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Art of Jazz: FORM/PERFORMANCE/ NOTES

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Published 2017 This catalogue documents the exhibition Art of Jazz, a collaborative installation at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art with one section ( FORM) installed at the Harvard Art Museums. The book explores the...

Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present

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Published 2017 In the first examination of Diago’s creative work during his entire career, Alejandro de la Fuente provides parallel English- and Spanish-language text, illustrated throughout. The book traces Diago’s singular efforts to construct new pasts...

WOLE SOYINKA: Antiquities Across Times and Place

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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...

Harlem: Found Ways

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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...

Cécile Fromont Appointed as new HAA Professor and as First Faculty Director of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center

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The Department of History of Art and Architecture is delighted to announce the appointment of Cécile Fromont as a professor in our department. Born in Martinique, and with degrees from Science-Po and Harvard, Fromont has published field-changing books on...

Harvard Crimson: 'Cooper Gallery Imbues Collecting with Storytelling'

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Bathed in warm light, the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery’s newest exhibition, “Wole Soyinka: Antiquities Across Times and Place,” provides a critical take on a collector’s purpose. Slated to run through December 21, the show provides the setting for a series of...

Remembrance, Recollection and Reflection: A Conversation with Craig Bailey, Philip Robinson, and Michèle Oshima

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Please join photographer Craig Bailey, Poet Philip Robinson, and Michèle Oshima for a commemoration of the subjects of "The Faces of the AIDS Crisis" photos in the Cooper Gallery's "Nine Moments for Now" exhibition on Friday, January 18 at 6 pm. We will...

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Scholar to Scholar: A Conversation w/ Nikki Greene & Kimberly Juanita Brown

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As “Nine Moments for Now” closes its exciting run at the Cooper Gallery, we invite Kimberly Juanita Brown and Nikki A. Greene to articulate their responses to the content and impact of the show. Brown is the Chair of Gender Studies and an Associate...

Lecture with Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher: 'African Twilight: Vanishing Ceremonies of the African Continent'

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EVENT WEBSITE For the last forty years American born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher have journeyed over 300,000 miles travelling through 44 countries and recording over 150 cultures on the African continent. Their recently published double...

Anti-Racist Resources in the Arts

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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

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