Enrique Martínez Celaya has been named the Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth University.
"As a Roth Scholar, Martínez Celaya will visit classes, deliver a series of public lectures that he plans to publish in book form, and work from a studio in the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Having a studio on campus will allow for additional conversations with students and faculty from different fields, including the arts, sciences, philosophy, economics, business, and history, he says. “During this residency I hope to become part of the Dartmouth community, offer lectures, mentor students, collaborate with some of the College’s institutes and programs, and prepare projects for my upcoming exhibitions,” he says."
Vibha Galhotra is the recipient of the 2016-17 Asian Culture Council Grant and a 2016 Bellagio Center Resident with the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy.
The Asian Cultural Council works to advance international respect and understanding between people and cultures through transformative cultural exchange. The grant allows Galhotra to live and work in New York and Chicago for a period of six months. The Bellagio Center Residency with The Rockefeller Foundation in Italy is for artists who share in the Foundation's mission of promoting the well-being of humanity around the world and whose work is inspired by or relates to global or social issues. She will be a resident this summer from July - August 2016.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Richard Mosse at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, February 15 - April 23, 2017.
"Barbican Art Gallery has invited conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse to create an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve. In collaboration with composer Ben Frost and cinematographerTrevor Tweeten, Mosse has been working with an advanced new thermographic weapons and border imaging technology that can see beyond 50km, registering a heat signature of relative temperature difference. Classed as part of advanced weapons systems under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Mosse has been using this export controlled camera against its intended purpose, to create an artwork about the refugee crisis unfolding in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Libya, in Syria, the Sahara, the Persian Gulf, and other locations."
Titus Kaphar and Carrie Mae Weems are included in Anderson Ranch's 2016 Summer Series.
A highlight of Anderson Ranch’s 50th anniversary year, Featured Artists & Conversations hosts world-renowned artists and key figures in the art world who visit the Ranch’s five acre site located in Aspen/Snowmass to present and discuss their work with students, faculty, patrons and the public. Titus Kaphar will speak on July 7th and Carrie Mae Weems on July 21st.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is included in Duro Olowu's "Making & Unmaking" on view now at the Camden Arts Centre through September 18, 2016.
"Filling all three galleries, the Central Space, Reading Room and Garden, this exhibition draws together over 70 artists from around the world spanning this century and the last, including 19th century textiles made by unknown hands. Individually, each work has a story to tell; collectively, they begin a conversation in which visual, narrative and thematic relationships unfold. This eclectic collage of works, some of which have strong political undercurrents, addresses issues surrounding cultural identity, sexuality and the representation of the body. Olowu’s exhibition invites a multifaceted journey of encounters with the intuition, skill and vision of the artists represented within it."
El Anatsui's Gli, 2010 is featured in Unlimited at Art Basel 2016, June 16 -19, 2016.
Carrie Mae Weems will debut "Grace Notes: Reflections for Now" at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston on June 4th and 5th.
"Always focused on social justice, acclaimed visual artist Carrie Mae Weems offers up Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, a provocative performance of music, song, text, spoken word, and video projection that explores our historical moment. For this seminal performance, Weems brings together such artists and consummate intellectuals as composers and musicians James Newton, Geri Allen, and Craig Harris, along with poet Aja Monet, writer Carl Hancock Rux, and singers Alicia Hall Moran, Imani Uzuri, and Eisa Davis. Originally conceived as a gift to President Obama, who sang a rendition of “Amazing Grace” during his eulogy for Emanuel AME Church victim Reverend Clementa Pinckney, this immersive experience asks: what is the role of grace in the pursuit of democracy?"
Brad Kahlhamer's Supercatcher, 2014 is on view at SFMOMA, re-opening May 14, 2016
Shimon Attie's "The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan - An Anatomy of a Welsh Village" will be on view at the National Museum Cardiff April 30 - September 4, 2016.
""The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan - An Anatomy of a Welsh Village" is a work of art developed in 2006 by Shimon Attie as a contribution to the community of Aberfan’s desire to move on from the tragic events of 21 October 1966. On this day Aberfan became known throughout the world when a colliery waste tip slid down the hillside and engulfed Pantglas Junior School killing 28 adults and 116 children. Ever since, the community has been tied to the tragedy - trapped and contained by a growing archive of photographs, films and reportage relating to the disaster. "The Attraction of Onlookers" is a five-channel video installation that seeks to give back to the community a sense of anonymity. The installation presents individuals and groups from community, separating them in time and space from the events of 1966. In the realm of the imaginary at least, Aberfan can be a Welsh village among many other Welsh villages. For this presentation of "The Attraction of Onlookers," organised 50 years after the disaster, the video installation is shown alongside still photographs of the community taken by Attie in 2006."
