Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black and Puerto Rican teen-agers who gathered at the Triangle Building in Harlem were turned out in their Sunday best. "Man," said one of the girls to a friend, "you look like you're going to a wedding." The ceremony that the group had come to attend had an importance all its own. A short while ago, those ghetto youngsters had been dropouts from New York City schools; now they were about to graduate from the four-month-old "Academy of Transition," sponsored by Time Inc. Almost all of them were planning to move on to the Urban
...greater part of Harlem on My Mind, though, purposely depends on the subjectivity of the viewer. Allon Schoener Exhibition Coordinator, conceived the project as a kind of communications environment in which the participant is forced to choose between the many multimedia techniques that surround him. Films, tapes, music, and photos present a history of Harlem, but it is the viewer who is forced to integrate all the material into what, for him, will be the show's unique impression. It was a courageous move on the part of the museum. For very few of us, I would imagine, are comfortable...
...then there are the purely human moments which--white or black--would be a delight in any show. The most absorbing is a taped television interview with Mother Brown, born November 17, 1853, a Virginia slave, and now a Harlem resident. Her remarks on slavery, for example ("Sometimes people were nice t'ya, sometimes they weren't. Just like they are nowadays."), are representative, but only of a quite ordinary human being who, like us, is doing her best to comprehend the events through which we are all living. On the other end of the scale, there is a wonderful...
Given the enormous variety of experience which Harlem on My Mind offers, it is regrettable that it has met with so much misplaced criticism. In editorializing that Hoving is responsible for "Irrelevancy at the Museum," the New York Times is choosing comfort and convenience over difficult self-assessment. Their warning of January 22nd--that "the politicalization of art and all other forms of culture is a favorite device of dictatorship"--is ridiculously severe. Better they should deplore the pressures which led several New York City councilmen to threaten the end of the city's three-million-dollar allocation...
...vitality in Harlem in My Mind--both in form and content--is what at first appears so outrageous. As you walk up Fifth Avenue, it's quite shocking to see a huge sheet with "HARLEM" emblazoned on it draped over the entrance to the once staid Metropolitan--in fact, it looks as if the building has been seized...