#  LIT 

 



Introducing Cooper Gallery LIT, our exhibition-based book salon - offering literary suggestions to enhance your experience of our exhibitions. The salon will include online discussions and in-gallery meetups.  
Join the conversation here.

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**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](/lit-listing#widget-10)

   !['anti racism in the arts', black text on white background](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/antiracism_in_the_arts_.jpg?itok=DEBWYaGs) 

 

**Anti-Racism Resources in the Arts**

#### [Book List](/lit-listing#widget-9)

   ![You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/you_must_set_forth_at_dawn-_a_memoir.jpg?itok=L_IcBP8-) 

 

**WOLE SOYINKA: Antiquities Across Times and Place**

Internationally acclaimed dramatist, social critic, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is an avid collector of African artworks including those from his home country, Nigeria. His writings help to inform his collection and works by contemporary artists.

#### [Book List](/lit-listing#widget-3)

   ![#ADayWithoutAWoman](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/closed41.png?itok=vOFUG7Ql) 

 

**A Day Without Women**

In honor of #ADayWithoutAWoman on March 8th, we offered a list of reading on intersectionality and feminism.

#### [Book List](/lit-listing#adaywithoutawoman)

   ![Harlem Image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/coopergallery/files/harlemfw.jpg?itok=WC6X6ZeY) 

 

**Harlem: Found Ways**

With the exhibition Harlem: Found Ways, the Cooper Gallery presents artistic visions and engagements specific to Harlem, New York City, in the last decades. Each artwork employs a distinct set of inquiries and innovative strategies to explore the Harlem community’s visual heritage as it grapples with the challenges of gentrification.

#### [Book List](/lit-listing#widget-8)