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2025 James Smalls’ Compelling Case To Restore Senegalese Artist Féral Benga’s Place In 20th-century Performing Arts Just Might Preserve His Grave Site As Well

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Art historian James Smalls, a professor of visual arts, researches the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexuality in both 19th-century art and the broader visual culture of the Black diaspora. Smalls is on a thrilling adventure to uncover the life and legacy of Senegalese performer known as Féral Benga and restore him to his rightful place in art history, and in a twist of timing fate, his research might also protect Benga’s final restin…
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umbc.edu broke the news in on Thursday, May 22, 2025.
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