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Harlem: Found Ways
Published 2019 The art and artists of Harlem: Found Ways represent the place and its people, burnishing Harlem’s luster but never attempting to smooth its rough edges. The works in the exhibition span a variety of media to explore the invention of Harlem...
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory
Readings related to the Spring 2025 exhibit, Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory Book List
ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings
By Awam Amkpa (ed.) Published and distributed by Postcart Featuring contributions from Deborah Willis and Henry Louis Gates Jr. as well as work by Omar Victor Diop and Carrie Mae Weems, the accompanying catalog for ReSignifications (another travelling...
The Black Civil War Soldier, A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
By Deborah Willis Published and distributed by NYU Press Deborah Willis is one of the curators of “Free as they want to be” with video and archival prints from her series Meditations on Joan Baez’s Civil War featuring in the exhibition. This book explores...
Wendel A. White: Manifest | Thirteen Colonies
Published by Peabody Museum Press, distributed by Radius Books Works from Manifest: Thirteen Colonies are featured in “Free as they want to be”. This book explores the entire photo series.
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory
Official catalog for the travelling collection, edited with text by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis Published and distributed by Damiani Books
Boston Globe, 'Photo shows at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery and BRIDGE Gallery meditate on the meaning of memory'
The past is very much present
Cécile Fromont Appointed as new HAA Professor and as First Faculty Director of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center
The Department of History of Art and Architecture is delighted to announce the appointment of Cécile Fromont as a professor in our department. Born in Martinique, and with degrees from Science-Po and Harvard, Fromont has published field-changing books on...
Bay State Banner, 'A deep dive into the archives of Ice T and Afrika Islam at Harvard'
Concerts throughout the city have been honoring the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a genre born, according to the prevailing narrative, at a Bronx house party in 1973. Harvard University’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art marks...
7 News Boston, 'New exhibit at Harvard celebrates Ice-T, 50 years of hip-hop'
A new hip-hop exhibit at Harvard offers a closer look at what inspired rap icon Ice-T and his producer and celebrates 50 years of hip-hop.
Boston Globe, ''80s hip-hop culture, courtesy of Ice-T and DJ Afrika Islam, is on vivid display at Harvard'
“Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture,” a new exhibition at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, charts the formative phases of hip-hop through the experience of two of its early practitioners: the rapper Ice-T and his...
