Black Arts Movement - Exhibitions and Conferences

Exhibitions and Conferences

An international exhibition, "Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary", was held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2005.

A 2006 major conference "Should Black Art Still Be Beautiful?", organized by OOM Gallery and Midwest, examined the development of contemporary Black cultural practice and its future in Britain. On April 1, 2006, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, held a conference in honour of the late Donald Rodney. Photo of Donald Rodney located at OOM Gallery Archive.

A recently redeveloped African and Asian Visual Arts Archive is currently located at University of East London (UEL).

The Arts Council of England's (ACE) Decibel initiative produced a summary in 2003 in association with the Guardian newspaper.

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