{"id":642,"date":"2016-03-22T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=642"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:17:46","slug":"ousmane-snow-the-first-black-man-to-enter-the-french-academy-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/ousmane-snow-the-first-black-man-to-enter-the-french-academy-of-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Snow, the first black man to enter the French Academy of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Ousmane-Sow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1434\" src=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BsttF_visuel_Ousmane-Sow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1691\" height=\"1691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BsttF_visuel_Ousmane-Sow.jpg 1691w, https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BsttF_visuel_Ousmane-Sow-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BsttF_visuel_Ousmane-Sow-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BsttF_visuel_Ousmane-Sow-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/BsttF_visuel_Ousmane-Sow-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1691px) 100vw, 1691px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">For more infos or details :<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/afrique\/20131210-ousmane-sow-academie-beaux-art-n-est-pas-rien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An interview of Ousmane Sow for RFI (in French)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv5monde.com\/cms\/chaine-francophone\/Revoir-nos-emissions\/L-invite\/Episodes\/p-27031-Ousmane-Sow.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The portrait of Ousmane Sow on TV5 Monde <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/afrique\/20131210-ousmane-sow-academie-beaux-art-n-est-pas-rien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(in French)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ethiopiques.refer.sn\/spip.php?page=imprimer-article&amp;id_article=1264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read &#8220;Ousmane Sow ou la r\u00e9conciliation&#8221; by Alain Damiani on Ethiopiques, the n\u00e9gro-african journal of litt\u00e9rature and philosophiy (in French)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/fr\/20131212-ousmane-sow-noir-academie-beaux-arts-sculpture-senegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The portrait of Ousmane Sow on France 24 at the time of his entrance to the Academy<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Artwork :<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">M.Y. pour B(s)ttF<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy nomination is even more valuable to me that you always had the wisdom not to establish racial, ethnical or religious quotas to be admitted among you\u201d. Unanimously elected in 2013, the eighty-years-old Senegalese sculptor follows L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor\u2019s footsteps, elected at the French Academy thirty years earlier, and to whom he paid tribute during his enthronement. This event will surely and durably shake-up the African Diaspora: after the constant search for role models, the awareness of a possible future. Oneself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37,34],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syncretics","tag-black-swag-empowerment","tag-black-future-art","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}