Civil Rights

Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott.jpg - Restoration (JPEG)
Outrage Over Rosa Parks Memorial Bus Seats Raises Important Questions
Early this February, Houston Metro announced the installation of commemorative seat covers to honor Rosa Parks on her birthday. Unfortunately, though perhaps unsurprisingly, the covers struck a nerve…
Mounir Fatmi, Maximum Sensation, 2010. Fifty skateboards, plastic, metal, textile, 5 × 8 × 31 11/16 in. (12.7 × 20.3 ×80.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum's “Slipstream” Falls Victim to Group Show Syndrome
As years go, 2020 was indubitably a very bad one. Naturally, this raises the question of whether these events will impact art. The Brooklyn Museum attempts an answer with The Slipstream.
Jerry Pinkney Illustration of MLK Jr and other civil rights leaders
Picture the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books
This summer, the High Museum of Art will premiere Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books (August 15–November 8, 2020), an exhibition organized in…