All my lucky NY friends: Im so jealous that you have MOMA and this incredible exhibition right in your backyard. Make a point of seeing it. Do it for me, mkay? (Thank you for sharing this with me Laura Dickerman. Roadtrip?) “One-Way Ticket” intends to bring that legacy and its interpretations into the 21st century, curator Leah Dickerman said, something that seems especially timely amid nationwide protests about police brutality and racial inequality. “This 23-year old kid was looking at lynching, voter rights, riots in St. Louis of all places, the capricious incarceration of black men,” she said. “This gives us a sense of the long history of these concerns. “ She added: “We’re trying to show Lawrence’s deep, deep engagement with other contemporary work across mediums. His work is an incredibly innovative form of political speech.” To put Lawrence’s work in historical perspective, MoMA will showcase the work of contemporaries who interpreted the migration, including Richard Wright and Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Gordon Parks and Dorothea Lange, as well as painters like Romare Bearden and Charles White. Working with MoMA, the poet Elizabeth Alexander commissioned 10 poets to write works inspired by Lawrence. She wrote in an email that she wanted to see how great African-American poets would respond to Lawrence’s work — his colors and compositions...
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:58:52 +0000
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