Turn the Volume Up! at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University highlights the activism of everyday people who have confronted injustice. New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, quoting the Bronx rapper KRS-One’s song Turn the Volume Up during his election-day victory speech inspired the name of the exhibit. Featuring work by artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and the Guerrilla Girls, the show examines how protests and collective action can create and inspire social change. Turn the Volume Up! opens on 27 August and runs through 11 July 2027
‘Jim Crow must go’: the artists and everyday heroes who fought injustice – in pictures
Turn the Volume Up! at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University highlights the activism of everyday people who have confronted injustice. New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, quoting the Bronx rapper KRS-One’s song Turn the Volume Up...
Featuring work by artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and the Guerrilla Girls, the show examines how protests and collective action can create and inspire social change. opens on 27 August and runs through 11 July 2027 Kara Walker, Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta from the portfolio Harper’s Pictorial History of...
- opens on 27 August and runs through 11 July 2027 Kara Walker, Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta from the portfolio Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil...
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Kara Walker, Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta from the portfolio Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005
Bruce Davidson, Time of Change, 1962
Ralph Gibson, American Gothic from the portfolio America: Now and Here, 2009
Bruce Davidson, Time of Change, 1963-1965
Peter Williams, Incarnation, 2019
Kara Walker, Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights from the portfolio Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) , 2005
Reggie Burrows Hodges, Community Appreciation: Orchestra, 2020
Carol Summers, Kill for Peace from the portfolio Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1967
Spider Martin, Dr King Speaks to the Crowd of 25,000 people at the March’s End, 1965
Lyle Ashton Harris, Blow Up II (Armory), Detail from the portfolio America: Now and Here, 2005 (printed 2009)
Bruce Davidson, Time of Change, 1963
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