Daily Archives: April 19, 2017


Friday, April 21st, 10:00am–5:30pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre Landscape and seascape have been abiding interests in the history of American art, inspiring iconic national imagery and stimulating significant bodies of literature. Many studies have examined how landscape and marine painting encode American culture, politics, and philosophy, often promoting a monolithic […]

April 21 | “American Identities on Land and at Sea” ...


IRADAC Fellows Program Fall 2017/Spring 2018 Purpose The IRADAC Fellowship provides institutional and intellectual support for Ph.D. candidates at the writing stage. Organized around an interdisciplinary seminar, the IRADAC Dissertation Fellowship offers sustained and supportive criticism among scholars writing on any area of the African Diaspora.  During the academic year, […]

Due May 5 | Applications for the IRADAC Fellows Program





April 22, 2017 1:00–5:00 p.m. Brooklyn Museum, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor Join us for a weekend celebration of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85[brooklynmuseum.org]. On Saturday we present a special screening of artist Julie Dash’s acclaimed 1991 feature, Daughters of the Dust, and her early short films, […]

April 22 | Julie Dash Film Marathon


Symposium: We Wanted a Revolution April 21, 2017 11:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.  Brooklyn Museum, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor This daylong symposium features four panels on black revolutionary art practices, including talks and performances by artists in the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85[brooklynmuseum.org] and related scholars. Participants include […]

April 21 | Symposium-We Wanted a Revolution