After four museums postponed a major exhibition over concerns about Klan imagery in some paintings, the show is opening in Boston. But the debate continues.
Wicked Local Through the Lens of Art: Building Bridges is a series of vital conversations set to illustrate the power of art in building bridges of empathy, understanding and inclusion in today’s racially charged world.
Weston s Art & Innovation Center is offering three talks from the point of view of the artist, the audience and the collector. Facilitated by artist Linda Bond, each month’s event will focus on the perspective of one of these groups.
Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m.: Interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu will focus her attention on displacement, immigration and assimilation. Join us for an evening with the artist to discuss her practice and the impact that migration, with its many challenges, has on marginalized communities. The talk will include images of her work and an excerpt from the video Tell Me, an element of the progressive exhibit Leavings/Belongings currently at SITE Santa Fe.
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Rosa Rodriguez-Williams MSW’99
The BC alum is the new senior director of belonging and inclusion at Boston s Museum of Fine Arts.
As a child, Rosa Rodriguez-Williams didn’t visit many museums with her family, who moved from Puerto Rico to Lawrence, Massachusetts, when she was 8 years old. “Being from the inner city, we felt that museums weren’t for people like us,” Rodriguez-Williams MSW’99 said. A few decades later, she’s now helping make one more inclusive. In September, Rodriguez-Williams who built her career creating space for people from marginalized communities was named the first-ever senior director of belonging and inclusion at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she ll work to ensure that guests of all backgrounds feel comfortable visiting the world-class collections. “This is a big place for me to open doors for people that usually would not walk through,” she said.
What museums can learn from Philip Guston and his frank take on âwhite culpabilityâ
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated January 6, 2021, 3:42 p.m.
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Philip Guston s Riding Around, from 1969.Genevieve Hanson/The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth Private Collection
ANDOVER â Itâs right there on the wall of the little rotunda at the Addison Gallery of American Art: Philip Gustonâs âCorridor,â a 1969 painting of a diminutive white-hooded Klansman tilting his head to read a clock on the wall. Itâs the only place around here youâre likely to see such a thing for a while, despite best-laid plans to the contrary. More than that, itâs a window into the museum worldâs slow lope of change alongside a culture in sudden fast-forward.