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Spiral and the '60s

The Studio Museum in Harlem looks back at a New York art group

Comments (0) By Martha Schwendener Wednesday, Jul 27 2011
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Romare Bearden's Conjure Woman, 1964
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Romare Bearden's Conjure Woman, 1964
Emma Amos's Godzilla, 1966
Courtesy the artist, © Emma Amos
Emma Amos's Godzilla, 1966

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'Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective'
The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street212-864-4500, studiomuseum.org
Through October 23

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The current exhibition started off at the Birmingham Museum of Art and has been modified to include works from the Studio Museum's collection. Still, it feels provisional. And this is embarrassing. Unbelievably, there's no Spiral entry on Oxford Art Online—or even Wikipedia. "Radical" art historians can't get enough '60s European political theory (Debord, Althusser, or Marcuse). Meanwhile, insurgencies were erupting everywhere on our own continent in the '60s. Like down on Canal Street.

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