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Harvard Gazette: '‘Nine Moments for Now’ offers timely inspiration'
In a time when talk of losing — losing lives, losing political battles, losing rights — can overwhelm the national conversation, “Nine Moments for Now,” an exhibition at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins...
Boston Globe: 'Searing images in a sweeping show about race and democracy'
The operatic opening notes in “Nine Moments for Now,” a sweeping exhibition about democracy, race, and society at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, are grounded in violence and grief.
DigBoston: 'FEATURE: NINE MOMENTS FOR NOW'
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Wonderland: '‘What Does Winning Look Like?’—Cooper Gallery’s Riveting Look At Blackness During Trump, #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo'
Near the start of “Nine Moments for Now,” the riveting exhibition at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center in Cambridge through Jan. 21, is a hall of black and white photos of the dead.
Artslant Magazine: 'Mint Tea, Gossip, and Celebration'
Wole Soyinka is someone to celebrate. Africa's most acclaimed writer, dramatist, poet, novelist, "writer of genius", politico activist who spent 22 months as prisoner of conscience and, for the most part has transcended negativity in a host of camps. He’s...
Boston Globe: 'The Ticket: What’s happening in the local arts world'
Dell Marie Hamilton curates this examination of art’s intersection with politics. The show is part of For Freedoms, a nationwide campaign exploring Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s four tenets of human rights, famously depicted by Norman Rockwell.
Boston Globe: 'Harvard's Cooper Gallery updates the blackamoor'
‘ReSignifications,” at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, is a pointed object lesson. What can we learn from blackamoors, the servile black figures in art history? Thirty-six blackamoor statues, mostly made in the 18th and...
Wicked Local Cambridge: 'Around Cambridge'
The Cooper Gallery’s spring 2018 exhibition “ReSignifications” links classical and popular representations of African bodies in European art, culture and history as it interprets and interrogates the “Blackamoor” trope in Western culture that emerged at...
Bay State Banner: 'Blackamoor no more: Contemporary artworks shatter oppressive colonial narrative'
Through May 5, the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art presents “ReSignifications,” a reimagined slice of a 2015 exhibit staged at New York University’s Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy. Guest curator Awam Amkpa has whittled down...
Boston Globe: 'The Ticket: What’s happening in the arts world'
RESIGNIFICATIONS Curator Awam Amkpa asked several contemporary artists to interrogate and respond to the Western art history trope of the blackamoor, an African depicted as servile or decorative. Through May 5.
Huffington Post: 'Harlem at Harvard'
Finally, there is the Ligon — a canvas that reminds one of nothing so much as a monolith tipped on its side, set grayly against a wall that barely abides it. That the 20-foot long painting is the terminus of Harlem: Found Ways, a recent presentation at...
Wicked Local: 'What inspires an artist? Playwright Wole Soyinka's collection on exhibit at Harvard'
Like visiting a new land, viewers of Wole Soyinka’s collection of African sculpture and art in Cambridge will likely encounter works of stunning craft and power that make them want to know more about the artisans who made them and the Nobel laureate who...
