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Art News: Historic Archive Documenting Black Life Has a New Home

By David Schonauer   Thursday July 9, 2026

The Memphis Art Museum will open its new flagship building later this year with the special exhibition “Making Beauty: Hooks Brothers Studio, 1907-1984,” focusing on the eponymous Black-owned photography studio that documented life in the city’s African American community during much of the 20th century. In 1979, a fire …

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