Curator Tour Michael Richards: Are You Down?
Join curators Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin for a drop-in tour of the retrospective Michael Richards: Are You Down?. They will discuss Michael Richards’s visionary artworks, highlighting his incisive sculpture and drawing practice as well as themes he engaged throughout his body of work including Blackness, flight, diaspora, spirituality, police brutality, and monuments. Levin and Fialho will also speak to collaborating with Richards’s family and friends to honor his life and legacy and to continue to share his artwork. Richards’s cousin Dawn Dale, longtime steward of his estate, will also be present for the event.
The tour will begin in the Museum’s lobby. RSVP is not required, walk-ins welcome.
Image: Installation view of Michael Richards: Are You Down?. Photograph by Argenis Apolinario.
