Tag: Cooper Gallery

  • Nation & World

    ‘We had to create something new — and we did’

    Ahead of Harvard visit, two legends of hip-hop recall New York beginnings

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    Ice T and Afrika Islam laugh together in studio in image from 1980s.
  • Nation & World

    Rethinking Cuban art

    The new exhibition hopes to revolutionize how Cuban art is considered through the inclusion of artists of African descent who were usually excluded from shows.

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    Alejandro de la Fuente and Pablo Gonzalez hang exhibition labels.
  • Nation & World

    The soul of a jazz man

    In “The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” nearly 80 photographs large and small document Stewart’s fascination with capturing the country’s signature art form — one rooted in improvisation — on film.

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    "The Bow" photo by Frank Stewart
  • Nation & World

    Bringing art to the people it depicts

    The rapper and record producer Kasseem Dean, also known as Swizz Beatz, and his wife, Alicia Keys, own the largest private collection of Gordon Parks’ photographs in the world. They’re sharing it at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, and that’s just the beginning.

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    Six people including singer Alicia Keys and her husband Kasseem Dean pose for a group photo
  • Nation & World

    Life behind the pose

    “Black Chronicles II,” at the Cooper Gallery, explores issues of race and identity through archival photographs from Victorian England.

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  • Nation & World

    Cooper Gallery makes an entrance

    Architect and curator David Adjaye, co-curator Mariane Ibrahim-Lenhardt, art collector Jean Pigozzi, and Director Vera Grant led an open house and tour of the new Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, which will open this week.

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