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Submitted By Felicia Megginson
The Extended Moment : Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs | Exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. The juxtaposition and counterplay of images from the past and of the present set up a visual conversation that underscored the mutual attraction to certain ideas and subjects even when the photographers were separated by tens of decades and working with different technologies, and processes.
Submitted By : Referenced in the 2020 Essay “A Curatorial Perspective” by Ann Thomas
Necessary Force: Art in the Police State | Exhibition at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Addressing the systemic forces in our history and our society that continue to violate civil rights. The works in the exhibition addressed a range of issues, including police brutality, surveillance, and imprisonment, poverty, gun violence, racial profiling, as well as the power of collective protest and collective healing.
Submitted By : Referenced in the 2020 Essay “These are not recent events...” by Dr. Kymberly Pinder
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