter-laden multimedia works as African diasporic self-present
 ations created to attract audiences by calling attention to the surface. F
 rom Michael Jackson’s Jheri curl in the 1980s to Bailey’s own appearance i
 n Arrested Development’s music video\, “Tennessee\,” in 1992 to Kehinde Wi
 ley’s portrait of Barack Obama in 2018\, thirst traps abound that muse on 
 Black identities\, popular music\, and visual culture.\n\nBio\n	Nikki A. Gr
 eene\, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Art History at Wellesley College an
 d the Visual Arts Editor of Transition magazine. Her forthcoming book\, Gr
 ime\, Glitter\, and Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Black Ar
 t (Duke University Press) presents a new interpretation of the work of Ren
 ée Stout\, Radcliffe Bailey\, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons\, and consid
 ers the intersection between the body\, black identity\, and the sonic pos
 sibilities of the visual using key examples of painting\, sculpture\, phot
 ography\, performance\, and installation.\n\nGreene has written for art mu
 seums\, including The Studio Museum in Harlem\, The Guggenheim Museum\, Sm
 ithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery\, the Philadelphia Museu
 m of Art\, among others. Her essays have appeared in American Studies Jour
 nal\, Aperture\, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of Ame
 rican Art\, The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies\, and WBUR Bosto
 n. She published “Thomas McKellar sous rature: John Singer Sargent’s Erasu
 re of a Black Model\,” for the recently opened exhibition\, Boston’s Apoll
 o: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent at the Isabella Stewart Gardner
  Museum (February 2020). She is currently organizing two exhibitions: the 
 first retrospective exhibition of the abstract painter Moe Brooker at the 
 Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia (2022) and an exhibition on contempora
 ry performance art by black female artists.\n\nGreene is the recipient of 
 numerous fellowships\, including the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wel
 lesley College\, the Woodrow Wilson Career Advancement Fellowship\, the Ri
 chard D. Cohen Fellowship in the W. E. B. DuBois Research Institute at the
  Hutchins Center for Research in African and African American Culture at H
 arvard University\, a Ucross Foundation Residency Writing Fellowship in Wy
 oming\, and a Summer Faculty Fellow at the Newhouse Center for the Humanit
 ies 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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