# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx7o0BClvUp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044656-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-05-26T16:06:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

"As If: Alternative Histories From Then To Now" is on view in our Lab Gallery and Corridor. Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm | Thurs 12pm-8pm. The exhibition includes works in multiple mediums that offer examples of how we might reimagine historical narratives in order to contend with the traumas of contemporary life.
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Harold, a talented African-American scientist, travels through time to prevent the development of the slave trade. Present-day America becomes New Songhay, a thriving diasporic African nation settled by the Songhay Empire. [can also be spelled Songhai]
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#AlternativeHistories giampaolobianconi
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Image: John Jakes, “Black in Time,” 1988, Published by Bart Books, New York, Cover artist uncredited, Printed book, Private Collection

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