“Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” is a feature length, documentary and multimedia outreach project that explores how African American communities have used the […]
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Martin Luther King: A Dream Fulfilled
A Dream Fulfilled, Martin Luther King Memorial Opens Now we know: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it leads to a picturesque glade beside the Tidal Basin, […]
Exhibit at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art
Photographic Portraits of People Opens at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art An exhibition featuring more than 100 original photographic portraits of people of color opened yesterday at the Nasher […]
SNEAK PREVIEW: Through A Lens Darkly
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a two-hour film that will explore the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, […]
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 […]
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 […]