The Cooper Union

A panel, moderated by Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, discussed the place of Roy DeCarava’s A'40 oeuvre in American art with a special focus on the much-anticipated republication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life. This volume, which DeCarava created with the poet Langston Hughes in 1955, has been out of print for over thirty years. Panelists included writer and critic A.D. Coleman; Radiclani Clytus, independent filmmaker; Leslie Hewitt A'00, Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union School of Art; John Stauffer, the Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and African & African American Studies at Harvard; and photographer Hope Wurmfeld. Recorded live in the Great Hall of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on October 29, 2018.