"Star of Africa: Monumental Works by El Anatsui" is on view at the Trapholt Museum in Denmark, from March 17 - October 23, 2016.
El Anatsui has installed "Ugwu" a site specific work at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, on view through November 2, 2016.
Facts on the Ground - Shimon Attie, Norman Kleeblatt, Maya Benton - An Artist Dialogue Series
Shimon Attie will discuss his evocative new monograph and concurrent exhibition, "Facts on the Ground," with Norman Kleeblatt, Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York, and Maya Benton, Curator at the International Center of Photography on May 10th from 6-8pm at the New York Public Library. The conversation is free and open to the public.
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Kerry James Marshall, "Mastry" opens April 23, 2016 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
"The MCA is honored to present a major museum survey of Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), one of America’s greatest living artists. The exhibition focuses primarily on Marshall’s paintings made over the last 35 years, from his seminal inaugural statement Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self (1980) to his most recent explorations of African American history."
El Anatsui is included in the Marrakech Biennale 6 exhibition, "Not New Now" on view through May 8, 2016.
Enrique Martínez Celaya talk at New York Public Library, Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 6pm
To celebrate the publication of two books, Enrique Martínez Celaya will speak with Gabrielle De Ferrari at the New York Public Library on April 5th at 6pm. Copies of "Art and Mindfulness" (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) and "Enrique Martínez Celaya 1990-2015" (Radius Books, 2016) are available for purchase and signing at the end of event. The event will be first come first serve.
"British Art Show 8" includes works by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
"Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is included in "British Art Show 8" a touring exhibition of contemporary British artists who have been selected for the significant contribution they have made to contemporary art in the UK over the past 5 years. The exhibition is currently on view in Edinburgh through May 8, 2016."
Hank Willis Thomas opens a solo exhibition at Kadist Art Foundation on February 24, 2016 in San Francisco.
"Borrowing its title from James Baldwin's1985 essay on the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979-81, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, this solo exhibition plays with notions of presence and absence, sound and silence, and visibility and invisibility in the work of Hank Willis Thomas. Through his installations, photography, videos, and media works, Hank Willis Thomas uses images and themes from advertising and pop-culture to expose their reinforcement of generalizations surrounding gender, race and ethnicity. In his legibly present, but audibly absent text-based works, 'voices' are disembodied or silent, but their narratives and images reveal a hauntingly voluble history of resistance."
Carrie Mae Weems "Considered" is now open at the SCAD Museum of Art through June 12, 2016.
"The SCAD Museum of Art presents "Carrie Mae Weems: Considered," an exhibition by deFINE ART 2016 honoree and keynote speaker Carrie Mae Weems that brings together a range of her work that is both provocatively disparate and deeply connected. This focus on a nuanced consideration of history, particularly as its tropes, forms the core of this exhibition as each series appears universal in scope, yet also isolates and draws upon more individual themes and issues." Carrie Mae Weems will give the keynote speech Wednesday, February 17th at 6pm, the event is free and open to the public.
Enrique Martínez Celaya opens a new exhibition, "Small Paintings 1974-2015" at the University of Alabama Birmingham's Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts on January 22, 2016.
"Enrique Martínez Celaya: Small Paintings 1974-2015 surveys the work of one of the most enigmatic artists of our time through a focus on the artist’s intimately scaled paintings. The exhibition will feature more than 45 small paintings, tracing both chronological developments and many of the artist’s long-abiding themes, while also revealing his evolving approach to composition and technique over four decades. In addition to the two galleries of small paintings, the exhibition will also feature a gallery of five large-scale paintings, providing further insight into the profound body of work and offering additional context to understand the significance of these small works."
Leslie Wayne is included "New York Studio Conversations," a series of sixteen interviews with female artists conducted by the art historian Stephanie Buhmann.
"Looking for an approach beyond the mainstream media coverage of the art market, Buhmann visited the artists in their studios and gained insights in this intimate space of artistic practices. All based in New York, the artists represent a wide range of different styles and media. "New York Studio Conversations" uncovers their artistic practices and creative approaches as well as philosophy, sources of inspiration, and personal stories."
Brad Kahlhamer will speak at the Denver Art Museum's Symposium on American Indian Art on Thursday, January 7th.
El Anastui's "Five Decades" travels to Carriageworks in Sydney, opening January 7, 2016.
"Acknowledged worldwide as one of the most remarkable artists working today, El Anatsui’s meticulously constructed assemblages examine the complex histories of post-colonial Africa and the issues of consumption, waste and the environment."
