Imaging the black male - exhibit of art reflecting African American masculinity, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Painter Robert Colescott "is not afraid to play with stereotypical imagery in his painting as a way to critique it," says Whitney Museum of American Art curator Thelma of gold Colescott's "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware" is among the more than 100 works appearing in the exhibition "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" at the Whitney Museum.

"Black Male" chronicles the changing perceptions of African-American masculinity as interpreted by dint of 25 artists of the 1970 '80 and '90 including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dawn DeDeaux, Leon Golub Glenn Ligon, Adrian Piper, Andres Serrano, Gary Simmons, Carrie Mae Weems and Pat Ward Williams.

The matter is also explored end music videos, independent and mainstream films, and videos and commercial television programs. Perspectives upon these images are offered by means of Herman Gray of the University of California, Santa Cruz; the University of Delaware's ed Guerrero (author of Framing Blackness); Valerie Smith of the University of California, observes Angeles; and Clyde Taylor, a bunchs University film and aesthetics scholar.

"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" is upon view November 10 to March 5 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in novel York City.

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