tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31320891652833930352024-03-05T09:03:56.201-08:00THE.NOIR.ARTS.GALLERYTHE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-39945677051038979212010-03-22T18:43:00.000-07:002010-03-22T18:45:06.455-07:00WALRUS TV | Brian Barneclo | "Spare Paint"<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H726tRUlO7Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H726tRUlO7Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-59666965259505727282010-03-16T06:32:00.000-07:002010-03-16T06:37:01.616-07:00Charles Moore | Civil Rights Photographer | R.I.P.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEV39asxHMij8EbUK_mnAew2LMYuPysLv62uXOpymHIFG_aU-NkLiaJ4ktEGk0iseuIi9NWGfY9bP4rlshLEXU0jzFjE_gOV6fXxs7lq6BbJc5ve2jbOku1p5btS0Mawu8ObMNC7uq6j9H/s1600-h/16moore_CA0-popup.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEV39asxHMij8EbUK_mnAew2LMYuPysLv62uXOpymHIFG_aU-NkLiaJ4ktEGk0iseuIi9NWGfY9bP4rlshLEXU0jzFjE_gOV6fXxs7lq6BbJc5ve2jbOku1p5btS0Mawu8ObMNC7uq6j9H/s400/16moore_CA0-popup.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449224417927878466" /></a><br /><br />Mr. Moore’s camera snapped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, Ala., in 1958, and James Meredith integrating the University of Mississippi in the face of a screaming mob in 1962.<br /><br />He photographed Bull Connor using dogs and high-pressure hoses on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, and recorded a black man being viciously beaten by a white lawman during the “Bloody Sunday” march from Selma, Ala., in 1965.<br /><br />To read more, click <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/16moore.html?emc=eta1">HERE</a>.THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-19146104806655283152010-03-16T06:20:00.000-07:002010-03-16T06:32:14.695-07:00JACOB LAWRENCE | Hudson River Museum | thru June 6, 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyt7g6DfapeDIaGeC4yksIoBnGTgd348hRO_lvX8Sd5GVdSRlg53UIix27FiS244v0QQs26OyIPdOhVm6OHpwrtI42zFS1vmuE4SYS1qPAEGRRFqvRiEBcEThy598Fu3GhjE9YRnT1yQa/s1600-h/Jacob-Lawrence-Tousaint-et-Ennery-New.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHyt7g6DfapeDIaGeC4yksIoBnGTgd348hRO_lvX8Sd5GVdSRlg53UIix27FiS244v0QQs26OyIPdOhVm6OHpwrtI42zFS1vmuE4SYS1qPAEGRRFqvRiEBcEThy598Fu3GhjE9YRnT1yQa/s400/Jacob-Lawrence-Tousaint-et-Ennery-New.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449222361292704482" /></a><br /><br />NEW YORK, NY.- Jacob Lawrence, born in 1917, became one of the most important African American artists of the twentieth century, renowned for his paintings of African Americans and black people of other lands who struggled for freedom. Jacob Lawrence Prints, 1963 – 2000, at the Hudson River Museum through June 6, 2010, include 81 of Lawrence’s brilliantly-colored individual prints as well as three series of prints that show his versatility as an artist and storyteller. The Legend of John Brown series depicts a deeply religious and passionately anti-slavery John Brown, who felt called to violent insurrection to dismantle the institution of slavery in the United States; the Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis series is based on Lawrence’s memories of the Baptist ministers of his youth, whose sermons contained stories of Creation; and the series on Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture focuses on the Haitian slave who became the commander of the revolutionary army that fought France and England for Haiti’s freedom. <br /><br />A key theme of this exhibition is struggle. As Lawrence himself said, “I am dealing with struggle throughout my work, I think struggle is a beautiful thing. I think it has made our country what it is, starting with the American Revolution. I would like to think of the struggle in my work as not being just a black symbol, but a symbol of man’s capacity to endure and triumph.” <br /><br />Before he was twenty, Jacob Lawrence developed a powerful, concise style that expressed all of the vibrancy and pathos of his Harlem neighborhood and its residents. He drew his material from the colors, sounds, and sites of the Harlem Renaissance. Although born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, his family moved, in 1930, to Harlem, the focal point of African American culture. <br /><br />A painter, illustrator, and educator, Lawrence received his early art training at the Utopia Settlement House in Philadelphia. He followed with