{"id":3557,"date":"2022-07-15T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/15\/new-exhibition-explores-african-fantasy-and-race-through-art\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:34:28","slug":"new-exhibition-explores-african-fantasy-and-race-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"New exhibition explores African fantasy and race through art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In the Black Fantastic is a new exhibition at London&#8217;s Hayward Gallery which brings together artists from across the African diaspora whose works use elements of fantasy, science fiction, African myth and spirituality to explore race and alternative realities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Curated by Ekow Eshun, the exhibition features the works of British-Liberian visual artist Lina Iris Viktor and African-American artist Rashaad Newsome, whose work spans technology, sculpture and video, and celebrates black queer identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Produced, filmed and edited by Aaron Akinyemi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-62147761?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In the Black Fantastic is a new exhibition at London&#8217;s Hayward Gallery which brings together artists from across the African diaspora whose works use elements of fantasy, science fiction, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}