Redaction: Revisiting the Sweet Flypaper of Life with Titus Kaphar, Dwayne Betts, and Bridget Cooks

A discussion with artist Titus Kaphar, poet Dwayne Betts, and art historian Bridget Cooks, in celebration of Kaphar and Betts’s new book, “Redaction,” and in light of artist Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes’s “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” (1955).
For more on Kaphar and to learn more about “Redaction,” visit https://www.kapharstudio.com
For more on Betts, visit: https://www.dwaynebetts.com
For more on Cooks, visit: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5353
For more on the Langston Hughes archive, visit: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/langston-hughes…
This event will take place in person on the Beinecke Library mezzanine. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Beinecke Library exhibition hall is free and open to all daily. For more about the library, its exhbitions and collections, and about visiting or doing research, visit: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu