Paris Noir 1950 – 2000 Black Paris – Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000

Ruth HartleyArt by Ruth Hartley2 Comments

Black Paris – Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000 I had to see the Paris Noir exhibition. Art and anti-colonialism have always been part of my life, most of which I spent in southern Africa before 1996. I was born in Zimbabwe and studied art in South Africa, but the most significant years of my artistic life were spent working […]

Lines in the sand erased in the sea of history

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‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’ There was a regular history exam question at my school that asked students to debate whether ‘the hour made the man or the man made the hour’. It usually related to a period of history that we had just finished studying. For example – did Britain’s survival in WW2 depend solely on Winston Churchill’s […]