Category: Arts
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Mickalene Thomas’ Femmes Noires highlights Black femininity and inequality in the modern era
By Will Lofsky Mickalene Thomas, an African American artist from Brooklyn, N.Y., has outdone herself with her first major solo exhibition in Canada, Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). While managing to address the complexity of African femininity, Thomas highlights powerful black celebrities and the struggle for representation and inequality…