"Question Bridge: Black Males" is now available from the Aperture Foundation
Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative, transmedia project that uses video to facilitate a conversation among black men from diverse backgrounds. Originally created by Chris Johnson in 1996, the project was revived by Hank Willis Thomas, Kamal Sinclair, and Bayeté Ross Smith who filmed over 150 black men in nine American cities, each of whom asked questions and answered those posed by other black men.
The founding artists, along with contributions from Ambassador Andrew Young, Jesse Williams, Rashid Shabazz, and Delroy Lindo, will introduce and contextualize the body of the work and provide closing remarks on our current and future social climate.
El Anatsui is included in “The Contemporary 2: Who interprets the world?” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan through December 13, 2015.
"“The Contemporary 2: Who interprets the world?” asks how contemporary artists rooted in different cultures see and convey the state of the larger world beyond their community. In contemporary society, where “displace” and “crossover” cultures is becoming the normal state, relationships of all kinds are made fluid. Historical perspectives and social values taken for granted until now obtain new meanings, depending on who is doing the interpreting. This exhibition views the diverse artworks born explosively, particularly from regions peripheral to Japan, as “practices for living.” It examines how people living in the same age as we, yet in different time-zones and locations, look at the world."
Brad Kahlhamer opens solo exhibition at Joslyn Art Museum, November 14 - April 17, 2016.
"Kahlhamer plans to make new work in response to Joslyn’s Native American collection for his exhibition in the Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project Gallery. This fall, the artist is spending six weeks in Omaha, researching Joslyn’s collection and creating his installation for the Riley CAP Gallery."
Titus Kaphar's "The Vesper Project" opens at American University's Katzen Arts Center November 7, 2015 and will be on view through December 13, 2015.
"Kaphar's most ambitious expression to date, The Vesper Project is a culmination of an intense five-year engagement with the lost storylines of the Vesper family." The artist will give a free public lecture for the University's series, 'Kinetic: Conversations in Contemporary Art' on Friday November 6th at 6pm.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, "Capsule 03" opens October 30th at Haus der Kunst in Munich and will remain on view through February 14, 2016.
"Yiadom-Boakye's figures evolve in the painting process and are developed from the paint itself. Her paintings' palette is often dark and exhibits a certain preference for earthy tones, from whose subdued lighting strong color accents emerge. Her protagonists are exclusively black, and thereby challenge the accepted norm of Western European figurative painting. "People ask me, 'Why do you not paint all the figures green?" – 'Because I want them to look real; this is not a Benetton advert.' Of course it's political. Everything is political."
Kerry James Marshall, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Meleko Mokgosi are included in "A Story Within a Story" at The Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art through November 22, 2015.
"The project will look at work by artists who interfere with history-making by rescuing events and their protagonists from historical oblivion and seek to open up the readings of contemporary history. Moreover, A story within a story… will explore history as a radical act by focusing on socially engaged projects, which interrogate notions of collective memory and publicness from transnational and transhistorical perspectives."
"30 Americans" continues to tour the country, opening at the Detroit Institute of Arts on October 18, 2015.
"A dynamic showcase of contemporary art by African American artists, this exhibition explores issues of racial, political, historical and gender identity in contemporary culture. See more than 50 paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs and video drawn from the Rubell Family Collection, created by many of the most important African American artists working over the past 30 years, including Kerry James Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, Nick Cave, Kehinde Wiley, Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Colescott, Glenn Ligon and Lorna Simpson."
"Uniform: a collaboration with Jackie Nickerson" on view at the National Gallery in Dublin.
"This display will comprise photographs selected from Jackie Nickerson’s series Terrain (2012-13) and paintings from several schools and periods from the National Gallery’s permanent collection. The photographs, taken in several southern African countries, are studies of individual agricultural workers and farmers carrying items associated with their work in a manner that in most cases obscures their faces and/or alters their figurative outline. Many have a markedly abstract, distorted quality that eschews the fundamental character of the studies as portraits. Several of these large-scale portraits will be juxtaposed with works from the Gallery’s collection. The intention is to initiate conversations between the works which will invite a corresponding dialogue among the viewing audience." On view through January 10, 2016.
Richard Mosse's "The Enclave" is included in "TU DOIS CHANGER TA VIE" part of Lille 3000 in Tripostal France through January 17, 2016.
Richard Mosse's "The Enclave" on view at the National Gallery of Victoria, October 10, 2015 - February 2016.
"Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse. Partly inspired by Joseph Conrad’s modernist literary masterpiece Heart of Darkness, the visceral and moving work was filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo using 16mm colour infra-red film, which captures otherwise invisible parts of the spectrum. The resulting imagery in Mosse’s work is hallucinatory and dream-like with the usual greens of jungle and forest replaced by shimmering violet. The Enclave depicts a complicated, strife-ridden place in a way that reflects its complexity, using a strategy of beauty and transfixion to combat the wider invisibility of a conflict that has claimed so many." For more information please visit:
Leslie Wayne at Exposition D’Automne. Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Château Labottière, Bordeaux, France, September 12, 2015 – March 6, 2016.
