"Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” a highly anticipated exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, opened to the public February 27 (through May 31). Curated by Sean Anderson, of MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, and the scholar Mabel O. Wilson, professor of architecture at Columbia University, the show comprises contemporary work commissioned from ten architects and artists in response to the long legacy of racism, injustice and violence against African Americans, as expressed in the built environment and beyond. The participants are Emmanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, David Hartt, Walter J. Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams. Each focuses on an historically Black town or neighborhood from West Oakland, California and Watts in Los Angeles to New Orleans, Miami, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, New York.
Amanda Williams. Spatial Diagrams. 2020. Ink on paper. 26 x 12” (66.04 x 30.48 cm). Image courtesy of the artist. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Click to enlarge.
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