Friday, November 5 at 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Join the BloomBars Gallery for a Gallery Talk with Art Collector Henry L. Thaggert
“Was Andy Warhol Black?
The Emergence of Black Figurative Artists in the 1960s
In the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s, Abstract Expressionism was the dominant style of art making, collected and promoted by elite art institutions in the United States.
Join collector and arts patron Henry L. Thaggert in a talk about how the rise of this important art movement served to exclude artists who were more concerned about identity, race and representation.
Henry L. Thaggert is a collector and arts patron. A resident of Washington, D.C., Mr. Thaggert has served on boards and committees of several arts institutions, including the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art and the Acquisitions Council at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He also has published essays and curated exhibitions on his art interests. In 2008, he co-curated an exhibition with Jeffry Cudlin of the Arlington Arts Center entitled She’s So Articulate: Black Female Artists Reclaim the Narrative. Mr. Thaggert graduated from Tulane University and the New York University Law School and Graduate School. He also studied law in Great Britain on a J. William Fulbright scholarship.
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