Since its inception, I have been thinking to see Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series at MoMA.
But I put it off and forgot all about it until I was reminder by Edwidge Danticat’s recent article
in the New Yorker. The exhibition is brilliant. Just walking into the rooms,
absorbing Lawrence’s art, reading poems by the likes of Langston Hughes, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and watching
Billie Holiday, in a little dark room with fat ottoman chairs,
perform Strange Fruit was pretty cool. In a hallway the
blues bellowed soft, sad, sweet, and hopeful.
But the exhibition does not end at MoMA, it continues online.
This is one exhibition one ought to see. It has a lot to say about human nature and
about a particular group of people, in their fight to be treated as human beings.
The exhibition closes September 7, 2015.
If you see it and want to share your experience, I am eager to hear it. Thank you.
—
Jane
