The Radical Practice of Black Curation: A Symposium
On Thursday, April 11 from 12:00 to 4:30 p.m., The Lewis Center for the Arts presents the The Radical Practice of Black Curation Symposium hosted jointly by the Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics led by Tina Campt, Princeton’s Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor in the Humanities, and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, and supported, in part, by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Racial Reckoning in Art and Performance at Yale University.
The past two decades have witnessed the success of a wide range of Black artists, whose work has been celebrated through their recognition by awards and at festivals including the Venice Biennale, the Hugo Boss Prize, the Turner Prize, the Whitney Biennial, as well as through exhibitions and acquisitions at leading art institutions across the globe. But these successes have been accompanied, and to a considerable extent enabled by, a parallel development within art institutions themselves: the ascent of a visionary group of Black curators and curators of color who have supplanted the role of traditional curatorial gatekeepers and expanded the capacity of arts institutions to recognize the work of an increasingly diverse group of artists.