We Wanted a Revolution – Rujeko Hockley with Kellie Jones, Lisa Jones, and Lorna Simpson

Panel Discussion: “Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But the Rent”: 1980s New York – Rujeko Hockley with Kellie Jones, Lisa Jones, and Lorna Simpson

This daylong symposium features four panels on black revolutionary art practices, including talks by artists in the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 and related scholars. Participants include Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley, co-curators of the exhibition; Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum; Aruna D’Souza, art historian and critic; Kellie Jones, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University; and Uri McMillan, Associate Professor of English at UCLA.

This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum
on Friday, April 21, 2017.