Maurice Berger

Dr. Maurice Berger is Research Professor, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC & RACE STORIES columnist for Lens | NY TIMES.

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"Act Your Age," a feature in UNDO MAGAZINE about aging, includes a picture of me with a quote! Photo by the very talented Seher Sikandar.

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Featured artists are Cynthia Bittenfield, Martha Díaz-Adam, Maureen R. Drennan, Nona Faustine, Luther Konadu, Sara Macel, Jean L. Sousa and Derrick D. Woods-Morrow.

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My latest curatorial project, co-curated with my husband, Marvin Heiferman: "Photography Now 2019: The Searchers." Although it is a juried exhibition for the Woodstock Center for Photography, we decided to organize a thematic group show of 8 artists. https://t.co/LD3u9luAS8

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This is a hard one. Wow. One of our greatest writers and minds. And an amazing person..We have lost a great one. R.I.P. Toni Morrison

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One of the greatest and most beautiful writers of the 20th-century. His mind and ideas were decades ahead of their time. I have learned so much from him--writing that has transformed me as a man, as a thinker, and as a writer.

James Baldwin

2 August 1924 – 1 December 1987

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Chuck Stevens says what needs to be said about why most white "allies" are not. A must read.

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Read this outstanding piece of criticism by @PhilipKennicott

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Perspective | LGBT artists sent messages from the closet to survive before Stonewall. Now, homophobes are coopting the technique. https://t.co/SsnLqLEdLX

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@LauraRaicovich @metmuseum @hyperallergic Yes, too many museums make you feel like you're getting away with something.

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@LauraRaicovich @metmuseum @hyperallergic And if they don't turn you away, some museums have started profiling press--asking invasive questions, implying that you should have a specific reason to be there, or asking you to fill out a form.

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@LauraRaicovich @metmuseum @hyperallergic Oh, I see. Most museums require press credentials of some sort. If you join the American Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) you receive a press card that generally works in museums across the world.

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@MarcPerspective I do not know the timing of its return. Thank you for asking.

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The Lens section of the NY TIMES is going on hiatus on the end of the month. Here is my final RACE STORIES column for the section before we go dark: on the ways Gordon Parks's hunanistic photographs of crime influenced his Blaxploitation film, SHAFT.
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Yesterday. On set. Interview for a major HBO documentary. Brilliant director and producers. Incredible crew. We were in this together. A moving experience. More later. Photos by @whywelook (Marvin), of course!

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@PhilipKennicott on the historic appointment of my brilliant colleague and friend, Lonnie Bunch, as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Perspective | Lonnie Bunch isn’t afraid to address white supremacy. What else will that change for the Smithsonian? #LonnieBunch @NMAAHC @Smithsonian https://t.co/2gWMJlMXx2

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Nice to see a graph and link to my RACE STORIES column in yesterday's print edition of the NEW YORK TIMES on Gordon Parks's film SHAFT and its relationship to his earlier crime photographs.

H/T Peter Kunhardt

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This is magnificent news. Lonnie Bunch is amazing. A brilliant and visionary leader, he brought the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture into existence. Now he will lead the Smithsonian, no doubt to new heights. https://t.co/Op7PsHWeKH

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Today. Arts Page of the BOSTON GLOBE. Last week, at the opening of exhibition I curated: GORDON PARKS SELECTIONS FROM THE DEAN COLLECTION. Cooper Gallery. Harvard. With Peter Kunhardt, Skip Gates, Alicia Keys, Kasseem Dean, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

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Last week. Opening of exhibition I curated in collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation and Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University: "Gordon Parks: Selections from the Dean Collection. Talking with Alicia and Swizz.

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My project for Harvard: an exhibition--GORDON PARKS: SELECTION FROM THE DEAN COLLECTION--and public program of Talk Backs in the exhibition. Both part of Sarah Lewis's historic convening at Harvard: "Vision and Justice." 25-26 April.