High ‘grooves’ on Radcliffe Bailey with special film series

This weekend, the High Museum adds another layer to Memory as Medicine, the museum’s insightful retrospective of local artist Radcliffe Bailey, with a film series. The “One World Under the Groove” film series will showcase four films — Kinshasa Symphony, Space is the Place, Strange Fruit and Return to Gorée — selected by the High’s Curator of African Art Carol Thompson to complement the exhibit she curated.

“This film series focuses on music as a transcendent art form, an important source of inspiration to Radcliffe’s art,” said Carol Thompson, coordinator of the film series and curator of the exhibition. “We are pleased to showcase these four films in conjunction with “Memory as Medicine.” Radcliffe’s work has many layers. These films add yet another layer, through another medium, further enhancing understanding of his art.”

More info about the film series, which opens this Sat., July 23, after the jump.