Reframing Gordon Parks and James Baldwin

Center for Black Visual Culture.

by Coley Gray, BmoreArt.

The paths of Gordon Parks and James Baldwin regularly crisscrossed over the course of their lives. Despite differing artistic sensibilities and spheres of influence, Parks and Baldwin shared the same, staunch commitments to the civil rights struggle, using art in service of social justice, and deploying their gifts to reflect the Black American experience in all its diversity. Exhibits at The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery offer a new conversation between two iconic artists and activists.

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