study at the Harlem Art Center and the American Artists School. He first gained national prominence with The Migration of the Negro series, which was shown at New York’s Downtown Gallery. The first African American to be represented by a major New York gallery, he was also the subject of a lengthy profile in Fortune magazine. <br /><br />In 1946, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and his teaching career began as well. Among the places he taught were Black Mountain College, Pratt Institute, Brandeis University, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Washington in Seattle. <br /><br />Printmaking provided Lawrence with the means of supporting the social causes close to his heart. From his first published lithograph in 1963, he produced a dynamic body of prints exploring universal issues of equality, unity, and hope in his distinctive, personal style of flat, overlapping shapes influenced by modern art. His work evolved into a style he termed “dynamic cubism,” that was deeply influenced by the Social Realism of American art in the 1930s. Before his death in Year 2000, Lawrence received numerous awards such as the National Medal of Arts in 1990. <br /><br />Jacob Lawrence Prints, 1963-2000, A Comprehensive Survey is presented courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.<br /><br />Visit the Hudson River Museum at : <a href="http://www.hrm.org">http://www.hrm.org</a><br /><br />Source: aknTHE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-57621995559816755512009-12-17T17:02:00.000-08:002009-12-17T17:29:44.420-08:00The Skirball Cultural Center | Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement | 1956–1968<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNoncaPdmw_Bld38i5ifZo0a-LWh80B5snPzwapSMeTwruib-958y48OSotNcUg-lb8U-_dSOs7Rz51rUiTDCMmuqY8pNtFzob7Kx9w7zowKjZ23dZfESUWGYkzVbWr8V7axhXJrrVH9OF/s1600-h/Morton-Broffman-Dr-King-and-Coretta-Scott-King.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNoncaPdmw_Bld38i5ifZo0a-LWh80B5snPzwapSMeTwruib-958y48OSotNcUg-lb8U-_dSOs7Rz51rUiTDCMmuqY8pNtFzob7Kx9w7zowKjZ23dZfESUWGYkzVbWr8V7axhXJrrVH9OF/s400/Morton-Broffman-Dr-King-and-Coretta-Scott-King.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416377694975141154" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />LOS ANGELES - The largest exhibition in more than twenty years devoted to photography of the Civil Rights Movement opened at the Skirball Cultural Center on November 19, 2009, in its West Coast premiere. Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features images that helped change the nation: they shed light on injustices prevalent in America at the time, promoted solidarity among citizens, and dramatically increased the momentum of the struggle for equal rights. Road to Freedom will remain on view at the Skirball through March 7, 2010.</span><br /><br />The exhibition displays approximately 170 photographs by more than thirty-five photographers drawn primarily from the High’s permanent collection, which includes one of the most comprehensive holdings of civil rights–era photography in the country; many have never before been displayed to the public. Exclusively for this Southern California presentation of Road to Freedom, the Skirball has developed a new section focusing on Los Angeles civil rights history, with new loans from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive in the Department of Special Collections at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute. Among the local events portrayed are the picketing of Kress Store in Pasadena in 1960, the march on Pershing Square on March 14, 1965, and the Watts Riots of 1965. <br /><br />To continue reading the article, click <a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-12-16-22-33-08-the-skirball-cultural-center-shows-photographs-of-the-civil-rights-movement-1956-1968.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29">HERE</a>.THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-75127217688270044432009-12-07T12:27:00.000-08:002009-12-07T12:41:19.140-08:00Howard Greenberg Gallery | Bruce Davidson | 1970s photography<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHz9tbNsZcr-DQ1SjUp4JJW_WaX5g2NL8hyphenhyphenU6AFC_qHl3G-aLkzt6S8TdbR4iO6HhCsSHfyuAUldFCMMq25-3xEI8b4wVWrjRal8lINzcdAc5YNT2nGTMpi0XWkCEdeiXkm8DWiMkbH8U3/s1600-h/Time-of-Change-Bruce-Davidsons-Civil-Right-Photograph.