Today’s discussion concerns Eunsong Kim’s The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property. #ThePoliticsofCollecting

Kim’s emphasis on property and the arts makes for a fascinating study. It places the emphasis on museum culture and literary production in ways that highligjt the violence of white supremacy in the archive. #ThePoliticsofCollecting

#ThePoliticsofCollecting moves masterfully among and between distinct discursive arenas of representation. The breadth. The depth. So inspiring.

We have decided the subtitle is Everybody Gets Got. #ThePoliticsofCollecting

#ThePoliticsofCollecting explores everything that undergirds the systems of exploitation that we still have with us.

Property, restitution, acknowledgement, redress—all are placed at the fraught intersection of whiteness and property (or “whiteness as property”). And we are still here. #ThePoliticsofCollecting

All built on the idea of “a possible good” that comes from the repetition of theft and a refusal of recognition. #ThePoliticsofCollecting

Marcel Duchamp?We now know so much about the way art comes into public spaces via the machinations of others. #ThePoliticsofCollecting

We are meeting today to discuss Nikki A. Greene’s Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art. #GrimeGlitterGlass

We should begin by discussing the cover image, no? #GrimeGlitterGlass

And the title! #GrimeGlitterGlass

The feeling of moving through the art is fluid and capacious. #GrimeGlitterGlass

The cover image (Pullman) by Radcliffe Bailey offers us a way to get into the *heart* of Greene’s way of writing and thinking. #GrimeGlitterGlass

How does one negotiate the work of art history while also working with living artists who are deeply engaged in the practice of sustaining a legacy? #GrimeGlitterGlass

The beauty of the book is in its form, in its artistry. It’s a way of thinking with and through the aesthetics of place and the corporeal. #GrimeGlitterGlass

The visual culture of black music. #GrimeGlitterGlass

#GrimeGlitterGlass wrestles with the task of representative blackness in the art world.

We are wondering which other artists Greene was thinking about examining in the book. #GrimeGlitterGlass

Question time! #GrimeGlitterGlass