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Black History Month in Museum Studies Winter 2021
New York City Museums:
1.-3.
On Display: "How museums can help shape the narrative around immigration" video
NMAAM:
4.
The National Museum of African American Music
Music:
5.
New York Times
Op Doc: Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers'
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Wynton:
6
NPR's Tiny Desk: JCOL Septet with Wynton Marsalis
7.
NYT's
"5 Minutes That Will Make You Love String Quartets"
Dance, Media, and Lit:
8.-10..
Black is Beautiful
Theater:
11.
All Arts: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Names 10 Playwrights As Finalists
Lit:
12.
The New Yorke
r: The Twenty-Two-Year-Old Poet Who Lit Up the Stage at the Biden Inauguration"
Maya Angelou's 'On The Pulse of Morning"
(I saw it live!)
13.
David F. Walker's
The Black Panther Party
(2021)
Ken Quattro's
Invisible Men: the Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books
(2020)
Strong African American Women Fall 2021
Visual Art:
Older Generation:
1.-3.
Alma Thomas: Everything is Beautiful: A Washington DC Citywide Celebration
4.
The High Museum's
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
exhibition
5.
Armory Center for the Arts' Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe
6.
Susan Stamberg's
NPR
story "Buttons, beads and bravado: Celebrating the simple Joh in Aminah Robinson's art"
Let's Make a Puzzle:
7.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art's
There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art
exhibition
8.
Apostrophe Puzzles
Crazy Texas:
9.
DAM's Coming Soon: "Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared" video
COVID MANIFESTO:
10.
Carnegie Museum of Art's
Cauleen Smith's Pandemic Diaries
exhibition
Music:
10.
All Arts' The Andantes: Motown's Secrect Blend video
Extra Credit Assignment for Quiz 1 2021
Jazmine Hughes's
NYT Magazine
article "The Passion of Questlove"
Susan Dominus' NYT T Magazine article "Lynn Nottage"
Henry Ossawa Tanner and Cole Swensen Reading Homework Fall 2021
1.
The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water
, c. 1907
2.
Le Touquet
, c. 1910
3.
The Mosque in Cairo
, 1897
4.
The Jew's Wailing Place
, c. 1898
5.
A View of Palestine
, 1898
6.
Nicodemus, 1899
Nicodemus coming to Christ
, 1927
7.
The Good Shepherd
, 1902-3
8.
Abraham's Oak
, 1905
9
.
Moonlight, Walls of Tangiers,
1913
10.
Entrance to the Casbah
, 1912
11.
Gateway, Tangier
, 1910
12.
Palace of Justice, Tangier, 1912-13
13.
Return at Night from the Market
, 1912
14.
Etaples Fisher Folk
, 1923
15
.
Fisherman's Return
, 1926
16.
The Miraculous Haul of Fishes
, 1913-14
African American Art and Culture Fall 2022
Pots:
1.
The Met's
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Edgefield, South Carolina
exhibition
Theater:
2.
Guthrie Theater: Suzan-Lorie Parks'
Sally & Tom
(2022)
Penumbra Theater: Harrison David Rivers'
Weathering
(2022)
Art and Music:
3.-6.
Adam Bradley's
NYT T Magazine
article "The Artists Turning Nina Simone's Childhood Home Into A Creative Destination"
Recent Awards:
Heinz Awards 2022:
7.-8.
Vanessa German
Cauleen Smith
9.
MacArthur "Genius". Awards 2022
Two Women Artists:
10.
The deYoung Museum's Faith Ringgold: American Story exhibition video
Miss Alma Thomas" An Life in Color
Video Trailer
President Obama Portraits:
11.
Robin Pogrebin's
NYT
article "Official Obama Portraits Are Finally Unveiled at the White House"
Kehinde Wiley's
President Barak Obama
, 2018
Later:
1.
Mia's The Object Podcast: The Possibly True Story of An American Legend
2.
Young Vic: Anthony McCarten's
Collaboration
(2022)
3.
Eric Deggan's
NPR
story "Why Black characters in 'Rings of Power' And 'Little Mermaid' make fantasy better"
4.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art's
We. The Culture: Works By The Eighteen Art Collective
exhibition
African American Art Winter 2021
Quilts:
1.
Gee's Bend Quilters on Nest
Mia:
2.
In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art
exhibition
3.
In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art
exhibition
4.
The Transcontinental Dialogue Project and the Visual Altar
Conceptual Art vs. Commercial Art:
5.
Denver Art Museum's
Senga Nengudi: Topologies
exhibition
6.
UPS: Proudly Unstoppable 30: Sophia Yeti
Yeshi Designs
Photography:
7.
Guy Trebay's
NYT
article "Gordon Parks Was The Godfather of Cool"
8.
Jack Shainman Gallery's
Gordon Parks: Half And Whole
exhibition
You are on the Committee:
9..
