Acts of Art in Greenwich Village /
"Acts of Art in Greenwich Village is the first comprehensive account of the six-year history of Acts of Art, a gallery devoted to showcasing the work of Black artists in New York City... Featuring new scholarship on the gallery's most significant group exhibitions alongside an illustrated,...
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New York : Munich :
Hunter College Art Galleries ; Hirmer,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Nigel Jackson's Acts of Art / Howard Singerman
- Acts of Art exhibition history, 1969-1975
- The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition / Ansley Browning
- Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum exhibition / Brianna Golub
- Raven Art Rap / Eve Arballo and Erin Chase
- Tecla Selnick, James Lightbourne, and the BECC's Prison Art program / Karewith Casas and Grace Sanabria
- The Weusi Artists, Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery, and Academy of Fine Arts and Studies / Laura Luo
- Where We At: Black women artists 1971 / Mary Lisette Morris and Nicolas Poblete
- Caribbean and Afro-American women artists: Loïs Mailou Jones's research in Haiti and at Howard / Sondra McGill and Chloe Ming
- Black artists in the New York scene / June Kitahara
- Artist biographies and checklist of the exhibition.
- Featured artists include: Benny Andrews ; James Denmark ; Reginald Gammon ; Harlan Jackson ; Nigel Jackson ; Ben Jones ; Loïs Mailou Jones ; Dindga McCannon ; Enid Richardson Moore ; Ademola Olugebefola ; Ann Tanksley ; Lloyd Toone ; Frank Wimberley ; Hale Woodruff.