The Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art — Attraction in Cambridge

I attended Dell Hamilton’s curatorial tour today of the "Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory" exhibit. It was a spirited and informative presentation. Before the tour I’d started to view this outstanding selection of photographs and multi-media art by some exceptional artists and as much as I was struck by the art I wanted to know more about the pieces, and the context and motivation by the artist.

It was a gift to have Ms. Hamilton answer these questions and more. She did a fine job opening up the work to me and I came away thrilled by the exhibit and am planning to return before the exhibit leaves end of next month.

So thank you, Ms. Hamilton, for your engaging and thorough presentation and my gratitude also goes to the curators of this soulfully satisfying exhibit.

I also intend to spread the word about this great gallery right in the middle of Harvard Square that doesn’t seem to get the kind of attention...

There are few museums that make you feel real emotion. This gallery does that by pushing our perceptions of race and challenging our comfort zones. They dabble in all areas of art from music and dance, the photography and digital art. These different forms of art play to a wide variety of tastes and expectations. The Cooper Gallery is a refreshing look at what a museum can and should be. Worth going back to check out the...

Kudos for curating an exhibition of Black political art with the temporal depth to connect the battle against racism across generations to our current national context.

In addition the exhibit shows the global colonial economic basis for racism with pieces connecting the fight for liberation from colonialism in Asia to Black...