"On loan from the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, these works of Leslie Wayne exhibited at the 2015 Autumn Exhibition of l'Insitut Culturel are painting-sculptures that straddle the boundary where paint jumps from the plane and becomes volume. Leslie Wayne lives and works in New York, where she accumulates oil paint layers before drawing, and scratches, bends, and cuts them to give them physical forms, even geological. Inspired by the landscape of the American West, these works represent the colors, lights and special geography of the landscape. Although not in classic reproduction of the famous genre, Wayne captures in these works the corporeal essence of terrestrial movements."
"Us Is Them" at The Pizzuti Collection includes work by El Anatsui, Nick Cave, Hayv Kahraman, Titus Kaphar, Adi Nes, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems, on view September 18, 2015 - April 2, 2016.
"The exhibition is organized to reflect timely and potent issues of social justice and current affairs across the world. There exists a long history of artists as social critics from Goya to Manet. Artists are in the unique position to create things of beauty that inspire reflection, elevate our consciousness and fuel a sense of responsibility. The artists in US IS THEM continue that tradition by creating enlightening and thoughtful works that challenge and rearrange stale notions of identity and obsolete notions of difference."
Adi Nes, "Biblical Stories" opens at the Haggerty Museum at Marquette University September 17, 2015.
"The nine photographs included in this exhibition are contemporary re-presentations of subjects, characters, and stories from the Old Testament. In his large-scale, elaborately staged photographs, which often reference well-known works from the history of art, Israeli artist Adi Nes uses themes from Biblical narratives to explore present-day issues of social justice." The exhibition will run through December 23, 2015, and the artist will be present to speak on the work November 5, 2015."
Hank Willis Thomas, "Primary Sources" opens August 30th at Brown University's Bell Gallery.
Hank Willis Thomas: Primary Sources brings together mix media sculptures, retroreflective screenprints and a five channel video installation of James Baldwin’s prescient social criticisms to explore the dynamic ways in which Thomas revisits historical narratives for the present. The work included in this exhibition compelling communicates contemporary acts of protest mediated, as they always are, through the events of history.
Mark di Suvero's "Chonk On" is installed on the front lawn of The School in Kinderhook, through the end of June 2016.
Richard Mosse's "The Enclave" opens August 27th at the Nasher Museum at Duke University
"The Nasher Museum presents Richard Mosse’s The Enclave, an immersive 40-minute six-channel video installation shot in eastern Congo. The Enclave is the culmination of the artist’s recent body of work and will be on view in the Southeast for the first time. Debuting at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, where Mosse represented Ireland, The Enclave is a beautiful and haunting look at a region of Africa that has been plagued by civil war, political instability and humanitarian crises for decades."
Nasher Museum commissions two murals by Odili Donald Odita for "Nasher10" opening August 18, 2015.
In celebration of its first decade, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University will commission a mural by abstract painter Odili Donald Odita on a wall of the Downtown Durham YMCA, 218 W. Morgan St. The mural will be unveiled on Oct. 10 at a block party in downtown Durham. This temporary exhibition will be on view through 2017. Odita has also begun painting a large-scale wall painting inside the museum, titled Shadow and Light (for Julian Francis Abele). It is scheduled to be complete by August 18th.
Hank Willis Thomas, "The Truth Is I See You" now on view at MetroTech Commons through June 2016.
Presented by Public Art Fund, "The Truth Is I See You" explores he nature of truth and understanding across cultures. Using the phrases of a poem written in collaboration with artist Ryan Alexiev, the core of the exhibition is a new series of comic book-inspired speech balloon signs that feature universal statements about truth in 22 of the many languages spoken in Brooklyn. Installed along the MetroTech Promenade, each sign also features an English translation of the phrase and is accompanied by a pronunciation guide. Within the Commons, the speech balloon is repeated in new sculptural works: two benches of rolled steel create circular spaces for contemplation, while a large-scale steel tree has branches that seem to grow into thought bubbles. Together these works invite us to approach our different perspectives on truth with a new sense of understanding.
Michael Snow, "Sequences" opens July 9th at La Virreina Image Centre in Barcelona, and will run through November 1, 2015.
El Anatsui included in "Atopolis" at WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, opening June 13 through October 18, 2015.
This contemporary art exhibition, organized by Wiels in collaboration with Mons 2015 – European Capital of Culture, will present a group of artists interested in phenomena of circulation, diaspora and cultural dislocation.
