Artnet

How Filmmaker Isaac Julien Brought the Late Alain Locke, the First African-American Rhodes Scholar, Back to Life

Isaac Julien has a history of working with the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance. So it makes sense that his latest commission, for Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, circled back on writer, philosopher ...
The New Yorker

The Man Who Led the Harlem Renaissance—and His Hidden Hungers

Alain Locke led a life of scrupulous refinement and slashing contradiction. Photographs flatter him: there he is, with his bright, taut prettiness, delicately clenching the muscles of his face.
The New York Times

Questioning the Place of Black Art in a White Man’s Collection

Isaac Julien’s installation at the Barnes Foundation highlights the museum’s African sculptures even as it questions the ethics of their acquisition. By Arthur Lubow PHILADELPHIA — Dazzled by the ...
Detroit Free Press

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker receives career award, rediscovers purpose as educator

Detroit artist Rashaun Rucker will receive the Alain Locke Recognition Award at the Detroit Institute of Arts on February 16th. “The joy is in the work,” said Detroit-based artist Rashaun Rucker. On ...
The New Yorker

A Black British Artist Asks, “What Was Africa to the Harlem Renaissance?”

Alain Locke is remembered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance largely for assembling “The New Negro,” a 1925 anthology that immortalized a small group of young writers—Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, ...