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October 2, 2012
Kellie Jones, ed. Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 Exh. cat. Los Angeles and New York: Hammer Museum and Prestel, 2011. 352 pp.; 285 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9783791351360)

Exhibition schedule: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, October 2, 2011–January 8, 2012

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Franklin Sirmans, Glenn Ligon, Robert Hobbs, and Michele Wallace 30 Americans Exh. cat. 2nd ed. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2011. 223 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780982119556)

Exhibition schedule: since its first iteration in 2008, 30 Americans has since traveled to several major institutions, the latest of which was the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, March 16–July 15, 2012

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2012.109

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Melvin Edwards The Lifted X (1965). Steel. 65 x 45 x 22 in. (165.1 x 114.3 x 55.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York.

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South Los Angeles. August 1972. A crowd of 100,000 spectators fills the Los Angeles Coliseum to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Watts uprisings. Jesse Jackson delivers a rousing invocation, inciting the crowd to raise their fists in solidarity. The occasion: Wattstax Music Festival, the black analogue to Woodstock. Footage from this event went largely unnoticed until the 2004 re-release of Wattstax, Mel Stuart’s 1973 documentary of the landmark concert. A mash-up of interviews...