Hank Willis Thomas talk at The Jewish Museum - Thursday, June 25th, 6:30pm
Artists Hank Willis Thomas and Sarah Crowner speak about their work in the context of the exhibition 'Repetition and Difference,' in a conversation with Daniel S. Palmer, Leon Levy Assistant Curator from 6:30 – 7:30 pm in the Exhibition Galleries. The talk is free with museum admission.
Deborah Luster's "Tooth for an Eye" series is included in "Southern Exposure" on view now at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville through August 30th.
Richly detailed images come to mind when someone says “the American South” or “the Deep South.” Moss-draped oaks creating canopies over enormous columned mansions. Lazy rivers winding through verdant shores teeming with wildlife. Southern Exposure explores the territories that exist in our collective memory of the Southern landscape—as it was and as it exists today.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, "Verses After Dusk" opens at London's Serpentine Galleries on June 2nd.
“The enigmatic subjects of Lynette’s portraits appear to exist outside time and space, yet manage at the same time to reference a history of Western painting. There is so much more to see in her multi-dimensional work than immediately meets the eye. We are thrilled to be showing her at the Serpentine Gallery this summer.” -Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Galleries
Titus Kaphar's "The Vesper Project" now open at the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati through October 11, 2015.
History painting, excavation and iconoclasm meet in the work of American artist Titus Kaphar as he interrogates the racial skeletons of art history. The Vesper Project is a massive, multi-part installation in which paintings are woven into the walls of a 19th century American house. It is the culmination of a five-year engagement with the lost storylines of the Vespers, a 19th century family who “passed” as a white family in New England even as their mixed heritage made them “Negro” in the eyes of the law. In this project the members of this family and their histories are entwined with Kaphar’s reformulated biography, razing and rebuilding once sturdy foundations of the past.
Kerry James Marshall and Kay Hassan are included in 'All the World's Futures' at the 56th Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor and on view May 9th - November 22nd.
The show consists of over 136 artists from fifty-three countries, and will feature a space for live programming in the Central Pavilion designed by David Adjaye called The Arena. “The linchpin of this program will be the epic live reading of all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital,” Enwezor states. “Here, Das Kapital will serve as a kind of Oratorio that will be continuously read live, throughout the exhibition’s seven months’ duration.”
El Anatsui to receive this year's Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 56th Venice Biennale
"El Anatsui is perhaps the most significant living African artist working on the continent today. The award for which I am recommending him is an important honor to an artist who has contributed immensely to the recognition of contemporary African artists in the global arena. It is also a worthy recognition of the originality of Anatsui’s artistic vision, his long-term commitment to formal innovation, and his assertion through his work of the place of Africa’s artistic and cultural traditions in international contemporary art. The Golden Lion Award acknowledges not just his recent successes internationally, but also his artistic influence amongst two generations of artists working in West Africa. It is also an acknowledgment of the sustained, crucial work he has done as an artist, mentor and teacher for the past forty-five years."
- Paolo Baratta, Chairman of the Board of Directors of la Biennale di Venezia
Meleko Mokgosi's "Democratic Intuition" is on view now at the ICA Boston through August 9th.
African history meets Western forms of expression in the work of Meleko Mokgosi. Working from photos and clippings from his native Botswana, the New York–based artist creates scenes that investigate Southern Africa’s past and present.
Nick Cave's "Here Hear" at the Cranbrook Art Museum, opening June 20, will be preceded by two months of special appearances and programming
This spring, summer, and fall, Cranbrook Art Museum and Detroit will serve as the backdrop for Nick Cave’s most ambitious project to date – Nick Cave: Here Hear. At the invitation of Cranbrook Art Museum, Cave will stage seven months of events throughout the city of Detroit anchored by his first solo exhibition in Michigan at Cranbrook Art Museum, opening this summer. The events will kick off in April, when Nick begins “invading” the city of Detroit for a series of site-specific photo shoots. His first stop will be on the Peristyle at Cranbrook Art Museum at noon on April 10.
Shimon Attie's commissioned memorial to fallen San Francisco police officers to open in new headquarters
“There is no salve for the kind of tragic and traumatic loss that families, loved ones, and colleagues of fallen officers have experienced,” says Attie. “This memorial artwork seeks to frame these losses with written expressions of gratitude for the sacrifices made, and for the service and valor of fallen officers. The intention of the memorial is to reflect the enormity of the losses while also pointing to the possibility of healing, regeneration and the making of meaning.”
Deborah Luster Named 2015 Gardner Fellow in Photography
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the selection of the 2015 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the Fellowship to American photographer Deborah Luster. The Fellowship carries a $50,000 stipend to begin or complete a proposed project followed by publication of a book.
Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Arts: Shimon Attie at the Art Gallery of Ontario, March 12 at 4:00pm
PLEASE NOTE: This talk was previously scheduled for 6:30pm at York University, it will now take place in Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario at 4:00pm.
In this public talk, titled Sites Unseen, Attie will discuss some of his signature art projects, including early site-specific installations in Europe and the USA as well as more recent works that involve multiple-channel immersive video installations. He will also presentimages from his most recent project, Facts on the Ground, a series of site-specific installations that he created across Israel and Palestine.
Carrie Mae Weems: "Field of View and Other Minor Considerations" Lecture at Performa Institute March 26 at 6:30pm
Performa is pleased to announce Carrie Mae Weems’ Field of View and Other Minor Considerations, a playful and poignant reflection on the artist’s life and career, as the latest installment of its Portrait of the Artist series. Using snatches of critical commentary provided by scholars Daphne Brooks and Tavia Nyong’o and bits of music and text, Weems considers the cultural context of her artistic production. This unique combination of perspectives–both a personal account and an informed analytical reasoning–will illuminate Weems’ singular influence on contemporary art in general and black and feminist studies and art in particular.
Odili Donald Odita Rothschild Lecture at the Nasher Museum: March 17 at 7:00pm
The Nasher Museum presents Odili Donald Odita, an abstract painter who uses color to mirror the complexity of the world. He explores, in his paintings, a way to address the human condition through pattern, structure and design—and also trigger memory. For the annual Rothschild Lecture he will deliver a talk, entitled “3rd Degree of Separation.” The Nasher Museum plans to commission a mural by Odita in downtown Durham, and also a large-scale wall painting at the museum, in celebration of Nasher10, the museum’s first decade.
Carlos Vega, "See You Now" at the Orlando Museum of Art, on view March 14 - June 14, 2015
The Orlando Museum of Art is pleased to present this thematic exhibition by the contemporary Spanish artist, Carlos Vega. The exhibition celebrates a period in Spanish history when Christianity, Judaism and Islam coexisted and flourished on the Iberian Peninsula. Vega explores this dynamic period of intellectual exchange and spiritual tolerance in complex works that are both beautiful and rich with symbolic meaning. See You Now is a call for exhibition visitors to consider the aspirations of this golden age of humanism and embrace them again today.
Carrie Mae Weems Lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: March 11, 2015 at 6:30pm
Join Weems as she discusses the fluid boundaries of music, photography, video, performance, and text in a program that blends the stories and images of Weems's 35-year career.
"Question Bridge" wins this year's ICP Infinity Award for New Media
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye to be included in Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible from March 5 - June 5, 2015
Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (SB12) invites over fifty artists and cultural practitioners from over twenty-five countries to introduce their ideas of the possible through their art and work. The exhibition takes place in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, crossing the emirate to sites in and around the city as well as in the city of Kalba on the Gulf of Oman.
El Anatsui's "Gravity and Grace" makes it's final stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, March 6 - June 28, 2015
El Anatsui’s work has won worldwide acclaim for its power and splendor. He is widely celebrated for transforming discarded objects into shimmering, pliable artworks of monumental beauty. Drawing on artistic and aesthetic traditions from his birth country of Ghana, his home in Nigeria, and various Western art forms including modernist and post-modern modes of expression, Anatsui culls from his environment, both natural and manmade, as a source of material and motivation.
Brad Kahlhamer on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: March 9 - May 10, 2015 - Artist Walkthrough on March 13, 2015 at 6:30
This exhibition will unite Plains Indian masterworks found in European and North American collections, from pre-contact to contemporary, ranging from a two-thousand-year-old human-effigy stone pipe to contemporary paintings, photographs, and a video-installation piece. Works of art collected centuries ago by French traders and travelers will be seen together with those acquired by Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition of 1804–06, along with objects from the early reservation period and recent works created in dialogue with traditional forms and ideas.
'Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Works' opens March 8th at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans
On view March 8th through June 7th, "Recent Works" includes the eighth iteration of "Windward Coast" Bailey’s magnum opus that grew out of his earlier experimentation, "Storm at Sea," created in 2008 for NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith.
Pratt Photography Lectures and The Pratt Photo League present Jackie Nickerson, speaking February 18, 2015 at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn at 6:30pm.
Jackie Nickerson is included in "Earth Matters" at Artipelag Museum in Sweden, opening February 6, 2015.
The exhibition "Earth Matters," on view through May 3rd, alerts us to consider how we over-consume Earth’s resources, but also celebrates the beauty of our planet. Areas such as design, art, photography, food and fashion are increasingly driven by a new creative energy that is inspired by natural materials and sustainability. From land to sea, from forest to mountain, a wealth of ideas sprout from the Earth, analyzing and cataloguing its components: transformed into new materials, recycled remnants, oxidized alloys and vegetal colors.
