Precious Adesina

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Articles

David Oyelowo

2 weeks ago | port-magazine.com | Precious Adesina

From his breakout performance as Martin Luther King Jr in Selma to playing Henry VI at the Royal Shakespeare Company, David Oyelowo has consistently sought roles that challenge both himself and the narratives that surround Black actors. In Government Cheese he takes a turn into surrealist comedy, playing a man caught between redemption and survival.
Emily Kam Kngwarray’s First European Retrospective to Open This Summer

2 months ago | artnews.com | Precious Adesina

In a photograph from 1994, the Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray sits cross-legged on the ground wearing a purple sweater and a black beanie. Though the canvas stretching out before her is enormous, she is absorbed in a small section, carefully dabbing at the material with a long brush dipped in yellow paint. Kngwarray’s deep concentration in this image embodies the care she poured into all her work.
Noah Davis: An Innovative Painter Who Also Reimagined Art’s Role in Community

Feb 10, 2025 | artnews.com | Precious Adesina

In Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, nearly black night sky. With the figure facing away from the viewer, dressed in a worn red shirt and denim trousers and holding a lantern that offers little illumination, the artwork is solemn. Davis created it in the year his father, Keven, died from a brain tumor.
different queer generations find common ground in nature drama

Feb 4, 2025 | msn.com | Precious Adesina

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different queer generations find common ground in nature drama

Feb 4, 2025 | msn.com | Precious Adesina

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‘It’s a radical act to garden’: different queer generations find common ground in nature drama

Feb 4, 2025 | theguardian.com | Precious Adesina

Gardening can be radical, whether a gardener realises it or not. In 2010, fashion designer Ron Finley turned neglected areas in his South Central neighbourhood of Los Angeles into vegetable patches. He was ordered to remove them for gardening without a permit but, with a group of activists, fought back and changed the city’s laws. Derek Jarman’s home in Kent, where he lived in his final years and grew plants in an inhospitable garden, has become a pilgrimage site.
Visionary Curator Ekow Eshun on a Landmark Year of Showcasing Black Creativity

Jan 1, 2025 | news.artnet.com | Precious Adesina

British curator, writer and broadcaster Ekow Eshun has been at the forefront of international culture for several decades. But more recently, he has become something of a household name, having worked on some of the most talked-about exhibitions over the past few years.
Hans Ulrich Obrist on A.I., Video Games, and Rethinking the Art World in 2025

Dec 23, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Precious Adesina

In 2016, the Swiss art critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was dubbed the most influential person in the art world for the second time in the ArtReview’s annual Power 100 list. Widely known as the “curator who never sleeps”, his mark on global arts and culture is indelible. Most notably, Obrist has been the artistic director of London’s Serpentine Galleries for almost two decades, championing innovative art projects and providing a platform for established and emerging artists alike.
‘One thing goes wrong and that’s it’: how Janet Jackson’s career was wrecked in a split second

Nov 4, 2024 | theguardian.com | Precious Adesina

It has been just over two decades since Justin Timberlake ripped off a piece of Janet Jackson’s bustier at the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show – an incident that saw her right breast briefly exposed to 70,000 in-person spectators and more than 140 million TV viewers in what became known as “Nipplegate”.
Claudette Johnson’s New Mural Recasts Picasso’s Famed ‘Demoiselles’ With Powerful Black Women

Oct 30, 2024 | news.artnet.com | Precious Adesina

Over the next twelve months, as commuters walk down the steps of Brixton station in south London, they will find a triptych by British artist Claudette Johnson. In Three Women Johnson portrays a trio of female figures in distinctly different styles. The sitter on the left is depicted almost entirely in blue and brown tones; the middle is more “monochrome” and sketch-like; whereas to the right the figure is more “representational,” she explained on a video call.