展示奴隸制和代表黑人生活——藝術博物館 & 荷蘭奴隸貿易的遺產

This is the first session of “Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures,” presented by the  Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, 波士頓, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture. This four-part program explores efforts by art museums to deploy their spaces and their collections—which are often enmeshed with colonialism and exploitation—to present more complete narratives of and perspectives on slavery and its legacies.

Curators discuss their work on groundbreaking projects in the Netherlands and the United States, namely the Rijksmuseum’s “Slavery” exhibition, the Rembrandthuis Museum’s exhibition “Here: Black in Rembrandt’s Time,” the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s reinstallation of its permanent collection, and the Museums Are Not Neutral initiative. The speakers reflect on the broader call for museums to recognize the relationship of their collections to slavery and to present-day racial injustice.

SPEAKERS:
+ “The Rijksmuseum and Slavery” with Maria Holtrop, Curator of History, Rijksmuseum;
+ “Black Presence in 17th-Century Western Art” with Stephanie Archangel, Junior Curator, History Department, Rijksmuseum;
+ “Reflections on Re-envisioning LACMA’s Permanent Collection” with Diva Zumaya, Assistant Curator, European Painting and Sculpture, 洛杉磯縣藝術博物館;
+ “Possibilities of Imagining Otherwise” with La Tanya S. Autry, cultural organizer, co-producer of Museums Are Not Neutral, founder of the Black Liberation Center, and independent curator;
+ Welcome by Christopher Atkins, Van Otterloo-Weatherbie 導演, 荷蘭藝術中心, 美術博物館, 波士頓;
+ Introductions/Moderator: Sarah Mallory, Ph.D. 候選人, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University.

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK:

+ Watch the full series of videos from “Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures:” https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjiqsPexHHIKNBxGh49Rs8Ug8XQLTfGiC.

+ 倫勃朗·範·萊恩, “Two African Men ,” 1661. Oil on canvas. 莫瑞泰斯, The Hague, 685: https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/artworks/two-african-men-685/detailgegevens/.

+ Exhibition—“Slavery” at the Rijksmuseum, 阿姆斯特丹: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/slavery.

+ Exhibition—“Black in Rembrandt’s Time” at the Rembrandt House Museum, 阿姆斯特丹: https://bit.ly/3zUFJRX.

+ Article—“This Will Show Your Lordship What a Woman Can Do: Artemisia’s Rediscovered Cleopatra,” by Diva Zumaya, 拉克瑪: https://bit.ly/3xfN7pb.

+ Exhibition—“Imagine Otherwise” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland: https://mocacleveland.org/exhibitions/imagine-otherwise.

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Recorded April 9, 2021. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.