Make It New, Again: Collecting History with David E. Little

Join MIA curator David E. Little for a conversation about the photography exhibition, “Make It New, Again: Collecting History.”

See:

• The Midwest premiere of William Kentridge’s innovative video, Second-hand Reading, the artist’s personal and poetic exploration South Africa’s troubled history of apartheid.

• Over 30 new photographs acquired over the past six years, presented in dialogue with historic masterworks from the MIA’s Photography and New Media collection.

• A special installation of one of the 20th century’s most unforgettable photographs, Margaret Bourke-White’s The Living Dead at Buchenwald, photographed when Bourke-White accompanied General George S. Patton and the Third Army into the first concentration camp documented by the Americans. This image is from the artist’s personal archive.

Featured artists include Anna Atkins, Marco Breuer, Cy DeCosse, Stan Douglas, Robert Frank, Rico Gatson, Gyorgy Kepes, Heinrich Kuehn, Sally Mann, Simon Norfolk, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Greta Pratt, Irving Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Penelope Umbrico, and James Welling.