The Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, has announced a major exhibition of Spanish dress and fashion that will pair paintings from the Meadows’s collection with historic dress and accessories from the Museo del Traje, Centro de Investigación del Patrimonio Etnológico in Madrid. Canvas & Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje marks the first major collaboration between this important Spanish institution and an American museum and will include approximately 40 works from the Meadows .
Dallas museum stitches together first Spanish fashion + art exhibition
Zapatos (Shoes), 1991. Joan Miró,
Photo courtesy of Meadows Museum Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta,
Photo courtesy of Meadows Museum
Vestido Infantil Isabel de Bourbón y Bourbón (Dress), c. 1854–66.
Photo courtesy of Meadows Museum A first-of-its-kind exhibition at Dallas Meadows Museum will connect the seams between art and fashion in Spain throughout history. The exhibition will mark the first major collaboration between the Spanish institution and an American museum and will include about 40 works from the Meadows alongside examples of dress and accessories from the Museo del Traje (Spanish National Museum for Fashion), a release says.
One hundred years ago, violent white mobs launched a horrific siege on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Okla., a predominantly Black business and residential district that came to be known as âBlack Wall Streetâ for its cultural and economic prowess in the 1910s.
Captured Negros on Way to Convention Hall - During Tulsa Race Riot, June 1st, 1921. Place: Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma | (Photo credit: DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University)
Following unfounded accusations that a Black man, Dick Rowland, had assaulted a white woman, Sarah Page, white Tulsans retaliated by taking up arms and attacking the Greenwood District. From May 31 to Jun. 1, 1921, they destroyed 35 city blocks, burned homes, looted, demolished businesses, schools, churches and a hospital and murdered and maimed hundreds of Black residents. Some scholars estimate 300 people were killed and 800 people were wounded. Tulsa resident Buck Colbert Franklin wrote of aerial attacks in his eyewitnes
A 1921 photograph of the Greenwood District burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre Photo: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Tulsa Race Massacre, a historic example of domestic terrorism during which mobs of white men murdered and injured countless Black citizens and burned down Black-owned businesses in the city’s Greenwood District, has been little studied until recently. This month marks 100 years since the two-day riot, which has been described by contemporary historians as the “single worst incident of racial violence” in the US, and artists and institutions are recognising the event and its fallout through displays and projects.
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