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Maurice Berger ‑ 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 ‑ died due to presumed complications of a coronavirus disease on March 23, 2020.   Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States.   He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between race and American art, including the critically-acclaimed For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights co-organized in 2011 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design &...