Tag: Cooper Gallery
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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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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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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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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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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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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.