1. Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth Mar 28–Jul 5, 2009 http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=8191 http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=8191 African American, African African Diaspora

2. Jacob Lawrence (US, 1917-2000) Migration of the Negro # 3 (left), #17 (right), #58 (below) 1941. Heritage of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920s & ‘30s

3. Romare Bearden (US, 1912 – 1988) in his New York library 1970s Romare Bearden in his Long Island City studio c. 1980 with a photograph of his paternal great-grandparents.

4. Bearden (second from right in hat) in Paris, 1950 Duke Ellington, 1943

5. (left) Harlem row houses 1943; (right) Romare Bearden, Black Manhattan, 1969, collage of paper and synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 25 x 21”

6. (right) Romare Bearden, Rocket to the Moon, 1971 Hannah Hoch, Dada Ernst, collage, 1920 George Grosz Gray Day, o/c, 1921. Dada/ Neue Sachlichkeit

7. Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape, 1938, oil on canvas, 86 3/4 x 172 7/8 in.

8. (left) Georges Braque, Still Life, Cubist collage (papier collé) and graphite, 1913 (right) Picasso, Three Musicians, o/c, Synthetic Cubism, 1921

9. "The more I played around with visual notions as if I were improvising like a jazz musician, the more I realized what I wanted to do as a painter, and how I wanted to do it." Bearden Three Folk Musicians, 1967 Jazz, 1974

10. "I think the artist has to be something like a whale, swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs. When he finds that, he can start to make limitations. And then he really begins to grow.” Romare Bearden

11. Paul Gauguin (French Post-Impressionist Painter, 1848-1903) Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892 compared with Bearden, Patchwork Quilt, c. 1972 Primitivism or Identity?

12. Robert Colescott (b. Oakland, California, 1925) Demoiselles D’Alabama, 1985 compare with Picasso, Demoiselles D’Avignon, 1907

13. Betye Saar (US, b. 1926), The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972

14. Faith Ringgold (US, b.1930), Aunt Bessie and Aunt Edith, fiber, 1974

15. Faith Ringgold, Whose Bad? 1988 (left) African-American story quilt, c. 1860

16. David Hammons (US, b. 1943) photo of artist in Zurich, 2002

17. David Hammons, Higher Goals, 1986, basketball hoops, telephone poles and decorative detritus such as bottle caps, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, NY. "Those who know, don't show" - David Hammons

18. David Hammons, Champ, 1989, rubber (inner tube) and mixed media

19. Hammons, How Do Ya Like Me Now? Washington DC, 1989

20. Hammons, How Do Ya Like Me Now? With sledgehammers and flag, Washington DC, 1989; literalization of a stereotype

21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WaB JrAxxgo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WaB JrAxxgo Tyree Guyton (US b. 1955) Heidelberg Project, Detroit. photo: August, 2007

22. Fred Wilson (US, 1954) 2003, artist ><curator “I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.” Fred Wilson In the archive, Museum of World Culture in Sweden

23. Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, 1992

24. Fred Wilson, Atlas, 1995

25. Fred Wilson, Museum Guards, 1997

26. Fred Wilson, Road to Victory, online project for MoMA NYC, 1999

27. Fred Wilson, Me and It, video installation, 1995

28. Fred Wilson, Pangaea, 1999, Townsend Harris High School 149th Street and Melbourne Avenue, Queens, (fence & gate)

30. Fred Wilson, American Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2003, black glass chandelier

31. Fred Wilson, from Speak of Me as I Am, Venice Biennale 2003 installation

38. Fred Wilson, Aftermath, 2003, installation for Berkeley Art Museum

39. Kara Walker (US b. 1969), No Mere Words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this Negress feels at having been Cast into such a lowly state by her former Masters and so it is with a Humble Heart that She Brings about Their Physical Ruin and Earthly Demise, 1999. Installation view at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California. Cut paper and adhesive on painted wall, 10 x 65 feet. SFMoMA collection

40. Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion, 2001, Installation view at Brent Sikkema, New York, Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 14 x 37 1/2 feet

41. “Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge” NYC Metropolitan MA installation, 2006. Artist as curator combined her own work with pieces of African American art from the museum’s collection.

