# News [### Harvard GSAS Colloquy: The Power of Looking, Article and video interview with Cécile Fromont ](https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/power-looking) March 23, 2026 ![Cécile Fromont sitting on a bench in the Locke Gallery. She wears a purple blouse and black pants.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Screenshot%202026-03-26%20at%2012.36.00%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=ElGIeg0V) [### CBS News: "Boston celebrates 100th Black History Month by teaching new generations through workshops, art" ](https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-celebrates-100th-black-history-month-art-exhibit-harvard/) February 28, 2026 description [### The Culture Show: Interview with Dell Hamilton about "Renaissance, Race, and Representation" at the Alain Locke Gallery ](https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-culture-show/february-17-2026-on-frederick-wiseman-dell-hamilton-uli-lorimer-on-the-snowpack-and-matthew-shifrin) February 17, 2026 ![Thumbnail from the Culture Show, showing the hosts and title.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Screenshot%202026-02-23%20at%204.09.22%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=AIxpacY0) [### Bay State Banner: ‘Renaissance, Race and Representation’ at Harvard’s Locke Gallery ](https://baystatebanner.com/2026/02/04/renaissance-race-and-representation-at-harvards-locke-gallery/) February 04, 2026 ![Etching of an older woman with a wide straw hat and clothing pinned with a safety pin, she turns her head to look into the distance. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Sharecropper-%20Elizabeth%20Catlett%20.jpg?itok=Q5NnApOm) [### Boston Art Review: A Century of Afromodernism is on view at Harvard’s Newly Renamed Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art ](https://www.bostonartreview.com/read/renaissance-race-representation-alain-locke-gallery-melaine-ferdinand-king) November 26, 2025 ![Interior shot of the Locke Gallery with artworks lined up on the walls.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Screenshot%202026-02-23%20at%204.09.09%E2%80%AFPM_0.png?itok=iwnr_59r) [### Boston Globe, 'Photo shows at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery and BRIDGE Gallery meditate on the meaning of memory' ](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/arts/harvard-cooper-gallery-bridge-gallery-photo-shows/) March 13, 2025 The past is very much present ![Album of tintypes of unidentified sitters, late 19th century.Melissa Blackall](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/web.jpg?itok=H54Vs2HA) [### 12 Exhibits You Should See This Black History Month ](https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/02/18/12-exhibits-you-should-see-this-black-history-month) February 18, 2020 "The photography of Zanele Muholi stopped me in my tracks years back as I made my way through the MFA. This new exhibit of their work at the Cooper Gallery, curated by Renée Mussai, is a must see. Muholi is both the photographer and the subject. Beyond... ![nthozake](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-02-18_at_4.06.41_pm.png?itok=D4RjniIT) [### What makes it great?: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness ](https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/zanele-muholi-somnyama-ngonyama-hail-the-dark-lioness-at-cooper-gallery-cambridge-ma/) February 18, 2020 How can a single artist reproach centuries of ingrained injustice? How can they simultaneously offer hope for an equitable future? South African “visual activist” Zanele Muholi has mounted a stunning, often agonizing, deeply layered, and altogether... ![what makes it great somnyama ngonyama](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-03-30_at_11.38.14_am.png?itok=9bh31Tml) [### Harvard Gazette: 'The soul of a jazz man' ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/the-sound-of-my-soul-brings-frank-stewarts-photos-into-focus-at-cooper-gallery/) October 01, 2019 Frank Stewart learned young how to fail often with his camera. A painter could spend days on a canvas only to realize the result was a “monstrosity,” the acclaimed photographer and artist said during a conversation with New York University Professor of... ![Jazz](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/jazz-and-abstract-reality_2500.jpg?itok=5jrNgq4e) [### Boston Globe: 'Black history is for sale in Chicago. Whoever owns the culture, controls the narrative' ](https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/22/black-history-for-sale-chicago-whoever-owns-culture-controls-narrative/eLevaFaawdJDHx4Knb0FRL/story.html) August 05, 2019 "In terms of representation and volume, we have to work on both fronts," says Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University and board member of the Whitney Museum of Art. "The... ![Gordon Parks News](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/gp.jpg?itok=rXqDosWT) [### Bloomberg: 'Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz Snap Up Work From In-Demand Artist' ](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-26/alicia-keys-swizz-beatz-snap-up-work-from-sought-after-artist) July 26, 2019 Music power couple Alicia Keys and Kasseem Dean, known as Swizz Beatz, bought paintings by emerging artist Tschabalala Self, whose prices have risen along with her critical acclaim. ![Gordon Parks](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/gp6.jpg?itok=s_IzUVnQ) [### Hyperallergic: 'An Exhibition of Gordon Parks’s Photography Suggests New Roles for African-American Collectors' ](https://hyperallergic.com/505750/an-exhibition-of-gordon-parkss-photography-suggest-new-roles-for-african-american-collectors/) June 26, 2019 What does a Bronx-born hip hop producer and art collector have in common with one of the most iconic photojournalists of all time? Kasseem ‘Swizz Beatz’ Dean and Gordon Parks have both been gatekeepers of African-American narratives. 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