Romare Bearden
In the spirit of Romare Bearden’s earth day I have decided to dedicate a couple of posts to his work. You can find out more info:
http://www.beardencentennial.org/
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={E349E025-CAFE-40C3-8993-F39CE1775745}
Updates…
I revamped the blog, I will posting more images of works from various artists rather than so much writing. I will still notify you all on art events…..
Peace
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now
“Impressions from South Africa” and Beyond Connecting Perspectives on Africa
A Clark–MoMA ColloquiumJune 21–22, 2011
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Print RoomThe Museum of Modern Art, New York
New York Times Art Review: From Africa, Nature as Victim and Muse
Environment and Object: Recent African Art Bright Ugochukwu Eke’s “Ripples and Storm” installations at the Skidmore College Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
It says something about the stunted cosmopolitanism of the present New York art industry that while Neo-Retro-Abstract Expressionism is finding a giddy audience in the city, you have to travel three hours upstate to Skidmore College here to see an exhibition called “Environment and Object: Recent African Art.”
The show, at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, is worth the trip, even though the names on its roster offer few surprises if you follow new African art at all. And, of course, the very term “African art” can mean different things: art made in Africa, or by someone from Africa living elsewhere, or by someone not from Africa but of African descent and so on…
Studio Museum in Harlem Current Exhibitions
Here are some of the current exhibition current at SMH. I will visit Studio and definitely review the exhibitions. ‘Til then read and take care.
http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/
Stephen Burks
Man Made
Mar 31, 2011 - Jun 26, 2011
Prototypes & Material Compositions (Pile Up) Including Basket Lamps and Basket Low Tables, 2010
Photo: Daniel Håkansson for Readymade Projects
The Studio Museum in Harlem is pleased to present Stephen Burks: Man Made, a unique project that furthers industrial designer Stephen Burks’s ongoing exploration of the global economy of artisanal craft. Inspired by Burks’s collaboration with Senegalese basket weavers based in New York and Dakar, as well as projects with artisans in South Africa, Peru and India,Man Made starts with the traditional basket-weaving process as its core concept.
The exhibition will also include photographic and video documentation of Burks’s travels, as well as his own drawings and prototypes, so that audiences can experience the entire design process from inspiration to completion. On one hand, Man Made is an interactive design exhibition, and on the other, it is an active platform for working with a collective of West African artisans whose objects and presence have become a significant part of the Harlem community.
Organized by Associate Curator Naomi Beckwith, Man Made is Burks’s first solo museum exhibition in New York and will be accompanied by a new monograph designed by Burks with Studio Lin. The book will follow several of his recent projects, including those for the Museum and private clients. With Man Made and the new book, audiences will come to understand Burks’s singular vision of making, a vision committed to the expansive notion of design as an authentic basis for the production of culture in a contemporary, global context.
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Benjamin PattersonBorn in the State of FLUX/us: ScoresMar 31, 2011 - Jun 26, 2011
Benjamin Patterson (b. 1934), a founding member of Fluxus—a loose and international collective of artists who infused avant-garde practices of the day with humor and anarchic energy—helped revolutionize the artistic landscape at the advent of the 1960s and usher in an era of new and experimental music. The retrospective Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us marks the artist’s first major exhibition, bringing together a multitude of works never before seen in the United States. The exhibition is curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where the exhibition originated. Trained in classical music instrumentation and composition, Patterson made his most significant contribution to Fluxus with his concept of the “action as composition”—the resulting sound from simple and complex actions. Exploring the connection between action and music, Patterson created compositions for both the body in motion and unconventional playing of his instrument, the contra bass, through ordinary gestures and other actions. The Studio Museum exhibition Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us: Scores presents a selection of works from the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston exhibition with a central focus on scores from Patterson’s performances ranging from 1960 to 2005. Born in the State of FLUX/us: Scores also includes video from recent performances, documentation, and ephemera from the twenty years in which Patterson withdrew from his career as an artist. During this period, Patterson was employed as a reference librarian, became an arts administrator, and entrepreneur, launching his own music management company, Ben Patterson Ltd. After his hiatus, Patterson reemerged in the 1980s to resume his prolific artistic career.
DanceAfrica 2011
DanceAfrica 2011: Expressions and Encounters: African, Cuban, and American Rhythms
Part of the 2011 Spring Season, DanceAfrica 2011, and ¡Sí Cuba! Festival
May 27, 2011 at 7:30pm
May 28, 2011 at 2 & 7:30pm
May 29 & 30, 2011 at 3pm
Artistic Director Chuck Davis
Now in its 34th year, DanceAfrica, galvanized by the vision of Artistic Director Chuck Davis, unites dance companies from around the world to celebrate the cultural vitality of Africa and its diaspora. This year, in conjunction with a citywide celebration of Cuban culture and art, BAM welcomes Santiago de Cuba-based Ballet Folklórico Cutumba, masters of the island’s vibrant Afro-Cuban and Haitian popular styles. A favorite at the DanceAfrica 2002 celebration, Cutumba returns to BAM with a compelling program infused with the sultry rhythms of the Cuban gagá and son. They will be joined by Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble, Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble, and Brooklyn’s very own BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble for a program that promises to inspire.
A Memorial Day weekend tradition, DanceAfrica is packed with dance, music, art, film, and community events—plus the one-and-only DanceAfrica outdoor bazaar.
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
120min with intermission
Subscription Tickets: $16—40
(Full price: $20—50)
(Ages 16 & Under: $10—25)
Prices are subject to change.
Ballet Folklórico Cutumba (Cuba)
BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble (Brooklyn)
Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble (Bronx)
Kùlú Mèlé African Dance & Drum Ensemble (Philadelphia)
Produced by BAM
Contemporary African Art Journal
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