Race
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 surveys the art of LA’s African-American community as it was coming into its own.
What would be Gordon Parks’ one hundredth birthday has spawned celebratory shows on view all over New York.
Familiar as we are with the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the day-to-day realities of segregation and racism sometimes escape us. Gordon Parks photographs the separate world of ’50s African-American society.
Bianca Casady is best known as one half of the eccentric and beloved musical duo CocoRosie, but she was a visual artist long before she recorded the first CocoRosie album in a bathroom in Montmarte.
With his photographs, videos, and installations, Hank Willis Thomas explores the rich terrain of the past and present. He collaborates with his peers and encourages non-artists to build projects that focus on the diversity of humanity, including the western media’s images of blackness.
