Harlem, Hollywood, Broadway: Celebrating Black History Month

Harlem, Hollywood, Broadway: Celebrating Black History Month

Over the course of his half-century professional career, photographer Jack Mitchell documented a unique history of artists in the fields of dance, theatre, music, the fine arts, film, and television. Mitchell would have turned 100 years old this year. In recognition of the centennial of this creative and historically significant photographer, GME now offers a series of readymade exhibitions throughout 2025 that showcase Mitchell’s iconic photographs. This Black History Month, we present Harlem, Hollywood, Broadway: African American Legends, which features 36 silver gelatin and color photographs of noteworthy African-American artists and performers that Mitchell took over the span of his five-decade career. This show first opened at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama in January 2020 and is currently available to galleries, museums, and other cultural institutions both in the U.S. and abroad.

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Naughty Films at the Library: Avant-Garde Works in the NYPL's Reserve Film and Video Collection

Naughty Films at the Library: Avant-Garde Works in the NYPL's Reserve Film and Video Collection

Thursday, September 19th, at 5:30pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Curator Jon Gartenberg, in collaboration with NYPL Film Collection Specialist Elena Rossi-Snook, will present a program of avant-garde films from the Library's Reserve Film and Video Collection that deals with sex and censorship. After the screening, Gartenberg and Rossi-Snook will discuss the history and interpretation of these rarely-screened works. This event is free to attend and can be RSVPed here.

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