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Boston Globe, 'Photo shows at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery and BRIDGE Gallery meditate on the meaning of memory'
The past is very much present
What makes it great?: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness
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...
12 Exhibits You Should See This Black History Month
"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...
Harvard Gazette: 'The soul of a jazz man'
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...
Boston Globe: 'Black history is for sale in Chicago. Whoever owns the culture, controls the narrative'
"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...
Bloomberg: 'Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz Snap Up Work From In-Demand Artist'
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.
Hyperallergic: 'An Exhibition of Gordon Parks’s Photography Suggests New Roles for African-American Collectors'
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. Dean and his wife...
