“I remember when I first saw this series on view in our Ancient Egyptian art galleries, I was
“I remember when I first saw this series on view in our Ancient Egyptian art galleries, I was so struck with iconic conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady’s own archive of herself and her sister Devona to the likeness of Nefertiti, the ultimate Egyptian queen and her sister. I’ve always been interested in Blackness and its permanence—how we continue to build culture, art, legacy, excellence, and innovation, especially when that history is often whitewashed or silenced. One of the things I love about working at the Brooklyn Museum is the ability to have so many cross-collection dialogues, which can be hard at larger encyclopedic museums. The fact that this contemporary work was installed near a work like Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta from the New Kingdom, which we sometimes lovingly refer to as Beyonce and JAY-Z, is EVERYTHING." Posted by Lindsay C. HarrisLorraine O'Grady (American, 1934). Miscegenated Family Album, 1994. Silver dye bleach photograph (Cibachrome). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by John and Barbara Vogelstein and Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons and bequest of Richard J. Kempe, by exchange, 2008.80. © Lorraine O'Grady (Photo: Image courtesy of Gracie Mansion Gallery) | Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta, ca. 1400-1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 40.523. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum) -- source link
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