Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...as the “forgotten pandemic,” COVID-19 took place in an era of global connection and social media, allowing for new audiences and shared artistic production. While scientists worked to understand the...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...women's hard-won emancipation, expanding political consciousness, and support by an occupying federal military force. Briefly in the postbellum years, this alternative history achieved preeminence in Charleston's local reckoning with slavery....
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...in everyday life, offers a compelling alternative to the more widely circulated photographs of brutality and violence typical of civil rights photography. Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.008...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...up the C & O Canal from the capital city. After extensive field research and laboratory tests on local stone deposits, geologist David Dale Owen, brother of Congressman Robert Dale...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...America. History is the subject—personal, racial, national. The idiom is complex, drawing from Rauschenburg and Basquiat, Bearden and Lawrence, articulated in painting, assemblage, drawing, and sculpture. Like Kerry James Marshall,...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...separated along the diagonal from lighter fabrics, the resulting blocks can be arranged to form a dozen or more different visual effects. In this example, the light and dark blocks...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...New York, and several other cities on the East Coast, and recorded ten songs: a total of just twenty-two minutes of music, what Christgau called “their tiny life” in liner...
Making History
...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...
Scarecrow
...cawed Unmoved, their plucking a parade. The wind blew the odor of death In my direction. I had a mind To cry; I shut my marble eyes Too afraid to...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...