Maurice Berger

rdf:langString Maurice Berger

rdf:langString Maurice Berger

rdf:langString Maurice Berger

rdf:langString Copake, New York, U.S.

rdf:langString New York City, U.S.

rdf:langString New York Times

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rdf:langString Nominee, Emmy Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter, 2011

rdf:langString Infinity Award, International Center of Photography, 2018, Critical Writing and Research: Race Stories

rdf:langString Best Thematic Exhibition in New York, 2008, International Association of Art Critics

rdf:langString Arts Writers Grant, 2014 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation

rdf:langString Best Exhibition in University Museum, 2010, Best Exhibition in US, 2008, Association of Art Museum Curators

rdf:langString Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010, Art and Architecture, American Library Association

rdf:langString Maurice Berger

rdf:langString Maurice Berger (May 22, 1956 – March 22, 2020) was an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States. He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between race and American art, including the critically acclaimed For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights co-organized in 2011 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which focused on the role visual imagery played in shaping, influencing, and transforming the modern struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States. On March 22, 2020, he fell ill and died in Copake, New York, from heart failure, exacerbated by untested complications of COVID-19. He was 63 years old.