Name: Discussion on "The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism"
Start: 2025-02-15T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-15T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore

Discussion on "The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism"

Please join us at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 for a discussion on the publication "The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism"
About this Event

On Saturday Feb 15 4pm EST, please join us for a conversation on the exhibition publication The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism between Charles Gaines and Huey Copeland.

The event will also be livestreamed on @artbookps1 !

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In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted "The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism", a category-breaking exhibition of Black artists from different generations, working across Fluxus, Conceptualism, assemblage, photography, and new forms of installation. Challenging the racializing of Black artists’ work, the experimental exhibition confronted the discourse around race difference in the United States by including excerpts of writing by art critics alongside Gaines’s research on the reception of the exhibition’s artists in a reading room.