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Nikki A. Greene
@drnikkigreene.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Art History @ Wellesley
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✨Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body & the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke UP, 2024) ✨
https://www.dukeupress.edu/grime-glitter-and-glass
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A new exhibition at the Ford Foundation Gallery demonstrates how Black women’s ceramics become memorials to land and body, inheritance and loss, embodying continuity and carrying histories across generations.
How Black Women Ceramicists Shaped Art History
“Body Vessel Clay” at the Ford Foundation Gallery spans three generations of artists who embody continuity, molding the past and present.
hyperallergic.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.
First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.
www.npr.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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As the fires in Los Angeles continue to rage, the rest of the United States looks on in horror at imagery that ironically — or appropriately — appears as if it came from a Hollywood movie.
How Los Angeles Created the Vocabulary of Its Destruction
The burning of large areas in the city suggests the dusk of America as a dream manufacturer, and the beginnings of a darker story.
hyperallergic.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
In good company @dukepress.bsky.social authors! 🤍💙🩵
December 22, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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Great to see "Grime, Glitter, and Glass" by @drnikkigreene.bsky.social and "The Politics of Collecting" by @eunsong.bsky.social on @hyperallergic.com's Best of 2024 list!
hyperallergic.com/968703/the-3...
The 30 Best Art Books of 2024
This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s “Suffrage Song.”
hyperallergic.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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Great review of @drnikkigreene.bsky.social 's new @dukepress.bsky.social book in @hyperallergic.com , which named it one of the art books of the year!!!
How often do you think of music when viewing a visual artwork — a painting, photograph, or collage mounted and framed? In her new book, Nikki A. Greene puts the visual into conversation with the aural and the tactile.
Serenading Entwined Lineages of Black Art and Music
Organized around the five components of a song, Nikki A. Greene dissects a lineage of sonic resonance and visual aesthetics in “Grime, Glitter, and Glass.”
hyperallergic.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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This week on VIBE CHECK, a listener asks if it’s okay to be petty after being ghosted by an ex. My petty advice actually scared Sam and has kicked off a whole conversation about revenge on our Patreon. ✨😼✨
‎Vibe Check: Your Fate Has Been Decided on Apple Podcasts
‎Show Vibe Check, Ep Your Fate Has Been Decided - May 28, 2024
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May 30, 2024 at 2:53 PM