{"id":85778,"date":"2025-12-16T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85778\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:04:07","slug":"dawoud-bey-comes-to-orlando-museum-of-art-to-talk-about-his-evergreen-video-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85778\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawoud Bey comes to Orlando Museum of Art to talk about his &#8216;Evergreen&#8217; video works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"586\" data-attachment-id=\"406602\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/arts\/dawoud-bey-comes-to-orlando-museum-of-art-to-talk-about-his-evergreen-video-works\/attachment\/dawoud-bey-courtesy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dawoud-Bey-Courtesy.png?fit=1320%2C991&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1320,991\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dawoud Bey Courtesy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dawoud-Bey-Courtesy.png?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dawoud-Bey-Courtesy.png?fit=780%2C586&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dawoud-Bey-Courtesy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406602\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Artist Dawoud Bey Credit: image courtesy OMA<\/p>\n<p>In the final weeks of Dawoud Bey\u2019s Evergreen film installation at Orlando Museum of Art, the artist comes to Orlando to talk about his work for a not-to-be-missed afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Bey converses with OMA curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon on themes of \u201cLandscape, History, and Memory.\u201d The free artist talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/omart.org\/events\/access_for_all_oma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Access for All Day<\/a> also includes a poetry performance from Justin Lang.<\/p>\n<p>Bey\u2019s Evergreen is a triptych video installation of haunting footage Bey filmed on the Evergreen Plantation of Wallace, Louisiana. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvergreen is the most undisturbed plantation landscape in the country,\u201d Bey told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/entertainment_life\/dawoud-beys-ghosts-of-the-plantation-south-show-that-history-explains-everything\/article_5b92cd40-6425-11ec-8df2-a32b7f8c629b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nola.com<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a presence that you feel when you\u2019re at Evergreen that is undeniable. There is a spirit that clings to that site more heavily than any of the other sites.\u201d He\u2019ll tell you more this week, surely.<\/p>\n<p>2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., <a href=\"http:\/\/omart.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">omart.org,<\/a> free. <\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s daily dose of what matters. Subscribe to The Daily Weekly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/collections\/dec-17-23-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 17-23, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist Dawoud Bey Credit: image courtesy OMA In the final weeks of Dawoud Bey\u2019s Evergreen film installation at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[46914,279,139,24234,141,30327,140],"class_list":["post-85778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-dawoud-bey","tag-evergreen","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-event","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-museum-of-art","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}