The Postmillenial Black Madonna @ MoCADA

via Visual AIDS >blog, 2/21/07 :

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts MoCADA 
PRESENTS:

THE POSTMILLENNIAL BLACK MADONNA AN EXHIBITION IN TWO PARTS:
PARADISE INFERNO 
Curated by Danny Simmons and Brian Tate
Presented by Renee Cox and Wangechi Mutu

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, New York 11217

Opening reception:

FEBRUARY 22, 2007
6:00PM - 9:00PM
www.mocada.org

If it is the artist's role to trouble the comfortable and comfort the troubled, then the Black Madonna may be considered the artist's patron saint. She is a beacon of the defenseless and the defiant, the cast-aside and the changed. As our century speeds ahead, The Postmillenial Black Madonna Exhibition will give new focus to the troublemakers and the troubled- and their defender, the mesmerizing Triple Goddess of Creation, Preservation and Destruction, who promises that beyond the Inferno waits Paradise, and beneath Paradise burns the Inferno.