She can see joy and sweat and that liberated feeling of getting out of one's head and onto the dancefloor. Wandergirl (a.k.a. Hilton Head native Amber Glover) can also see the cliques that form in the ...

PARIS — Tunisian-born director Abdellatif Kechiche, who broke through with the Cesar-winning “The Secret of the Grain,” will direct historical biopic “Black Venus.” Kechiche’s film turns on a ...

Paris, 1817: inside the Royal Academy of Medicine. “I have never seen a human head more similar to that of an ape’s.” Standing in front of a cast made of Saartjie Baartman’s body, anatomist Georges ...

'Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices' critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the ...