Two Centuries of Black American Art: A 35th Anniversary Roundtable at LACMA
Two Centuries of Black American Art: A 35th Anniversary Roundtable
Saturday, May 14 | 2:00 pm
In 1976, LACMA presented an exhibition, Two Centuries of Black American Art, one of the first museum exhibitions recognizing the importance of African-American artists and their significant contributions to artistic practice over the previous two centuries. David Driskell, professor emeritus, University [...]
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Current Research in American Art symposium
Just a reminder…please save the date for the “Current Research in American Art” symposium at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, Oct. 8-9, 2010. There will be 31 exciting papers in 8, non-concurrent sessions: Visual Culture, Colonial/17th-18th c., 19th c., 20th c. to 1970, Sculpture, Ethnicity/Race, Photography and Other Multiples, Folk/Outsider/Self-taught Art.
Michael Harris, Assoc. Prof. at [...]
Save the Date Driskell Center Fall Symposium
“Performing Race in African American Visual Culture”
Wednesday, September 15, and Thursday, September 16, 2010
Featuring a keynote address by Dr. Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University
Lecture will be held at the Phillips Collection, Washington DC,
Wednesday, September 15
Followed by the second day of the symposium at the Adele H. Stamp [...]
“Is Photography Over?”
Notes on the recent symposium at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are available online. It’s always disappointing with broad discussions like this that there are no African-American curators, writers, or photographers represented (granted, I do not know who George Baker is), though hardly surprising, especially in San Francisco. The exclusion can’t help but [...]
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- Taking a Break February 4, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]