Adrienne Childs

Indepedent Scholar

10/09/2019 - 11/06/2019

Adrienne L. Childs is an independent art historian and curator, and an associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is the guest curator of "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Philips Collection, 2020." Her book project is "Ornamental Blackness: The Black Body in European Decorative Arts." At the Clark she will join Christa Clark to develop the exhibition "Black Baroque: Exuberant Presence in Contemporary Art" that considers black artists who reference the art of the long Baroque period as well as manifest affinities with the baroque as a style, idea, or sensibility.