Art, Museums, and the Fear of a Black Planet, Dr. Bridget R. Cooks, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine

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The second Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Distinguished Lecture of the academic year, Art, Museums, and the Fear of a Black Planet, with

Dr. Bridget R. Cooks, Associate Professor ,Department of Art History ,African American Studies and Ph.D. Programs in Visual Studies and Culture and Theory, University of California, Irvine

Ten years after the publication of her book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, scholar and curator Bridget R. Cooks discusses art, museums, and demands for change in the age of Black Lives Matter. She considers the anxieties that Blackness provokes for rethinking art history and museum practices, and explores how artists are already imagining worlds of Black freedom.