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'It's about looking around us': New York's Frieze art fair tackles social justice | Frieze New York


Clearly, social media has changed how we read images – from protests to state violence and grief. As she explained: “How images contribute to our notion of citizenship of who belongs in this moment in American society is more pressing than ever.”
Now, Lewis is being honored at the latest edition of Frieze New York, the annual art fair which opens to the public on 5 May until 9 May at the Shed in Manhattan.
The Tribute to Vision & Justice is more than just a section, it’s a fair-wide project. More than 50 art galleries and institutions will focus on showing artwork that deals with justice as a tribute to Lewis, an art history professor at Harvard University, and her work with the Vision & Justice Project. ....

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Art Historian Sarah Lewis on Why Black Artists Have Been 'Over-Exhibited and Under-Theorized'


Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. (Photo by Stu Rosner)
This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Bridget R. Cooks, and Darby English.

One cannot consider the present-day field of African American art history without mention of Sarah Lewis. The associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University whose groundbreaking Vision & Justice project has become a part of Harvard’s core art history curriculum is a force to be reckoned with.
With her widely watched 2017 TEDX Talk on visual imagery as a change agent for narratives of Black life, Lewis argued that the power of photography can affect our perceptions of justice, reshaping our understanding of society. She has served both on Obama’s National Arts Policy Committee and as a curatorial advisor for Brooklyn’s hig ....

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