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Gallery of MoMA Launches Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
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Architect Philip Johnson s Name Covered Up at the MoMA
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Architect Philip Johnson. Photo: Horst P. Horst/Condé Nast via Getty Images.
A collective of artists and designers will obscure architect Philip Johnson’s name from a gallery dedicated to him at the Museum of Modern Art during the run of the museum’s current exhibition about architecture and the communities of the African diaspora, “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.”
Johnson, the famed Modernist architect with well-documented fascist and white supremacist views, will have his name covered by a 10-by-10 foot denim textile conceived by the Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC), a nonprofit group formed by 10 architects and designers in the show.
MoMA agrees to temporarily cover Philip Johnson s name with Black Reconstruction Collective artwork
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World in Progress: The dark side of Cape Town s construction boom
But from apartheid-era South Africa to Rohingya refugees in 21st century Bangladesh, humans have repeatedly used design, construction and city planning to literally cement their prejudices, expelling the oppressed to the fringes of society. And the US is, of course, no exception.
Sekou Cooke, one of the ten artists shown at the Reconstructions exhibition, says that (f)rom slave quarters and farm settlements in the American South to post-migration urban ghettos and slums in the Northeast to public housing projects throughout American cities, the predominant spaces of Black inhabitation in this country have been leftover, disposable, and characterless environments.