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Antwaun Sargent
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Sep 15, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
“There’s a real potential in art making to have someone reassess everything that they had thought about a history.”
Curator, critic and writer, Antwaun Sargent engages Helga in a discussion around the motivations behind his work as a curator and the circuitous path that led him to a life in and around art.
Antwaun Sargent is writer, editor and curator living in New York City. Sargent is the author of “The New BlackVanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion” (Aperture) and the editor of “Young, Gifted andBlack: A New Generation of Artists” (DAP). Recently, he was hired as a director at Gagosian Gallery.
The Coda includes a reading from "Notes On Social Works" by Antwaun Sargent.”
Released:
Sep 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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