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July 21, 2021 by
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s laudatory shows of Chicanx art and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt’s legacy

Susan Isaacs visits the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and is impressed by two socially concerned exhibitions: “”¡Printing the Revolution!”(on view through August 8, 2021) and “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States” (now closed; online materials available).

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January 12, 2021 by and
Contemporary art mingles with vintage party dresses at Towson University’s ‘All Night Party’

Co-curators J. Susan Isaacs and Erin Lehman write an essay about their exhibition “All Night Party,” which places contemporary works in conversation with 20th century party dresses, drawing similarities between America’s political climate then and now.

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December 9, 2015 by
Christian McBride explores civil rights in ‘The Movement Revisited’

In The Movement Revisited, many of the great speeches throughout the Civil Rights Movement were used including those by Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali. The orations were mostly given in the introduction of the piece before the music expressed the emotion of the words spoken.

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A black and white comic, called “Dead Pixel,” shows a Manga-influenced story with a green monster that represents the dead pixel that can appear on a computer screen.
 
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