Exhibition: I Dream a World: Selections From Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women
National Portrait Gallery: I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women, features portraits by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker, from his 1989 book “I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America.” Installed in two parts, the exhibition presents more than 25 photographs of remarkable Black women who...
Exhibition: Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop is the first major exhibition about the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers formed in New York in 1963. Members of the group produced powerful images, sensitively registering Black life in the mid-20th century. *Check directly with venue to confirm scheduling/dates and any visitor requirements/protocols
Exhibition: Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue
Tampa Museum of Art: Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue brings together a focused selection of work from a period of more than 40 years by two of today’s most important and influential photo-based artists. *Check directly with venue to confirm scheduling/dates and any visitor requirements/protocols
Harvard Art Museums Name Makeda Best Curator of Photography
THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS are welcoming back an alum. Makeda Best, who earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, has been tapped to serve as the new curator of photography at Harvard Art Museums. Previously, she was an assistant professor in visual studies at the...
61 Photos of Sea Island Slave Descendants Donated to Smithsonian
BANK OF AMERICA dontated 61 photos of a small community of slave descendants living on a South Carolina sea island to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) this week. According to an AP report published in the Washington Post, the photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe were taken between 1977 and...
