ARTISTS
About Things Loved: Blackness And Belonging
17 May, 2019 - 21 Jun, 2019
Black culture and museum institutions have often had a negative relationship. Historically, this has included the theft of cultural objects, the appropriation of styles, and the devaluation of skilled practices, as well as the marginalization and exclusion of Black artists from exhibitions and collections. Museums have been implicated in antiblack practices that present racial difference as biological fact rather than social construction, and exclude, marginalize, and devalue Black art, Black artists, and Black life. Recognizing this, About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging centers a diverse array of Black art in the hope of addressing these questions: To whom does blackness belong? Where does blackness belong? How can blackness belong within the museum?
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Black culture and museum institutions have often had a negative relationship. Historically, this has included the theft of cultural objects, the appropriation of styles, and the devaluation of skilled practices, as well as the marginalization and exclusion of Black artists from exhibitions and collections. Museums have been implicated in antiblack practices that present racial difference as biological fact rather than social construction, and exclude, marginalize, and devalue Black art, Black artists, and Black life. Recognizing this, About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging centers a diverse array of Black art in the hope of addressing these questions: To whom does blackness belong? Where does blackness belong? How can blackness belong within the museum?
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- Betye Saar
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Chakaia Booker
- Charles Gaines
- Charles White
- Charles White
- Daniel Halter
- Erica Deeman
- Faith Ringgold
- Fred Wilson
- Girma Berta
- Hervé Télémaque
- Julie Mehretu
- Kamau Amu Patton
- Kara Walker
- Lorna Simpson
- Lyle Ashton Harris
- Margo Humphrey
- Mildred Howard
- Peter Bradley
- Raymond Jennings鈥� Saunders
- Romare Bearden
- William Rogers
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