At the center of “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” a revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stands a majestic artifact: a stoneware storage jar t...Read More
Poetic jars by David Drake are setting records at auction and starring in art museums, showcasing the artistry of enslaved African Americans. Click here to read more....Read More
On June 5, 2022, our partner Slavicult group at Yale organized a roundtable in Fontainebleau in collaboration with the Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’Esclavage to discuss the historical relation be...Read More
ABSTRACT: Over the course of the 1820s, as British slaveholders were drawn increasingly into a bitter and contested debate about the future of slavery, the nation’s art institutions were thri...Read More