Event Details
Date & Time:
Wed April 3, 2019
7 PM
Location:
The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
These two stunningly-realized works by British filmmaker Isaac Julien are his most direct explorations of black queer identity. Looking for Langston mixes archival material with stylized dramatic scenes to create a dreamlike essay film about the Harlem Renaissance that foregrounds the gay identities of several of the writers of the time, most significantly Langston Hughes. In the short The Attendant, a black museum guard’s fantasies combine fetishism, opera, and a camp sensibility as a painting of a slave and his white master becomes a living tableaux.
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu
