This week’s archival selections consider the lengths that many creatives go to make or preserve history. After exploring our favorites at the link in our bio, let us know your thoughts in the comments. What is the most courageous or daring act you have performed for your art?
Meet the artist and stylist, Akeem Smith, who is working to build an archive of Jamaican Dancehall through his debut solo exhibition, “No Gyal Can Test,” on display at Red Bull Arts New York from September 24 until November 15, 2020.
Image Credit: © Nick Sethi
Learn about the life and triumphs of African-American opera singer, Mariam Anderson, who made history with her performance at the Lincoln Memorial after being turned away from many white-only spaces during the formation of her career in the mid-20th century.
Image Credit: © JSTOR
Discover the work the Getty institution is performing to preserve 11 million images from the Bettmann Archive on ice within a limestone mine near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Image Credit: © Otto Bettmann