THE SCHOMBORG CENTER for RESEARCH in BLACK CULTURE
515
Malcom X Blvd. At 135th Street. 212-491-2200 Subway:
2/3 to 135th Street
HARLEM IS…is a multimedia, intergenerational,
living history program that celebrating 30 Harlemites (ages
50-100) whose contributions to the fields of art, music, education,
politics, community service and sports define Harlem’s
rich and diverse cultural legacy. Told through the powerful
eyes of young people, harlem is… chronicles Harlem’s
evolution with the writing of students, poets and elders, contemporary
photographic portraits, archival photos, a graphic timeline,
neighborhood maps, sound and video clips, and an interactive
website.
MUSEUM
for AFRICAN ART
Museum
for African Art. 36-01 43rd Avenue at 36th St. Long Island
City, NY (Queens) 718-784-7700. Subway: 7 to 33rd Street Station.
Three blocks up to 36th Street, one block left from Queens
Boulevard to 43rd Avenue.
MATERIAL DIFFERENCES: ART AND IDENTITY
IN AFRICAN ART
This exhibition examines the extensive range of materials
used in the creation of African art and reveals the inherent
relationships between the materials, their significance as
media, artistic techniques, and the role of artists.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
MASTERS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
The New York Historical Society. 2 West 77th St. (212) 873-3400.
Subway: B, C to 81st St. Museum of Natural History. This exhibition
of 61 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by African American
artists in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art
Museum reveal both universal concerns and a special awareness
of “being Black” in the 20th-century. Historical
events, political issues, personal memories, music and folklore
traditions, and deep spirituality inspired these artists.
Among the masters included are Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthe,
Romare Bearden, Horace Pippin, and William H. Johnson.
INTERNATIONAL CENTER for PHOTOGRAPHY
The Photo League: Harlem Document and Related Work
1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St. 212-857-0000. Subway:
F to 42nd St. The exhibition will concentrate on the Photo
League’s images of Harlem, made by such figures as Aaron
Siskind, Jack Manning, Morris Engel, and Harold Corsini, among
others. It will draw on the rich collection of the League’s
work assembled by Beaumont Newhall. The story of the Photo
League is one of the most compelling chapters in the history
of social documentary photography in New York City. Established
during the Great Depression of the 1930s, members worked in
a variety of New York neighborhoods, the “reporter groups”
photographing all aspects of each of their chosen locales.
Organized jointly from the collections of the International
Center of Photography (ICP) and the George Eastman House (Rochester,
NY), The Photo League: Harlem Document and Related Works will
be shown at ICP from February 28-May 25, 2003.
BRONZEVILLE: BLACK CHICAGO IN
PICTURES, 1941–1943
Between 1915 and the early 1940s, in a mass exodus now known
as the Great Migration, nearly two million rural African Americans
left the South for the cities of the North. Lured by industries
clamoring for men and by the opportunity for greater equality,
they left the land and thrust themselves into the vortex of
modern urban life. For many, the destination was Bronzeville,
a long sweep of exclusively black neighborhoods below Chicago’s
downtown, also known as the South Side.
Richard Wright described this place in his famous novel Native
Son (1940), and he was among the first to focus the nation’s
attention on what was happening there, particularly in its
most impoverished slums. By then, Bronzeville’s boundaries
had ceased to expand, but new migrants continued to arrive,
and very few African Americans were able to move to other
parts of the city. This cramped "Black Belt," home
to more than a quarter million people, was the result of white
homeowners’ and landlords agreements’ to isolate
African Americans within all-black neighborhoods.
STUDIO
MUSEUM in HARLEM
144 W. 125th Street btwn. Lenox /
7th Ave. 212-864-4500 Subway: 2/3 to
125th St.
BROOKLYN
MUSEUM OF ART
Brooklyn Museum of Art. 200 Eastern Pkwy. Brooklyn, 718-638-5000
Subway: 2,3 to Eastern Pkwy.-Brooklyn Museum. The first museum
in America to display African objects as art, Brooklyn's collection,
particularly strong in works from central Africa, is one of
the largest and most important in this country. Recently the
galleries were expanded and reinstalled with 250 works of
art, including several pieces that have never before been
on public view. Also displayed are a carved ivory gong from
the Edo people of Benin and an 18th-century wooden figure
of King Mishe MiShyaang maMbul of the Kuba people of Zaire,
both of which are the only objects of their kind in the United
States. Masks, statues, jewelry, and household objects are
also displayed.
THE
BRONX MUSEUM of the ARTS
1040 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 718-681-6000.
Subway: 4 to 161st/Yankee Stadium D to 161st/Yankee Stadium
or 167th Street (from Manhattan before PM rush hours and to
Manhattan after AM rush hours) B to 161st/Yankee Stadium or
167th Street (from Manhattan during PM rush hours and to Manhattan
during AM rush hours)
CENTER
for ART and CULTURE - SKYLIGHT GALLERY
1368 Fulton Ave. btwn. New York / Brooklyn Ave. Brooklyn
Subway: A,C to Nostrand Ave. 718-636-6949
CLINTON
HILLS SIMPLY ART GALLERY
583 Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn 718-857-0074 Subway:
G to Clinton/Washington Owner Lurita Brown's art and framing
shop provides a great opportunity for emerging black
artist and photographers to display their work. For those
who are building an art collection or adding to the collection
LB has something for everyone.
SAVACOU
GALLERY
240-244 E.13th St. btwn. 2nd
/ 3rd 212-473-6904
Subway: 4,5,6 to 14th St.
