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January 6, 2022 by Susan Isaacs

‘Afro-American Images 1971’ exhibit is restaged by Delaware Art Museum in a museum mea culpa

“To write about the Black presence at the Delaware Art Museum is to recall the absence of curators, exhibitions, and artists,” says art historian and artist Simone Austin in the catalog for the re-staging of the exhibition ‘Afro-American Images 1971,’ now at the Delaware Museum. Our contributor Susan Isaacs gives the story of the current exhibition and its historical predecessor, and says, “The show is very important.”

August 18, 2017 by Roberta

Chicago-bound independent curator Marianne Bernstein on her projects in Philadelphia, Iceland and Sicily

On the cusp of her family’s move to Chicago, Marianne Bernstein talks with Roberta about her two international artist residency projects, Due North (in Iceland) and Due South (in Sicily). Bernstein has made friends and memories here and given lots of artists opportunities to exhibit in her projects. We hear Chicago has artists too, and we’ll be following Bernstein’s work with those artists in coming years. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview conducted via email. Look for Part 2 next week.