15-May-12Columbia Names El Museo del Barrio Chief Curator as Director of Wallach Art Gallery
Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia University’s executive vice president for arts and sciences and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced the appointment of Deborah Cullen, a leading curator and specialist in modern and contemporary art, as the new director and chief curator of the University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.
The evening will celebrate the release of the autobiography, Panther Baby, (Algonquin) with a conversation with the author, political activist Afeni Shakur, and Columbia faculty of political science and public affairs, Dorian Warren. IMPACT Repertory Theatre in Harlem will conclude the evening with a performance. Jamal Joseph, Film Faculty and the author of the illustrative biography Tupac Shakur Legacy (Atria, 2006) publishes a gripping memoir, Panther Baby. The book is an intimate account of Joseph’s coming of age within the Black Panther movement. His memoir recounts his compelling and illuminating personal odyssey.