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Kareem Reid

Kareem Reid is a writer and artist. He lives in London, UK.

Opinion
How Black Obsidian Sound System Are Navigating the Ethics of Appropriation

Kareem Reid on how the group’s Turner Prize nomination conflicts with the B.O.S.S community-oriented aims

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Exhibition Reviews , UK Reviews
Kobby Adi Unearths Multiple Meanings in Salvaged Materials

At Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, the London-based artist’s installation re-appropriates industrial and mass-produced objects, unlocking their numerous connotations

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Reviews
R.I.P. Germain Positions Mourning as an Act of Activism

At Cubitt, London, the artist reenacts Caribbean rituals and pastimes to preserve the legacy of his loved ones

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Reviews , UK Reviews
Shenece Oretha, Mohammad Tayyeb and the Radical Potential of Listening

At London's Cell Project Space, the artists' timely new commissions explore the potency of intimate gestures and simple actions 

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Reviews
How Paul Maheke and Nkisi Provocatively Reprise the Phenomenon of ‘Negrophilia’

The artists’ latest performance at Block Universe leaves us hanging in ambiguity

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Opinion
The Enduring Relevance of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’

The film adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel imbricates joyful moments within a fraught political and racialized landscape

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