Metropolitan Museum

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/7/2021
  

  Met Acquires Landmark Photo Archive of NY Black Life

  “[James Van Der Zee] is a central figure, a significant artist, in telling the story of people of African descent,” said Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum. “The photographs are testaments to beauty and power, and he captured the Harlem community and the African American community in all its possibilities.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/23/2021
  

  Allon Schoener, 95, Dies; Curator Caught in Furor Over ‘Harlem’ Show

  Schoener always insisted that critics misunderstood the purpose of the exhibition, which didn't include original paintings by Black artists but did highlight African American photographers. But with distance from the furor, he dismissed claims that he was an early victim of "cancel culture" by recognizing controversy as the price of progress. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/1/2021
  

  Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces

  A Manhattan nurse learned that a painting in her apartment was the missing Panel 28, "Immigrants admitted from all countries: 1820 to 1840—115,773,” in Jacob Lawrence's "Struggle: From the History of the American People."