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Seph Rodney

Official Website of the Art Critic, Writer, & Museum Scholar

ABOUT

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Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former senior critic and opinion editor for Hyperallergic. He has written for the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and other publications. He is featured on the podcast The American Age. 

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His book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit, was published by Routledge in 2019. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize.

"So Che gets reduced to a poster, the renegade figure of Malcolm X to a choreographed arrangement, the struggles against AIDS to a song, and concerted, protracted protests to a hand signal for peace. This is what pop culture does. It's about giving us the whiff, the suggestion of something that has a very high price tag that someone else paid for."

The Myth of Beyonce and
Pop Cultural Liberation

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UPCOMING EVENTS

October 2022 (Upcoming)

VISION & SPIRIT

Seph Rodney will contribute the wall text for Bank of America's "Art in our Communities" exhibition, a selection of modern and contemporary works by Black artists from the bank’s collection hosted at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

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October 1st, 2022

BILL LOWE GALLERY

Seph Rodney will write a catalog essay for Todd Murphy's Wink series that looks at the history of African American jockeys.

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May 28th, 2022 - 4:00PM - 6:00PM

FAR AND WIDE:
Risk & Experimentation

 

The opening event is Saturday, May 28th at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.

 

Seph Rodney will give a talk on Saturday, June 11th, 2022.

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