Art
Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass
I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am at the Wadsworth Atheneum counters the racist images of Black Americans that were presented in mainstream media in the 19th century.
Frederick Douglass
News
In Rochester, Frederick Douglass Monument Torn Down and Found in River
The city, where Douglass made his famous “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” speech in 1852, has 13 statues of the abolitionist.
Announcement
SCAD Museum of Art Announces Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
The museum opens the group exhibition exploring the life and legacy of the preeminent visionary and abolitionist.
Art
Lessons Learned at the Feet of Frederick Douglass
Isaac Julien advances a layered, palimpsestic view of time, not as progress but as a series of lessons. This, then is a note of what I learned.
Test 2018 posts
The Obama Portraits and the History of African American Portraiture
Like many African American portraitists, Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley represent the Obamas as themselves, and as more than themselves.
Art
Why Frederick Douglass Was the Most Photographed 19th-Century American
In a lifelong battle against racist imagery, Frederick Douglass had over 160 portraits taken, which he hoped would create a public acknowledgment of his humanity.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an unfinished masterpiece, artists on Facebook, Guggenheim's free online catalogues, Okwui Enwezor lectures on art and civic imagination, Russian space, nasty ancient graffiti and much more …