Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

Originally a blog detailing the ramblings of an Open University [2008] art undergraduate in search of a subject for and execution of 4,500 word essay, now with occasional additions as other Blacks are discovered.
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Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Preparing for AFRICA: SPEED SEARCH SOUND

From MOMA collection - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) While preparing for my talk I found that MOMA has ...

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Speaking at the V&A

I have been invited to speak at Victoria and Albert Museum's AFRICA:SPEED,SEARCH, SOUND Feb 1st. I have chosen to talk about Walke...

Friday, 7 December 2012

My 2012 Christmas Card Contest

It's that time of year again, when I ideally like to choose a Black Magus image for my Christmas card. In the past I've used varian...

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Spoke at the British Library

I spoke last Friday Oct 19th at the British Library as part of their Readers Research program the evening’s topic was chosen to coinci...

Friday, 21 September 2012

Great Malvern's retouched Black Magus

The image of the Black Magus in Great Malvern Priory was first described to me rather grandly as ‘the first possible representation ...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Ludlow's St Laurence's Gift Shop and its Black Magus

Once a year for the past few years I’ve been on a walking weekend, around this time , with five friends of a certain age who share the vag...

Saturday, 19 November 2011

St Maurice Black or White?

Had an excellent day at the Victoria and Albert museum Spotlight on the Diaspora gave my St Maurice presentation twice. Met ...

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