{"id":2,"date":"2026-01-09T02:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:35:05","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background has-background\" style=\"background-color:#8e8985\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"1-black-portraitures-shifting-paradigms\">Black Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles<br>The black built environment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"2-venice-2024\">Los Angeles, California  |  September 28-30, 2026<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-fa2e647a wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/08\/BP2026-Image.jpg\" alt=\"IMAGE: BETYE SAAR, GRIS GRIS GUARDIAN, 1990-93.\n\u00a9BETYESAAR, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND ROBERTS PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES.\" class=\"uag-image-582\" width=\"560\" height=\"855\" title=\"BP2026 Image\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Black Portraiture[s] will be offering a hybrid option for those who cannot attend in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Black Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment<\/strong> will examine the historicity and rich panoply encompassing the Black built environment, both physical and imagined. Exploring the concept and its relationship to photography, architecture, urban planning, and visual culture, artists have reconceived and reconstructed visions of our built environment while exploring themes conversant with the spiritual and ritualistic continuities of the African diaspora. Moreover, this convening will explore the artistic contributions to forms of memory, visual legacies of Black townships, and the charges of conceived spaces therein. The conference will present and encourage research and scholarship on continuities between modern and contemporary visual and structural approaches, centering the audacity of Black-built environments from within the Diaspora\u2019s politics, architecture, art, film, music, migrations, and global iterations.<br><br><br>Co-Hosted by New York University, Getty, and UCLA<br><br><br><br><br>IMAGE: BETYE SAAR, <em>GRIS GRIS GUARDIAN<\/em>, 1990-93.<br>\u00a9BETYESAAR, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND ROBERTS PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"pm-lead-text\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Portraiture[s] will be offering a hybrid option for those who cannot attend in person. Black Portraiture[s]: Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment will examine the historicity and rich panoply encompassing the Black built environment, both physical and imagined. 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