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Black Art: Treasures from the Schomburg

From May 12, 2007 through December 31, 2007
Latimer/Edison Gallery
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801 (directions)

Dance Composition
Dance Composition, 1976, by Eldzier Cortor

To help commemorate the Grand Opening of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's renovated facilities, this exhibition offers a sampling of the diverse forms of artistic expression and trends documented in the Center's collection. Part of a long and enduring tradition of art-making in the African world, these works eloquently attest to the fact that African peoples, like all members of the human family, have been actively and creatively involved in producing art of extraordinary beauty, meaning, and power, regardless of where and under what circumstances they have lived.