Night at the Museums: Three the Hard Way
@ Logan Center
915 E 60th St Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 23rd
This exhibition takes its title from a 1974 blaxploitation classic in which three action heroes, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, and Jim Brown must save the race from a neo-Nazi organization bent on black genocide. The exhibition features the 2014/2015 Arts + Public Life/Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture artists-in-residence Ayana Contreras, James T. Green, and David Leggett, all squarely post-Civil Rights children born after Williamson, Kelly, and Brown saved the world. Although we may breathe a collective sigh of relief, the work of these artists suggests there is much to account for since then culturally, politically, and socially. How do we square nostalgia for a Black Nationalist period with events in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting?
Guest curated by Hamza Walker.
Presented by Arts and Public Life, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and Logan Center Exhibitions.
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