43. Kerry James Marshall, Souvenir II, 1997, acrylic, paper, collage, and glitter on unstretched canvas, 108 x 120 inches

44. Kerry James Marshall, Souvenir IV, 1998, acrylic, collage, and glitter on unstretched canvas, 108 x 156 inches, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

45. Carrie Mae Weems (US b. 1953) publicity photo for film, Conjure Women (available in CSUS library)

46. Weems, Untitled from Kitchen Table Series, 1990, edition of 5

47. Weems, Untitled, from The Kitchen Table Series, 1990

48. Weems, Untitled, from Kitchen Table Series, 1990

49. Weems, Ritual and Revolution, digital photographs on fabric, installation, Berlin, 1999

50. Weems, Ritual and Revolution, Berlin, 1999

51. Weems, Ritual and Revolution, 1999

52. Weems, The Capitol Building, from The Jefferson Suite, 1999

53. Weems, Enactment of the Jefferson-Hemmings Affair, The Jefferson Suite, 1999 digitally printed photograph on muslin

54. Weems, Gibbon and Child at Play, The Jefferson Suite, 1999

55. Africa & African Diaspora Composite photograph – Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco http://www.moadsf.org/ Original photo by Chester Higgins, interactive collage by Robert Silvers and Runaway Technology, 2005http://www.moadsf.org/

56. Marlene Dumas, Couples 1994, oil on canvas, 39 x 118” Dumas, The Witness, 2002

57. Jane Alexander (South Africa, b. 1959) The African Adventure, 2002

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60. Sonia Boyce, From Tarzan to Rambo: English Born `Native' Considers her Relationship to the Constructed/Self Image and her Roots in Reconstruction 1987, photograph and mixed media on paper. 1240 x 3590 mm (c. 4 X 12 ft) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/ram/2007_31_mon_02.ram http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/ram/2007_31_mon_02.ram

61. Yinka Shonibare (England, b. 1962 to Nigerian parents, raised in Lagos) Dressing Down, wax printed cotton textile, crinoline display stand, 1997 “Afro-Victorian” headless mannequins dressed in Dutch wax prints: hybrid colonial fabric. Example of trans-textuality of contemporary global artists

62. Yinka Shonibare, Diary of a Victorian Gentleman, 14 Hours, photographic series, 1998 (right) Poster in London Underground, 1998

63. Yinka Shonibare, Diary of a Victorian Gentleman, 21 Hours, photographic series, 1998 compare (right) William Hogarth (English, 1697 - 1764) ) Marriage-A-La-Mode: The Toilette, 1735

64. Steve McQueen (England, b. 1969, lives in Amsterdam), 2 stills from video, Western Deep, 2002, Documenta 11. Taken in the deepest gold mine in the world, the Tautona mines near Johannesburg in South Africa.

65. El Anatsui (Ghana, b. 1944), Sasa, 2003, Aluminum (bottle caps and commercial metal detritus), copper wire, 640 x 840 cm Africa ReMix exhibition Beaubourg, Paris 2005 Detail showing bottle caps etc.

66. Hover, 2002Flag for a New World, 2004 Ghanaian Kente cloth – a source http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/gawu/artworks.html

67. El Anatsui, Sasa http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/02/22/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=0&pageNam e=22nigeria& http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/02/22/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=0&pageNam e=22nigeria&

69. El Anatsui, Versatility, 2006 Venice Biennale

71. Chris Ofili (UK, 1968) The Virgin Mary, paper collage, oil, glitter, polyester resin, elephant dung, on linen, 1999 Sensation show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art 1999-2000: controversy over exhibition of the Charles Saatchi collection of Young British Artists (YBAs). Museum complicity with private gallerist / collector and “sensational” artworks. NYC Mayor Giuliani: “[There is] nothing in the First Amendment that supports horrible and disgusting projects."