• Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino is suturing the past to the present

    Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino is suturing the past to the present
    Centering Black feminism and anti-racism, Paulino’s work is being celebrated from New York’s High Line to the Tate ModernIn 1865, the French photographer Augusto Stahl made images of a naked Black woman in Rio de Janeiro. They show the unidentified woman – Stahl didn’t bother to record her name – facing the camera, in profile, and from behind, in a sequence that inevitably recalls police mugshots.Stahl was working for the Swiss-American biologist Louis Agassiz, a pr

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