Maurice Berger
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Maurice Berger (May 22, 1956 – March 22, 2020) was an American
He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between
On March 22, 2020, he fell ill and died in Copake, New York, from heart failure, exacerbated by untested complications of COVID-19. He was 63 years old.
Biography
Berger grew up poor in a predominantly black and
In the mid-1980s he was an assistant professor of art and gallery director at Hunter College.
In 2011, he served as curator of "For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights at the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution. According to
Publications
Berger wrote the monthly Race Stories column, "a continuing exploration of the relationship of race to photographic portrayals of race", for the Lens Section of the
Exhibitions
Berger's exhibitions on race and culture included retrospectives of the artists Adrian Piper (1999)
In 2015, Berger designed and curated an exhibition titled Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television in dedication to how the emergence of stylistic avant-garde art from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s influenced the role of television as an entertainment medium and vice versa.
Media projects
From the mid-1990s on Berger produced cinematic “culture stories,” syncopated compilations of historic clips from American film and television that explore issues of identity and self-representation. His film Threshold was featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.[29] The film was inspired by his conversations with Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran about their ideas for Bleed, their residency for the biennial. Threshold is a continuum of images from popular culture produced during the period of or about the historic civil rights movement. Critic Ben Ratliff, writing in the New York Times, observed that " Threshold strung together clips from movies and television shows of African-Americans beginning various journeys, passages or challenges: Diana Ross and Michael Jackson on the yellow brick road in “The Wiz”; dancers on “Soul Train”; Denzel Washington as Malcolm X stepping up to a podium. The mood of that film carried through the whole week: moving forward, crossing lines, evolving."[30]
Awards and honors
For his Race Stories column for the Lens Section of the New York Times, Berger was the recipient of the 2018
In 1993, Berger was appointed as the inaugural Fellow at the
Death
Berger died due to presumed complications from COVID-19 on March 22, 2020. He was 63.[36][37]
References
- ^ "Berger, Maurice 1956- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
- ^ a b Genzlinger, Neil (26 March 2020). "Maurice Berger, Curator Outspoken About Race, is Dead at 63". The New York Times.
- ^ For All the World To See: Website
- ^ Images That Steered a Drive for Freedom Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 May 2010, p. E1
- ^ For All the World To See Explores the Impact of Visual Culture of the 1960s, Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post, 9 June 2011
- ^ The Power of Imagery in Advancing Civil Rights Archived 2016-08-22 at the Wayback Machine, Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian Magazine, October 2011
- ^ a b "Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege"
- ^ a b "Using Photography to Tell Stories About Race"
- ^ Ibid
- ^ "Art Art Museums Racist?, Maurice Berger, excerpt from Art in America, September 1990 Archived 2015-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Goings on About Town
- ^ Lens Blog: Race Stories by Maurice Berger, New York Times, July 2012-present
- ^ Lens Blog: Race Stories by Maurice Berger, New York Times, July 2012-present
- ^ Race in Cyberspace?, Maurice Berger, Wired, 1 December 1995,
- ^ Look in the Mirror for Racial Attitudes, Maurice Berger, Los Angeles Times, 26 February 1999, p. 7
- ^ "White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness"
- ^ A Canvas of Concerns: Race, Racism and Class, Holland Cotter, New York Times, 24 December 1999
- ^ Pumping Air Into the Museum, So It's as Big as the World OutsideHolland Cotter, New York Times, 30 April 2004
- ^ Playing on Black and White: Racial Messages Through a Camera Lens, Margo Jefferson, New York Times, 10 January 2005
- ^ Rivalry Played Out on Canvas and Page, Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2008
- ^ Looking Back at Black Male, Whitney Museum of American Art, 20 January 2015
- ^ Some Curators Find Treasures In Palaces: Others Head for eBay, Wall Street Journal, 29 September 1999
- ^ a b "The Jewish Museum - Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television Presented at the Jewish Museum in New York May 1, 2015 – September 27, 2015". thejewishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ "Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television". NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ "Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television". Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ "Revolution of the Eye | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ "Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television – Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art". Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ "Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television - UMBC". revolutionoftheeye.umbc.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ Bleed: Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran on Whitney Museum Website Archived 2013-02-03 at the Wayback Machine,
- ^ Art, Ancestry, Africa: Letting It All Bleed, Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 14 May 2012
- ^ Arts Writers Grantee: Maurice Berger, December 2014
- ^ 2018 ICP Infinity Award | Maurice Berger, February 2018
- ^ NY Emmy Award Page/Click on Nominees for PDF, Emmy Awards, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter, 2011
- ^ "For All the World to See". Yale.edu. Yale University Press. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ^ "For All the World to See". UMBC.edu. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
- ^ "Maurice Berger, 63, curator who explored race, dies of presumed COVID-19 complications". Los Angeles Times. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ The Jewish Museum Remembers Maurice Berger (1956–2020)
External links
- Maurice Berger at IMDb
- Maurice Berger on The Vera List Center for Art and Politics