Please join us for a talk hosted by the Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS). Professor Darby English will give a talk, titled, “To Be Seen and Not Known"

Professor Darby English is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is associate faculty in both the University’s Department of Visual Arts and its Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. From 2014 to 2020, English was Adjunct Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. English’s projects at MoMA concerned collection and acquisitions research, culminating in Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, conceived and co-edited with Charlotte Barat.

English’s teaching and advising address subjects in cultural studies as well as modern and contemporary American and European art produced since the First World War. His current research centers on Noah Purifoy (1917-2004), whose manifold commitment to “De-Mystify the Art Process” took shape during the August 1965 Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles. Find his detailed biography here.

This talk will take place on Tuesday, February 13 from 4.30-6.00pm in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Conference Room in Building 360. 

This talk is part of the Black Studies of the Arts (Open Rank) Faculty Search. Each event in the series features a 50-minute talk followed by 30 minutes of discussion.