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Art and Mourning
The latest exhibition at New Yorkâs New Museum presents a searing cross-section of work by Black American artists. Titled
Grief and Grievance, it was the vision of Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), a pioneering advocate of modern African art since the early 1990s, known for selecting and arranging works to elicit dialogues with wider themes such as colonialism, apartheid and black liberation. In 2018, under the overtly white-nationalist presidency of Donald Trump, Enwezor was invited to organise a major exhibition at the museum in Manhattan.
Already suffering from cancer, Enwezor was simultaneously preparing a series of talks for Harvardâs Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series on the relationship between black mourning and white nationalism, as expressed through contemporary black art. In his lecture drafts â which he was unable to present due to his declining health â Enwezor developed the spine of what would become
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw helped fund the painting s acquisition.
March 8, 2021
Amy Sherald in her studio
with her portrait of Breonna Taylor (2020). Photo by Joseph Hyde courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.
Vanity Fair.
Taylor was asleep in bed on March 13, 2020, when police officers forced their way into her apartment and fatally shot the 26-year-old emergency medical technician. Her death became a rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation last year.
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair’s guest editor for a special edition on activism in September 2020, had tapped Sherald to paint Taylor for the issue’s cover. It was the artist’s second commission, after painting the official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Common calendar, Packet papers, March 5
Common calendar, Packet papers, March 5
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