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| Jordan Casteel, The Relentless Pursuit, Oil on canvas, 56 × 72 inches, 2025 |
| Jordan Casteel, Direct Response, detail 2021, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 1.4 m. |
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| Jordan Casteel, Direct Response, 2021, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 1.4 m. |
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| Carrie Mae Weems’s Untitled (Woman and Daughter with Children) from The Kitchen Table Series (1990) |
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| Kerry James Marshall, Past Times, from 1997 |
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| Amy Sherald, Precious Jewels by the Sea, 2019, oil on linen, 120 × 108 × 2 1/2 in."Becoming an artist is not empirical. It's not about hard work. I mean, you have to put in the hard work but that doesn't mean you're going to make it. |
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| Kehinde Wiley, John Mensah, Samuel Eto'o and Emmanuel Eboue, ~2010 |
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| Romare Bearden, Serenade, 1969, collage, 45" x 32 " |
Kehinde Wiley, b. 1977, LA

Hank Willis Thomas born 1976 Plainfield

Theaster Gates, born 1973, Chicago
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| Sanford Biggers, Codeswitch, 2018 |
Sanford Biggers, born 1970, LA


Kara Walker, born 1969, California
Radcliffe Bailey, born 1968, NJ (died 2023)

Lyle Ashton Harris, born 1965, Bronx



Lorna Simpson, born1960, Brooklyn

Glenn Ligon, 1960, The Bronx

Renee Cox, born1960, Jamaica

Fred Wilson, born 1954, NY, NY

Carrie Mae Weems, born 1953, Portland, OR

Adrian Piper, born 1948, Ny, NY
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| Kerry James Marshall, Many Mansions, 1994 |
Kerry James Marshall b, 1955, Birmingham, "unequivocally black, emphatically Black."
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| Emma Amos, Valued, 1992 |
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| Faith Ringgold, The Flag is Burning #2, 1997 |
Faith Ringgold, born 1930, NY, NY
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| Bettye Saar, Black Girl's Window, 1969 |
Bettye Saar, b. 1926 LA

Richard Mayhew, b. 1924 Amityville, NY

Charles White b. 1918 Chicago

Jacob Lawrence b. 1917 Chicago
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| Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1946 |
Elizabeth Catlett, b. 1915, Washington DC
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| Romare Bearden, The Black American in Search of His Identity (1969) |
Romare Bearden, 1911, Charlotte

Lois Maillou Jones, b. 1905, Boston
“I SHAPED MY DESTINY EARLY WITH THE CLAY OF NORTH CAROLINA RIVERS … I LOVED TO MAKE THE WHITEWASH FOR MY MOTHER AND WAS EXCITED AT THE IMPRINTS OF THE CLAY AND THE MALLEABILITY OF THE MATERIAL.”

Hale Woodruff, born 1900 Cairo, Il

| Joshua Johnson, The Westwood Children, ~1807 |
Collectors
Two Centuries of Black Art in US
Tom Browkaw opens.
The exhibition opened at the brooklyn museum of art after its debut at LACMA
David Driskoll chimes in– maryland– Fisk, curator of Two Centuries
What? Two Centuries?
Valerie Cassell Oliver:U
Maurice Berger, white art historian, giving perspective
Driskoll: Black art criticized by isolating Black Artists
Sarah Lewis, Harvard
Mary Schmidt Cambell- Spellman
Bigger attendance than any other US-originating exhibition
6 Sanford Biggers
6:50 Jordan Casteel
7:30 Kerry James Marshall comes in, discussion classisite Charles white
8:30 work should be ABOUT something
9:50 Blacks, like Women, have to make representationAL ART
10:39 Bettye Saar important teacher of KJM
11:15 Can you find an artist or work that set you on your path?
14 KJM major early works
16:50 harlem– how is the exhibition about harlem different from summer of soul
James van der Zee comes to common knowledge– why is important for his work to be outside the harlem exhibit organized by whites?
Rujeko Hockley, curator at Whitney
18:20 Faith and Faith in W!A!R! At…
Mary Schmidt Cambell
Mary Wallace
21 Richard Mayhew and classicshere a black aesthetic
23 Spiral (Normal Lewis: is there a negro image? Is there a blac k aesthetic? Normal lewis, ema Amos, Richard Mayhew
28 Richard Powell
31 Robert hudson
32 Radcliff Bailey
Piano
Serious Play
35:30 Kehinde Wiley
38 Amy Sherald
Not about hard work
Collecting: Kaseem Dean; Swiss Beatz, Alicia Keys
49 Glenn Ligon
50 Thelma Golden
52 Lyle Ashton Harris
57 Basquiat
58 Kara Walker- mastered a form and went ahead to develop many other forms…. That’s not enough
58-103 KAra Walker,,,,, 103-105 kara walker more intensely about enslavement.
What is the role of humor in grappling with extreme cases
Subtlety– whole new set of materials.
105 Kara Walker: finish here; intense reflection on enslavement follows.
(Sugar, bad bunny)
105 sanford biggers on kara
105 :40 Carrie mae weems
106 kehinde wiley
Long segment on Studio Museum, Harlem
1:14:40 Theaster Gates, Being a clay guy
Work in the absence of light until there is light. (Theaster Gates)

















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