Rashaad Newsome

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Object Label

KNOT combines many of the touchstones of Rashaad Newsome’s multidisciplinary practice: spinning decorative jewelry, lavish Gothic architecture, Black ballroom dancing, mathematical knot theories, and a frenetic energy that emerges from the extraordinary dancers and vocalists, as well as the artist’s surrealistic digital collaging techniques. Commissioned for the Brooklyn Museum’s 2014–15 exhibition Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, the video heralds the legacy and longevity of Vogue Fem dance’s Black, Latinx, queer, and trans originators and innovators.

Caption

Rashaad Newsome American, born 1979. Knot, 2014. Video installation: video, color and sound. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist and De Buck Gallery, 2018.49. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2018.49_view01_SC.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Knot

Date

2014

Medium

Video installation: video, color and sound

Classification

Media Art

Credit Line

Gift of the artist and De Buck Gallery

Accession Number

2018.49

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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