Damien Davis – Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/author/damien-davis/ Sensitive to Art & its Discontents Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/cropped-Hyperallergic-favicon-100x100.png Damien Davis – Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/author/damien-davis/ 32 32 118955609 Rashaad Newsome’s Futurist Manifesto of Black Joy https://hyperallergic.com/1028148/rashaad-newsome-assembly-futurist-manifesto-of-black-joy/ https://hyperallergic.com/1028148/rashaad-newsome-assembly-futurist-manifesto-of-black-joy/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:08:45 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=1028148 His film Assembly is more than just documentation of a performance. It’s a kind of communion. ]]>

His film Assembly is more than just documentation of a performance. It’s a kind of communion.

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Juneteenth Is the Story of a Freedom Withheld https://hyperallergic.com/1021609/juneteenth-is-the-story-of-a-freedom-withheld/ https://hyperallergic.com/1021609/juneteenth-is-the-story-of-a-freedom-withheld/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:43:41 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=1021609 In the art world, as in America at large, spectacle is welcomed more readily than structural change.]]>

In the art world, as in America at large, spectacle is welcomed more readily than structural change.

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We’re Not Your Pride Publicity Stunt  https://hyperallergic.com/1017623/were-not-your-pride-publicity-stunt/ https://hyperallergic.com/1017623/were-not-your-pride-publicity-stunt/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:48:32 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=1017623 For many Black queer artists, Pride Month doesn't feel like a celebration. It feels like extraction.]]>

For many Black queer artists, Pride Month doesn't feel like a celebration. It feels like extraction.

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Let It Burn https://hyperallergic.com/1014449/let-it-burn-nottoway-plantation/ https://hyperallergic.com/1014449/let-it-burn-nottoway-plantation/#comments Wed, 21 May 2025 20:33:01 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=1014449 For Black people, watching the Nottoway plantation go up in flames felt like witnessing a lie collapse under the weight of truth.]]>

For Black people, watching the Nottoway plantation go up in flames felt like witnessing a lie collapse under the weight of truth.

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Manufacturing “Black Fatigue” in the Art World https://hyperallergic.com/1012522/manufacturing-black-fatigue-in-the-art-world/ https://hyperallergic.com/1012522/manufacturing-black-fatigue-in-the-art-world/#comments Tue, 13 May 2025 21:35:01 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=1012522 Behind the declining demand for Black portraiture, and the backlash against Thomas J Price’s Times Square sculpture, lurks a strategic campaign of erasure.]]>

Behind the declining demand for Black portraiture, and the backlash against Thomas J Price’s Times Square sculpture, lurks a strategic campaign of erasure.

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Who’s Afraid of Successful Black Artists? https://hyperallergic.com/1010709/whos-afraid-of-successful-black-artists/ https://hyperallergic.com/1010709/whos-afraid-of-successful-black-artists/#comments Wed, 07 May 2025 20:14:42 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=1010709 This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.]]>

This spring, New York's museums feature four Black artists in major solo exhibitions. Some in the media are not happy about it.

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Returning the Gaze of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits https://hyperallergic.com/983117/returning-the-gaze-of-ancient-egyptian-funerary-portraits/ https://hyperallergic.com/983117/returning-the-gaze-of-ancient-egyptian-funerary-portraits/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:38:26 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=983117 As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.]]>

As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.

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Ron Norsworthy’s Revolution of Queer Black Male Self-Love https://hyperallergic.com/967260/ron-norsworthy-revolution-of-queer-black-male-self-love/ https://hyperallergic.com/967260/ron-norsworthy-revolution-of-queer-black-male-self-love/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:42:11 +0000 https://hyperallergic.com/?p=967260 Norsworthy and I sat down to discuss his recent works, which wield the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus to examine the power of beauty, who defines it, and how we can reclaim it.]]>

Norsworthy and I sat down to discuss his recent works, which wield the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus to examine the power of beauty, who defines it, and how we can reclaim it.

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