El Anatsui and Nick Cave included in "Re:Purposed" at the Ringling Museum
Re:Purposed, on view February 13 - May 17, 2015, will explore several of the more recognizable trends among artists who consistently “repurpose” garbage or detritus in their practice. Through their work the exhibition will explore themes of Index, Identity, and Environment. Each theme is a potent reminder of our close connection to the materials we use to create and facilitate our lives. In the deft hands of these artists we see that those connections are far from severed when these materials are discarded..
Michael Snow's complete films to be screened this year at the Toronto International Film Festival
Toyin Odutola at the Allentown Art Museum
Toyin Odutola is in fantastic company in a new group exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum. Her work, "If she doesn't say anything, then it never happened" is included in "Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African-American Women" on view now through April 12th..
Richard Mosse's "The Enclave" to open at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art February 5, 2015
Located outside Copenhagen in Denmark, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art will exhibit "The Enclave" from February 5 - May 25, 2015. First shown in the Irish Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale, this powerful work continues to captivate viewers from around the world. "The Enclave" comprises six monumental double-sided screens installed in a large darkened chamber creating a physically immersive experience. This disorienting and kaleidoscopic installation is intended to formally parallel eastern Congo’s multifaceted conflict, confounding expectations and forcing the viewer to interact spatially from an array of differing viewpoints. "The Enclave" is an experiential environment that attempts to reconfigure the dictates of photojournalism and expanded video art..
Radcliffe Bailey at the University of Arkansas' Fine Arts Center Gallery
"Radcliffe Bailey: Storm at Sea" opened this week at the Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of Arkansas. The exhibition considers themes of ancestry, race, and memory. Often working with found materials, Bailey deftly creates artwork that explores the relationship between past and present..
Barkley L. Hendricks, Titus Kaphar, Carlos Vega and Toyin Odutola at the National Academy Museum
"SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence" opens tomorrow, January 29th at the National Academy Museum in New York. Artists have created self-portraits for centuries, in part to ensure presence in their absence. Self explores the relationship artists have with their own image and how self-representation has evolved over the past 200 years. In our age of compulsive self-celebration, it is an especially compelling moment to examine this enduring artistic genre.
Toyin Odutola, Nick Cave, Vibha Galhotra and Hayv Kahraman included in Piece by Piece: Building a Collection at the Kemper Museum
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, opens January 30th and premieres a selection of more than 30 objects in a range of media by 26 national and international artists from the Kansas City–based collection of Christy and Bill Gautreaux. Meditations on process, pattern, and material emerge as a major thread connecting the works, anchoring the artists’ themes of abstraction, the body and gesture, race and politics, as well as landscape and geography. The exhibition presents a distinguished vision in the building and shaping of a unique collection. The Gautreauxes note that “Most of this work was collected one or two pieces at a time, often spontaneously,” acknowledging, “It is exciting to see it curated by the Kemper Museum into a cohesive exhibition.” The exhibition will be on view through April 26th..
Titus Kaphar Named 2015 Creative Capital Awardee
Artist Titus Kaphar was named one of Creative Capital's 2015 awardees in the category of Visual Arts for his ongoing multi-disciplinary work, The Jerome Project..
Toyin Odutola at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
A solo exhibition, Toyin Odutola: Untold Stories, is on view in the Front Room gallery at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis through February 28, 2015.
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Carrie Mae Weems Honored with ICP Spotlights Award
Carrie Mae Weems will receive the International Center of Photography's annual Spotlights Award, honoring women seminal in the visual arts, on January 27th.
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Artist to Artist: Kerry James Marshall in New Orleans with Art21
In the new fourth film from ART21's "Artist to Artist" series, Kerry James Marshall visits the Prospect New Orleans Prospect.3 biennial—currently on view through Jan. 25, 2015—speaking with five fellow artists and one collective.
Adi Nes: Narratives on view at Fotografiska in Stockholm
A solo exhibition of Adi Nes' carefully staged photographs is on view at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden, through March 8, 2015.
Jackie Nickerson photographs TIME Person of the Year
Jackie Nickerson was commissioned by TIME to travel to Liberia to photograph the 2014 Person of the Year: The Ebola Fighters.
