“Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness” will screen at the 2011 Film Festival on Friday, July 22 – 5:00 pm | Cinema Village 2. Since 1988, NewFest […]
Lyle Ashton Harris Opening at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Lyle Ashton Harris: Self/Portrait brings together a group of large-format Polaroid photographs of the artist’s friends, family and community; artists, art collectors and patrons; and the artist himself. Shot over […]
“For All the World To See” Featured in Washington Post
“For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” was organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, […]
Lorna Simpson Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents works that explore this Brooklyn-born artist’s interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity and history. Through works that incorporate hundreds of original and found […]
Ekua Holmes in Boston
Dred Scott: Picturing a Nineteenth Century Icon
This article addresses the visual image of Dred Scott in the public imagination particularly through the photographic portrait of Scott made in 1857. Limited by the not yet developed technology […]
Norman Baynard Collection featured in “New York Times”
African-American families have been descending on the San Diego History Center for the last few months, leafing through mid-20th-century photographs of their ancestors and relatives. The History Center owns about […]
KAMOINGE featured in “New York Times”
On an April Sunday in an artfully cluttered Harlem apartment, a group of photographers leaned over a coffee table, jazz playing softly in the background. Radcliffe Roye was about to […]
Dominique Smith: “My Mother is very organized”
Dominique Smith was one of our volunteers at our second DDFR Roadshow at theSilverDocs Film Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland. We were impressed by her enthusiasm for the project during […]
GLENN LIGON Every Picture Tells a Story… Especially the Back Story
The first major mid-career retrospective of works by New York-based artist Glenn Ligon recently opened at the Whitney Museum in NYC. In this 2008 interview with Thomas Allen Harris, for […]