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Kwame Brathwaite: Celebrity and the Everyday: Co-curated by Jesse Williams and Kwame S. Brathwaite

Past exhibition
3 November 2018 - 12 January 2019
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  • The Photos That Lifted Up the Black Is Beautiful Movement

    The Photos That Lifted Up the Black Is Beautiful Movement

    Smith, Melissa. Lens Blog, New York Times November 27, 2018
    For over 50 years, the photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured African-American beauty and fashion, giving visual power to black power. The intersection of West 125th Street...
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  • Review: Exhibitions by Kwame Brathwaite, Deana Lawson  and Meleko Mokgosi challenge how blackness is represented

    Review: Exhibitions by Kwame Brathwaite, Deana Lawson and Meleko Mokgosi challenge how blackness is represented

    Mizota, Sharon. Los Angeles Times November 14, 2018
    In a fortunate coincidence, three shows currently on view in L.A. engage in a rich conversation on how black people are represented in the West....
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  • Jesse Williams Co-Curates Photo Show on Black Icons and Ordinary People

    Jesse Williams Co-Curates Photo Show on Black Icons and Ordinary People

    Riefe, Jordan. The Hollywood Reporter November 5, 2018
    At the opening of photographer Kwame Brathwaite's new show 'Celebrity and the Everyday,' the 'Grey's Anatomy' star talks about black representation in media as well...
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  • Kwame Brathwaite Black is Beautiful

    Kwame Brathwaite Black is Beautiful

    Aperture Foundation
    New York, NY
    October 1, 2018
    Kwame Brathwaite Black is Beautiful Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles May 23 – September 1, 2019 Columbia Museum of Art Columbia, South Carolina June 26,...
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  • An Artist's Ornate Natural Hair Styles, Through the Eyes of a Legendary Photographer of Black Beauty

    An Artist's Ornate Natural Hair Styles, Through the Eyes of a Legendary Photographer of Black Beauty

    Bohnacker, Siobhán. The New Yorker March 30, 2018
    A few weeks ago, the eighty-year-old Harlem photographer Kwame Brathwaite arrived at MOMA PS1, in Queens, wearing a modish three-piece suit and gleaming brogues. “This...
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