Media | Bridget R. Cooks

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Harlem Is Everywhere

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UCI Podcast: Bridget R. Cooks takes us inside the Met

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The Roots of the Harlem Renaissance—and Its Power Today

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Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson and Trevor Paglen about Bryan-Wilson's book Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face

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Big Ideas Series: Bridget R. Cooks on Feeling at the Clyfford Still Museum

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UCI Alumni Association, “Lunch with ‘Eaters: A Lens into Black Visual Culture featuring Bridget R. Cooks ‘93", August 12, 2020

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Sydney Charles and Tatus Larsen, “The Welcome Table: Bridget R. Cooks” The Welcome Table with Sydney and Tatum. UCI: School of Humanities. November 20, 2020.

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Pat Harriman, “The Cultural Significance of Visual Representation,” UCI Podcast, UCI News, August 19, 2020.

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Katy Hessel, “Bridget R. Cooks on Alma Thomas,” The Great Women Artists. Episode 37. Released August 12, 2020.

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The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons

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Featured Contributor, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. [Film], Dir: Thomas Allen Harris. (2013). NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Documentary (2015); African Movie Academy Award for Best Diasporic (2014).

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Featured Contributor, Chipping Away: The Life and Legacy of Sculpture William Edmondson. [Film], Dir: Mark Schlicher. (2017).

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“Ernie Barnes Retrospective,” L.A. This Week, June 10, 2019.

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Pablo Chaco, Jr. and Gayle Anderson “Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective,” June 26, 2019. KTLA 5 Los Angeles.

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James Taylor, “Making Art More Inclusive: Museums Work to Address Diversity in Galleries,” February 19, 2021. CBS Sacramento for national broadcast on CBS affiliates.

Julian Guthrie, “Art of Richard Mayhew at MoAD” SF Gate, October 16, 2009.

The Art of Richard Mayhew

Geneva Anderson, “Meet Richard Mayhew—Master of Electric, Eclectic, Majestic Abstraction at MoAD,” Art Hound, March 1, 2010.

The Art of Richard Mayhew

Christopher Knight, “Grafton Tyler Brown’s California Scenes at Pasadena Museum’s Final Show,” Los Angeles Times (Online), June 30, 2018.

Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California

Sentinel News Service, “The California African American Museum Presents Exhibition on the Life and Art of Ernie Barnes,” Los Angeles Sentinel, March 14, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Katherine Keener, “Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective Opens Today at the California African American Museum,” Art Critique, May 8, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: How Athlete-Artist Ernie Barnes Captured Black Culture’s ‘Joy and Communal Dignity,” The Hollywood Reporter. May 10, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Ayanna Nicole, “Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective: New Exhibit at the CAAM,” Jaro, May 14, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

“Ernie Barnes at CAAM,” LACMA on Fire Blogspot, May 13, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Siran Babayan, “Ernie Barnes: An Artist and a Sportsman,” L.A. Weekly. May 23, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Chandra Noyes, “The Lineman with a Paintbrush: Ernie Barnes Paints America,” Art and Object. May 23, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Nadja Sayej. (June 27, 2019 Thursday). “Ernie Barnes: the overlooked legacy of the athlete turned celebrity artist; The work of the football player who became a painter is finally being celebrated, from his Olympics artwork to his Marvin Gaye album cover.” The Guardian, London).

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Colony Little, “Ernie Barnes’s Iconic Chronicle of His Southern Roots and Sports,” Hyperallergic. July 4, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Makeda Easter, “Ernie Barnes’ Sugar Shack: Why Museum-goers Line Up to See Ex-NFL Player’s Painting,” Los Angeles Times (Online), August 28, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Makeda Easter, “Sweetest Spot in Town: Ernie Barnes’ The Sugar Shack Has Had a Remarkable Journey to Selfie Glory,” Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2019: E3.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Victoria L. Valentine, “Curator Bridget R. Cooks Explains How the Ernie Barnes Retrospective Landed at the California African American Museum,” Culture Type, September 1, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Victoria L. Valentine, “Ernie Barnes Retrospective Brings Renewed Attention to African American Artist Who Found Fame After Playing Pro Football,” Culture Type, September 6, 2019.

Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective

Shana Nys Dambrot, “The Black Index and the Agency of Representation” L.A. Weekly. February 11, 2021.

The Black Index

Allison Conner, “Six Black Artists Test the Limits of Portraiture” Hyperallergic. February 19, 2021

The Black Index

Lilly Nguyen, “’We exist in other ways…to see us, to find us’—UC Irvine debuts ‘The Black Index’ Exhibition” Daily Pilot. January 16, 2021

The Black Index

Sheryl Nonnenberg, “With ‘The Black Index,’ Palo Alto Art Center Explores Representation.” Palo Alto Online, July 6, 2021.

The Black Index

Aruna D’Souza, “The Black Index,” 4Columns, February 25, 2022.

The Black Index

Anya Ventura, “Seeing Blackness,” Getty, February 25, 2021.

The Black Index

Folasade Ologundudu, “‘Approach Every Black Artist as a World-Maker’: Art Historian Bridget R. Cooks on the Need for an Expansive Definition of Blackness,” Artnet News, February 24, 2021.

The Black Index

Erin Keever, “‘The Black Index’ Upends the Impulse for Classification,” Sightlines, October 16, 2021.

The Black Index

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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism: A Creative Convening

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Wesley Morris, "‘The Melt Goes On Forever’ Review: David Hammons Makes, and They Take," The New York Times, May 4, 2023.

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Stephanie Cash, “Bridget Cooks on Exhibiting Blackness” and Art Museums. March 2017. Burnaway.

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Anya Ventura, “Seeing Blackness: Curator and Scholar Bridget R. Cooks on Art and Representation,” Getty Iris. February 25, 2021.

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Folasade Ologundudu, “Approach Every Black Artist as a World-Maker”: Art Historian Bridget R. Cooks on the Need for an Expansive Definition of Blackness,” Artnet, February 24, 2021.

J.M. Yaumans, “Cooks, Bridget R.: Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum” CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 49, no. 10 (2012).

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Lauren Taylor, “Ambivalence on Display: Bridget Cooks. Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum,” Art Journal (New York. 1960). Routledge, 2014.

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Reference & Research Book News, “Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum,” Book News, Inc., 2012.

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Jamie L. Green, “Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Book Review).” Journal of African American History. The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, 2013.

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Jeramy DeCristo, “Black Critical and Cultural Theory.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 25, no. 1 (2017): 316–333.

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Julia Bryan-Wilson, “NO TIME TO WAIT.” Artforum International 54, no. 10 (2016): 113–114.

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Blackwood, Sarah, “‘Seeing Black: Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery; Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum; Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle; Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity,” American Quarterly. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Meri Bauer and Michael Antonucci, “Review: Exhibiting Blackness.” The Black Scholar 42, no. 2 (2012): 61–62.

Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011; reprint 2012).

Installation view of The Black Index

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