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Nikki A. Greene

@drnikkigreene.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof of Art History @ Wellesley drnikkigreene.com ✨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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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.

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.

02.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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.

15.01.2025 14:10 — 👍 11851    🔁 3103    💬 299    📌 234
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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.

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.

14.01.2025 22:44 — 👍 26    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 2

In good company @dukepress.bsky.social authors! 🤍💙🩵

22.12.2024 04:23 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.”

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...

26.11.2024 14:18 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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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.”

Happy to see two great @dukepress.bsky.social books on this superb end-of-year best of list from @hyperallergic.com ! Congrats to @eunsong.bsky.social and @drnikkigreene.bsky.social !! hyperallergic.com/968703/the-3...

26.11.2024 14:28 — 👍 49    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2

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!!!

27.11.2024 16:35 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for sharing! ✨🙏🏾✨

08.12.2024 11:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‎Vibe Check: Your Fate Has Been Decided on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Vibe Check, Ep Your Fate Has Been Decided - May 28, 2024

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. ✨😼✨

30.05.2024 14:53 — 👍 46    🔁 3    💬 9    📌 5