Title: Harlem on My Mind protest - Wikipedia
Headings: Harlem on My Mind protest
Harlem on My Mind protest
Contents
Background
Harlem on My Mind
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)
Defacement
List of defaced works
Responses
Official responses
Art criticism
Artists and activists
Further reading
References

Content: Portions of the essay can be found quoted within Bridget R. Cooks ' 2011 work Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press). Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)
The BECC was organized in January 1969 by a group of 75 African American artists in direct response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem on My Mind" exhibit. The co-chairmen at the time of creation were Benny Andrews, Henri Ghent, and Edward Taylor. Defacement
" Christ with a Staff ," by an unknown follower of Rembrandt. Third quarter, 17th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. On January 16, 1969, ten paintings were defaced in response to the Harlem on My Mind exhibit. Small "H's" (as large as five inches tall) were scratched mostly into varnish covering the paintings, but in one case, into the actual pigments. None went through the canvases, and all paintings were successfully repaired.