Dionne Searcey's
NYT
article "Kehinde Wiley's Black Rock Resident Artists Are Named"
Farah Sayer's "A Painter Explores HIs Royal Roots"
Siddhartha Mitter's "In 177 Portraits, an Artist's Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse"
African American Art Winter 2021 2
1.
MoMa's
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
exhibition
2.
The Met's
Inside the Studio: Decoding the symbolism of Kerry James Marshall's 2014 painting Untitled (Studio)
3.
Artists on the Future: Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Thelma Golden video
4.
Museum Hue
5.
The Black Index
exhibition
6.
Dan Schindel's Hyperallergic article "Stream Afrofuturist Gems Including John Akomfrah's The Last Angel of History"
7.
Ann-Marie Cahill's Bookriot article "The Obama Presidential Center and Library Breaking Ground This Year"
Black History Month 2022
Dance:
PBS'
Ailey
documentary trailer
1.-2.
Christopher Booker's
NPR
story "How Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater balances history and innovation
3.-4.
Bill T Jones remembers the first time he met Alvin Ailey
Music:
5.
PBS
Sound Fields
: How Black Culture Influenced Drum line
6.
Elizabeth Blair's "Questlove and Black Thought help kids 'Rise Up, Sing Out' in a new Disney series"
7.
The Roots featuring Bilal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Opera:
8.
Terrence Blanchard and Kasi Leomonns'
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
(2021) at the Met Opera
Theater:
9.
An interview with the creators of the Underground Railroad Game
Lit:
10.
David Wright Falade's
Black Color Rising
(2022)
Tonya Mosley's wbur interview: "Making Our Way Home" Illustrates History Of African American Great Migration"
Media:
11.
The National Gallery's
James Van Der Zee's Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem
exhibition
12.
Walter Ray Watson's
NPR
article "A picture of U.S. democracy in action: Black people at work, rest and play"
Two African American Female Artists Homework Assignment Fall 2022
2.
All Arts' Julie Mehretu -- Palimpsest
Eugene Bullard Meets some African American Performers 2021
1.
BBC's Only Artists: Helen Cammock meets Suhayla El Bushra
2. PBS American Masters: Unladylike 2020:
Gladys Bentley
Sissieretta Jones
Extra:
1.
All Arts: Isolation to Creation 2 Episode
2.
PBS Sound Field
: Jazz Shaped Hip-Hop, but How did Hip-Hop Change Jazz!?
Media:
3.
Black Women Photographers website
Panel Discussion Poster Homework Winter 2021
1.
Clint Smith's
Atlantic Monthly
article "Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It: The Federal Writers' Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past"
Noah Lewis
Janice Crawford
Gregory Freeland
2. Young Gifted And Black: A New Generation of Artists:
The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art (2020):
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
Dominic Chambers
Alex Bradley Cohen at the Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Arcmanoro Niles
Jennifer Packer at Sikkema Jenkins & CO.
Chiffon Thomas
9. Kerry James Marshall Reading Homework Fall 2021
2.
The Lost Boys
, 1993
De Style
, 1993
4.
44 works by Charles at LACMA
8.
7am Sunday Morning
, 2003
Edward Hopper's
Sunday Morning
, 1930
9.
School of Beauty, School of Culture
, 2012
Hans Holbein's
The Ambassadors
, 1533
Geniuses Fall 2021
MacCarthur Genius Awards:
2018:
Dominique Morisseau (Theater)
Okwui Okpokwasili (Dance)
2019:
Saidiya Hartman (Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian)
2020:
N.K. Jemisin (Speculative Fiction Writer)
Jacquelin Woodson (Writer)
2021:
Nicole Fleetwood (Art Historian and Curator)
Jacquelin Stewart (Film Scholar, Archivist, and Curator)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Historian and Writer)
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Choreographer and Dance Entrepreneur)
Black History Month II 2022
Visual:
1.
Patrick Werner's
NYT
article "National Cathedral Chooses Artist to Replace Windows Honoring Confederates"
2.
The Morgan Library's
Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South
exhibition
3.
Dred Scott: We're Going To End Slavery
at the Christine Tierney Gallery
The Black Panthers:
4.
KCET Artbound: Emory Douglas: The Black Panhter Artist
Kehinde Wiley's
Blue Boy
:
5.
Philip Kennicott's
Washington Post
article "Breonna Taylor's image adorned T-Shirts, signs and street murals. Now her portrait is in the Smithsonian"
At Auction:
6.
Christie's
Say it Loud: Visionaries of Self
exhibition
Painting:
7..
Ted Loos'
NYT
"Painting Black Warriors, With Michael K. Williams as HIs Model"
8.
Colby Art Museum's
Bob Thompson This House is Mine
exhibition
Community:
9.
Portland Museum of Art's
APEX: Sharita Towne & A Black Art Ecology of Portland
exhibition