*Emory Douglas: Black PantherAn Exhibition Curated by Sam Durant for the New Museum
Some of Emory Douglas’s images are nearly forty years old, but they are still as powerful as when Douglas first created them. They are dangerous pictures, and they were meant to change the world.
Emory Douglas was the Revolutionary Artist of the Black Panther Party and subsequently became its Minister of Culture, part of the national leadership. He created the overall design of the Black Panther, the Party’s weekly newspaper, and oversaw its layout and production until the Black Panthers disbanded in 1979–80. Throughout the ’60s and ’70s, Douglas made countless artworks, illustrations, and cartoons, which were reproduced in the paper and distributed as prints, posters, cards, and even sculptures. All of them utilized a straightforward graphic style and a vocabulary of images that would become synonymous with the Party and the issues it fought for.
“Emory Douglas: Black Panther” includes a wide variety of Douglas’s work done while a member of the Black Panther Party. Curated by the Los Angeles artist Sam Durant, whose work often deals with political and cultural subjects in American history, the show includes approximately 165 posters, newspapers, and prints dating from 1967–76. Durant met Emory Douglas in 2002 and began working on a book of Douglas’s work, which resulted in a monograph published in 2007. Two years later Durant curated “Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which serves as a model for the exhibition at the New Museum.
*Exhibit is going on until 10/18/09 @ New Museum 235 Bowery Ny, Ny. Hours-Wednesday 12-6 PM
Thursday and Friday 12-9 PM
Saturday and Sunday 12-6 PM
Monday and Tuesday closed Admission:General Admission: $12
Seniors: $10 Check it out folks!!
So, my sister's BFF Tameesha who has been like a second sister to me is pregnant with her 3rd child. I spent my Saturday evening chilling with her, my older sis and nephew @ her baby shower. It was good seeing Meesha so happy, we all had a blast. The best part of the entire night was the fact that Meesha had no idea what the sex of her baby was. Her hubby and everyone else knew except for her. We revealed the baby's sex (which is a boy)@ the shower, Meesha was in tears and sooooo happy being that she has 2 girls and wanted a son so badly. All in all it was a blessed evening and I wish her nothing but the best!!! Sidebar- One of the highlights of the night was my nephew Noah breakdancing...as you can see in the pic below, he is the one on the floor-HILARIOUS!
