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GALLERY TALK: Slavery and the Myth of Benevolence through “Object Lessons”
June 17 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

with Tiarra Brown, Independent Scholar and Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Free with Museum Admission
Drawing on examples from the special exhibition, Object Lessons in American Art, this talk examines how American artist Titus Kaphar addresses the colonial attachments to slavery and the myth of benevolent slave masters. Uniting art-historical analysis with archival documents, the lecture traces the history of six African American slaves to a former president of Princeton University. The lecture will also explore Titus Kaphar as a contemporary African American artist and his artistic process of “torturing a painting” to embrace the physicality of the object as well as the violence the work ultimately projects.