Join us as we celebrate the opening of special exhibition “Something Over Something Else”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series and Black History Month with live music, food for purchase, specialty cocktails and docent-led tours throughout the night.
Join us as we celebrate the opening of special exhibition "Something Over Something Else": Romare Bearden's Profile Series and Black History Month with live music, food for purchase, specialty cocktails and docent-led tours throughout the night. #artafterdarkcincy
About special exhibition "Something Over Something Else": Romare Bearden's Profile Series on view February 28–May 24, 2020:
Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series reunites for the first time thirty vibrant collages from this renowned series. In 1977, a “Profile” of Bearden by Calvin Tomkins in the New Yorker provoked the artist to reflect upon his childhood and maturity during the 1920s and 30s. The result was a two-part series that traces his journey from rural Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to working-class Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and culminates with his treasured first studio in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood.
Yet transcending autobiography, Bearden’s Profile Series, accompanied by evocative texts co-written by Bearden and his friend the author Albert Murray, expresses a deep reverence for humanity and the struggles and triumphs of African Americans.
Image credit: Romare Bearden (1911–1988), United States, Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Johnny Hudgins Comes On, 1981, collage on board, Courtesy of Rick and Monica Segal. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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2020/02/28 - 2020/02/28
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Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202
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