Talk by artist Mario Moore to celebrate the installation of his painting The Great Reckoning, now on view in the atrium of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The work depicts Moore’s ancestor, a Black Union Army soldier who fought in the Civil War, and invites us to consider the contested histories that […]
Photographer Dawoud Bey will discuss his artistic practice, including The Birmingham Project (2012), a series of poignant portraits that responds to the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Join us in person or over Zoom to hear Bey—whose works feature in Time’s Relentless Melt—in conversation with Curator Katherine A. Bussard. Details here. Reception to follow […]
Rex Goreleigh, Spring Pruning, 1966. Courtesy of Malcolm Peyton and Barbara Winchester A 2019 Williams College survey of the collections of 18 major US museums found that, of a selection from works by 9,000 named artists, just 1.2% of works were made by Black artists. A panel of museum curators and directors will consider how […]