Acts Of Art And Rebuttal In 1971 Exhibition Comes to Hunter College Art Galleries

Acts of Art and Rebuttal revisits the 1971 exhibition Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition: Black Artists in Rebuttal, which was organized by members of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition at Acts of Art, a small, artist-run gallery in Greenwich Village. The original exhibition was mounted in response to the Whitney Museum's refusal to appoint a Black curator for their survey Contemporary Black Artists in America.

The exhibition at Hunter presents ten of the 47 artists from the original Rebuttal show, including Benny Andrews, Betty Blayton-Taylor, Vivian Browne, James Denmark, Cliff Joseph, Richard Mayhew, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Haywood Bill Rivers, and Frank Wimberley.

Opening reception: October 4, 2018, 6-8pm

Hunter College Art Galleries
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

Conversations on Acts of Art and Rebuttal: Friday, October 5, 2018, 1-6 pm

Lang Recital Hall
Hunter North Building, 4th floor
Entrance south side of 69th st.
New York, NY 10065

Entrance on the south side of 69th Street between Park Ave. and Lexington Ave.

With artists James Denmark, Richard Mayhew, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, and Frank Wimberley, and art historian and filmmaker Oakley N. Holmes, Jr., in discussion with professors LeRonn Brooks, Lisa Corinne Davis, and Lisa Farrington.

For the full schedule, please visit: https://www.leubsdorfgallery.org/upcoming-events/