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Antagonistic Cooperation: Romare Bearden’s New Paris Blues
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is proud to host Robert O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and founder of the Center for Jazz Studies. Professor O’Meally, the author of Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, will explore Bearden’s New Paris Blues, an unfinished series of books that spans media, cities,…
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Conversation on Harlem Renaissance and Fashion Rescheduled
This event has gone virtual and will be held on Zoom on 06/16. You must register to attend.
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03/24 Convo on Harlem Renaissance Fashion Postponed
This event has been postponed in response to public health concerns but we hope to reschedule for a later date. Check back for updated information.
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Upcoming convo on fashion and the Harlem Renaissance
I will be having a conversation with Liz Way from the Museum at FIT about the Harlem Renaissance and fashion. Join us on March 24th at the Harlem School of the Arts! Harlem during the Jazz Age was renown for the style of its denizens. The twenties was a time of radical transformation for clothing,…
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Harlem on my mind (forthcoming essay on Dawoud Bey’s photos of Harlem)
“Harlem: Found Ways” is a new exhibition opening today at The Cooper Gallery at Harvard University that “presents artistic visions and engagements specific to Harlem, New York City, in the last decades.” Check it out if you are in Cambridge this summer! And, look for an essay by yours truly in the exhibition catalogue reflecting on Dawoud…
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I love archives: The amazing Katherine Dunham
Eighty years ago this month, an anthropologist named Katherine Dunham made her New York City dance debut at the 92nd Street Y. The 28 year old Chicago native choreographed and performed with her own company of dancers as part of “A Negro Dance Evening” organized by fellow dancers Edna Guy and Allison Burroughs. Born in […]…
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New exhibition of photos of 1957 civil rights march by Lee Friedlander
Check out this exhibition Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Yale University Art Gallery curated by my former student, La Tanya Autry. The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, a virtually forgotten civil rights gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on May 17, 1957, was photographed by Lee Friendlander. This…
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James Barnor, photographer
Having spent several summers in Accra, I was delighted to learn about the incredible photographer, James Barnor, who operated the Ever Young studio in Jamestown. Autograph mounted an exhibition of his work: http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/james-barnor-ever-young and an accompanying monograph has been published of his work. He has visited the US for the first time and spoke at…
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Celestial Sphere, Color Movies, Gardens on Parade!
Originally posted on MCNY Blog: New York Stories: Promotional ephemera from the Collection on the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. Museum of the City of New York, X2013.156.6. Help the Museum digitize its 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair Collection! The Museum’s New York World’s Fair collections continue to be a major resource for researchers all…
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F. Holland Day, Imperial Masculinity, and the Intimacy of Photography
Originally posted on The Photographic Situation: Shawn Michelle Smith reflects on F. Holland Day’s exotic look and intimate looking In the spring of 1901, F. Holland Day arrived unannounced at Frederick Evans’s studio in London, wearing a burnoose. Evans invited him in to be photographed, and the two collaborated in making a series of intimate portraits…
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