Never could quite get my “Fro” to such lofty heights. Leave it to the Brooklyn Museum to remind me with their current exhibit, Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties .
The presentation “offers a focused look at painting, sculpture, graphics, and photography from a decade defined by social protest and American race relations. In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this exhibition considers how sixty-six of the decade’s artists, including African Americans and some of their white, Latino, Asian American, Native American, and Caribbean contemporaries, used wide-ranging aesthetic approaches to address the struggle for racial justice.”
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
Until July 6, 2014
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
(Image: “Lawdy Mama “, Barkley Hendrick, 1966)