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| 'Josephine Baker: Image and Icon' Exhibition  "Josephine Baker: Image and Icon" celebrates Baker's life during the 100th anniversary year of her birth. As an African American woman and international star, Baker broke barriers and set trends. Her contributions to Jazz Age music and dance, the French resistance during World War II and civil rights throughout the world are represented through vintage photographs, posters, drawings, prints and ephemera. The exhibition, which examines how Baker (1906-1975) reinvented her image throughout her lifetime, features nearly 100 objects drawn from several collections, including those of the National Portrait Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and private collections from Europe and the United States.The National Portrait Gallery is the only stop outside of St. Louis for the exhibition, which was organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, with Sheldon Arts Galleries director Olivia Lahs-Gonzales serving as curator. The exhibition opens Friday, Nov. 24 and will run through March 18, 2007. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |