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When artist and art historian David Driskell brought his groundbreaking "Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750-1950" exhibition to a series of museums in 1976 and 1977, some people thought
Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College release Art and Civil Rights Initiative digital catalogue Romare Bearden (1911-1988), The Train, 1975. etching, 29.875 x 22 in. Bequest of Sara Virginia Jones. Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art. 1991.214. JACKSON, MISS .- The Mississippi Museum of Art announced today it has published a digital catalogue documenting a series of five exhibitions and related public programs organized in partnership with Tougaloo College through the Museums Art and Civil Rights Initiative. In 2017, MMA and the College joined creative forces to form ACRI, ...
Print When artist and art historian David Driskell brought his groundbreaking “Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750-1950" exhibition to a series of museums in 1976 and 1977, some people thought that more than 200 works by 63 artists (and some anonymous crafts workers) was too much of a good thing. Driskell did not agree. “I was not looking for a unified theme,” Driskell told The New York Times in a 1977 interview. “And this, of course, usually upsets the critics because they want to see a continuous kind of thing.” When you are trying to right the exclusionary wrongs of histo...
In an early scene in the new HBO documentary, Black Art: In the Absence of Light, artist and art historian David Driskell is working on a new piece in his studio, dipping his paintbrush into a bottle of glue to stick scraps of paper onto a canvas. He notes that it was Romare Bearden who inspired his lifelong commitment to collage—so much so that after he met the renowned artist in the late 1970s, he created a piece in his honor. When Bearden himself later saw that work in a show, he wasn’t impressed. “What you’re doing there is not David, it’s Romie,” he said to Driskell. Later...
Kerry James Marshall (photo: HBO) In 1976, David Driskell took on the monumental task of mounting “Two Centuries of African American Art.” First displayed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before traveling across the country to Dallas, Atlanta and New York, the show presented a cross section of art made by Black people in America. A new HBO documentary, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” looks at the legacy of Driskell (1931-2020), a Black American scholar, artist and curator, and his revolutionary landmark exhibition. Weaving together interviews with major contemporary art...