Kerry James Marshall at Prospect.3 New Orleans The Manifold Pleasures, and such…, 2014
Kerry James Marshall paints blackness, literally and figuratively; he reveals and exalts those who have too often been absent from the “image bank” of art history. For P.3, Marshall has installed a row of gold-mirrored Plexiglas alcoves, which cradle an assortment of greeting cards and gift boxes, in the storefront windows of Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Rather than participate in an exhausted and limiting conversation about New Orleans—one that defines the city as the site of tragedy and its black residents as traumatized, impoverished, and disempowered subjects—Marshall chooses to honor the empowering quality of joy. The exultant and glamorized mirrors frame, magnify, and multiply these emblems of celebration; simultaneously their reflective panes draw the image of the neighborhood and the spirit of the community into the work itself. This call-and-response acknowledgment and offering is an invocation of ashé—a Yoruba word that means “the power to make things happen”—in this case the power to persist in happiness. On view through January 25, 2015.
Malick Sidibe in "Conversations" at the National Museum of African Art
Work by Malick Sidibe is included in the exhibition "Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington D.C. The exhibition is part of the museum's 50-year anniversary celebration and is on view from November 9, 2014 through January 24, 2016.
Hank Willis Thomas in "Speaking of People" at the Studio Museum November 13, 2014 - March 8, 2015
Work by Hank Willis Thomas is featured in the exhibition Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art, on view at The Studio Museum in Harlem through March 8, 2015.
Kerry James Marshall Keynote Lecture at Crystal Bridges
Artist Kerry James Marshall will visit the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on November 12th to present a Keynote Lecture. His large-scale painting "Our Town" is part of the museum's permanent collection.
Toyin Odutola at CAM St. Louis
Untold Stories, a solo exhibition of Toyin Odutola's work, will be on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis from January 16 through February 28, 2015.
Carrie Mae Weems honored with Lucie Award
Carrie Mae Weems has been selected as the Fine Arts honoree for the 2014 Lucie Awards. The award will be presented at the 12th Annual Lucie Awards Gala at Carnegie Hall on November 2, 2014.
Nick Cave at Carriageworks, New South Wales
Nick Cave will be speaking about his body of work on November 13, 2014 at Carriageworks, a contemporary multi-arts center in New South Wales, Australia.
Odili Donald Odita in Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color
Three one-person exhibitions, featuring Patrick Wilson, Odili Donald Odita, and Manfred Mohr, are on view at the at the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech through November 20, 2014.
Civil Rights Exhibition Co-Curated by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
An exhibition titled "Civil Rights: We have it in our power to begin the world over again" is on view at the Void Art Centre in Derry, Ireland, through December 20th, 2014. Curated by Lynette Yiadom Boakye & Maolíosa Boyle, the exhibition includes work by Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, Ellen Gallagher, Glenn Ligon, Adam Pendalton, Hank Willis Thomas, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, and Radcliffe Bailey.
El Anatsui in The Art of Our Time at Guggenheim Bilbao
Work by El Anatsui titled "Earth's Skin" is on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao as part of the 20th Anniversary exhibition "The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections," on view through May 3, 2015.
Titus Kaphar at The Studio Museum in Harlem
The Jerome Project, a solo exhibition of Titus Kaphar's work, will be on view at The Studio Museum in Harlem from November 13, 2014, through March 8, 2015.
Nick Cave at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Nick Cave will present an exhibition of Soundsuits, video and Tondos at the Saint Louis Museum of Art from October 31, 2014 - March 8, 2015.
Richard Mosse: The Enclave at the Portland Art Museum
The Enclave, Richard Mosse's multi-channel infrared film installation, will be on view at the Portland Art Museum from November 8, 2014, through April 12, 2015.
Carrie Mae Weems at Prospect.3 New Orleans
Work by Carrie Mae Weems is on view at the McKenna Museum in New Orleans as part of Prospect.3: Notes from Now, on view through January 25, 2015.
Richard Mosse: The Enclave debuts in Canada
Richard Mosse's multi-channel film installation "The Enclave" is on view at the DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art in Montreal through February 8, 2015.
Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time
The National Academy Museum, New York
October 2, 2014 to January 11, 2015
Work by gallery artists Shimon Attie, Radcliffe Bailey, Yoan Capote, Gehard Demetz, Titus Kaphar, Tallur LN, Malick Sidibé and Susana Solano is included in the exhibition "Beyond the Classical" on view at the National Academy Museum in New York through January 11, 2015.
The Water Tank Project: Odili Donald Odita
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
On view at 282 11th Avenue, NYC
Artwork by Odili Donald Odita is on view in Chelsea as part of the Water Tank Project, meant to bring awareness to water scarcity around the world. Odita's work adorns a water tank above 282 11th Avenue.
Deborah Luster Selected for Residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Arts
Deborah Luster has been selected to participate in the Irish Museum of Modern Arts 2014 Residency Programme. She will be working in Dublin for three months.
