Locke Gallery LIT
Locke Gallery LIT, our exhibition-based book salon offers literary suggestions to enhance your experience of our exhibitions.
Readings related to the Spring 2025 exhibit, Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory
Wendel A. White: Manifest | Thirteen Colonies
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory
The Black Civil War Soldier, A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings
Open Letter from Boston Arts and Cultural Workers in Demand of Racial Equity and Social Transformation
Black Lives Matter At School Coloring Book
All Monuments Must Fall: A Syllabus
My ‘Aha’ Moment: Recognizing Racism in Art and Art Education
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design? Dismantling design history 101
Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon
Anti-Racist Education Through the Visual Arts: Lesson Plans for Early Childhood Educators
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Toward a Monumental Black Body
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Vision & Justice Civic Curriculum by APERTURE Magazine
Decolonizing Art History
In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
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.
Purple Hibiscus
Chike and the River
You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
Half of a Yellow Sun
Wole Soyinka
Myth and the African World
The Wrestling Match
Death and the King's Horseman
Death and the King's Horseman
At Her Majesty's Request
Art, Dialogue, and Outrage
Isara: A Voyage around "Essay"
In honor of #ADayWithoutAWoman on March 8th, we offered a list of reading on intersectionality and feminism.
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics By Bell Hooks
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, And Billie Holiday
Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex
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.
Harlem: Found Ways
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem By Brian D. Goldstein
The Harlem Charade
Glenn Ligon: Come Out.
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Dawoud Bey - Harlem, U.S.A
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century
Harlem: Lost and Found