Left of Black to Feature Exhibit 'Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection'

Left of Black to Feature Exhibit Becoming: Photographs from the WedgeCollection
On the October 17th episode of Left of Black, Dr. Kenneth Montague, a Toronto-based dentist and the curator of Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, joins  host Mark Anthony Neal at the Nasher Museum in Durham, Carolina. TheWindsor, Ontario born Montague has collected contemporary art since the 1990s,and was influenced by African American culture from across the Detroit River. Nealand Montague discuss some of the featured artists in the collection includingJamel Shabazz, Carrie Mae Weems, Malick Sidibé, and James VanDerZee, and theimportance of collecting Black Art.
Laterin the episode, Neal is joined via Skype© by Columbia University Art Historian Kellie Jones, author of the new book Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art .   Neal andJones discuss her famous parents, HettieJones and Amiri Baraka, and herwork as curator of the new exhibit, Now Digthis! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
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Leftof Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on Duke's Ustream channel: ustream.tv/dukeuniversity.Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal andfeatured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or#dukelive. 
Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and InterdisciplinaryStudies at Duke University.
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FollowLeft of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlackFollowMark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackManFollowKellie Jones on Twitter: @DrKellieJonesFollowThe Wedge Collection: @Wedge_Toronto
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