Maurice Berger

Quick Facts

Full Name	Maurice Berger
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	May 22, 1956(1956-05-22)
Age	68
Date Of Death	March 23, 2020, Copake, NY
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Maurice Berger Biography

Maurice Berger is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on May 22, 1956 in New York, United States.

In the mid-1980s he was an assistant professor of art and gallery director at Hunter College. His interdisciplinary project “Race and Representation”, co- organized with the anthropologist Johnnetta B. Cole at Hunter College in 1987, included a book, art exhibition, and film program. His study on institutional racism, “Are Art Museums Racist?”, appeared in Art in America. In the early 1990s, Berger extended his work on visual culture and race to include the sustained study of the work of African-American artists, performers, filmmakers, producers, and cultural figures, culminating both in solo exhibitions (“Adrian Piper: A Retrospective” and “Fred Wilson Objects and Installations”), multimedia projects (including compilation videos and elaborate context stations for art exhibitions), and essays (on subjects as diverse as black artists and the limitations of mainstream art criticism, the racial implications of art historical and curatorial efforts to evaluate “outsider” art, the Harlem Document project of New York’s Photo League, and the photography, writing, and films of Gordon Parks).”

From the mid-1990s on Berger produced cinematic “culture stories,” syncopated compilations of historic clips from American film and television that explore issues of identity and self-representation. His film Threshold was featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The film was inspired by his conversations with Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran about their ideas for Bleed, their residency for the biennial. Threshold is a continuum of images from popular culture produced during the period of or about the historic civil rights movement. Critic Ben Ratliff, writing in the New York Times, observed that ” Threshold strung together clips from movies and television shows of African-Americans beginning various journeys, passages or challenges: Diana Ross and Michael Jackson on the yellow brick road in “The Wiz”; dancers on “Soul Train”; Denzel Washington as Malcolm X stepping up to a podium. The mood of that film carried through the whole week: moving forward, crossing lines, evolving.”

Maurice Berger Net Worth

Maurice Berger is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maurice Berger 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Maurice Berger (May 22, 1956 – March 23, 2020) was an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States.

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Berger grew up poor in a predominantly black and Puerto Rican public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, an experience which helped to shape his views on race. “As a Jew, I have known anti-Semitism. As a gay man, I have known homophobia,” Berger wrote in the New York Times in 2017 about his childhood. “But neither has seemed as relentless as the racism I witnessed growing up — a steady drumbeat of slights, thinly-veiled hostility, and condescension perpetrated by even the most liberal and well-meaning people. It was painful to watch. And, as my friends let me know, considerably more painful to endure.” Berger received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1978 and a Ph.D. in art history from The Graduate Center, CUNY in 1988.

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Meghan Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Maurice Berger celebrates birthday on May 22 of every year.

Berger died due to presumed complications of a coronavirus disease on March 23, 2020. He was 63 years old.