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHz9tbNsZcr-DQ1SjUp4JJW_WaX5g2NL8hyphenhyphenU6AFC_qHl3G-aLkzt6S8TdbR4iO6HhCsSHfyuAUldFCMMq25-3xEI8b4wVWrjRal8lINzcdAc5YNT2nGTMpi0XWkCEdeiXkm8DWiMkbH8U3/s400/Time-of-Change-Bruce-Davidsons-Civil-Right-Photograph.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412596296061727074" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">NEW YORK, NY.- Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery are presenting simultaneous exhibitions of the photographs of Bruce Davidson.</span> The exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery, entitled East 100th Street, The MoMA Show as Curated by John Szarkowski in 1970, is a re-creation of The Museum of Modern Art’s groundbreaking 1970 exhibition of forty-two photographs by the highly regarded Bruce Davidson. The photographs in the exhibition are the actual prints, presented in the exact manner in which they were shown at MoMA in 1970. <span style="font-weight:bold;">On view through 2 January, 2010.</span><br /><br />Davidson’s East 100th Street constitutes a significant social document. During 1967 and 1968, Davidson photographed on a New York block that in the 1950’s had the reputation of being one of the worst in the city. He was first attracted to the area because of the work of the Metro North Association, a committee of residents that were actively involved in trying to improve their neighborhood. Through this association and with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Davidson gained access to the people on the block. About this work Szarkowski wrote, “He has shown us true and specific people, photographed in these private moments of suspended action in which the complexity and ambiguity of individual lives triumph over abstraction.” In appreciation for their cooperation, Davidson gave prints of his photographs to hundreds of residents of the block. Many of these people attended the opening of the exhibition at the museum.<br /><br />The exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery celebrates the fifty-year career of Bruce Davidson, with representative works from many of the artist’s well-known essays. Photographs from Time of Change (1961), Brooklyn Gang (1959), Circus (1958), Subway(1980) as well as recent images will be exhibited. For this exhibition, Davidson has produced large format prints, many for the first time. The scale and position of the new Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery provides an opportunity to re-contextualize Davidson’s work. Of his show Wolkowitz said, “Bruce Davidson has had a profound influence on contemporary photography over the last five decades. We are excited to have the opportunity to showcase this legendary photographer’s work in the heart of Chelsea’s contemporary art district and to introduce it to a much wider audience.”<br /><br />Both galleries are also celebrating the Steidl publication of the three volume opus entitled Outside/Inside containing over 800 photographs that span Davidson’s entire career.<br /><br />Also on exhibit at the Howard Greenberg Gallery are the recently published limited edition portfolio entitled Bruce Davidson: Central Park in Platinum. The fourteen images in the portfolio were made during many of Davidson’s explorations of the park that began in 1991 and continue to this day.<br /><br />Bruce Davidson was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1933. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University. When he completed military service in 1957 he worked as a photographer for Life Magazine and in 1958, became a member of Magnum Agency. He has had one-man exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, The International Center of Photography, The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, The Aperture Foundation, and The Foundation Cartier-Bresson in Paris He has received numerous grants and awards including two grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography in 2004 and the Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club in 2007. His photographs have appeared in numerous publications and his prints have been acquired by many major museums worldwide. He has also directed three films.<br /><br />Davidson continues to lecture, conduct workshops and produce astounding images.<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-12-07-02-14-32-howard-greenberg-gallery-re-creates-1970-photo-exhibition-by-bruce-davidson.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29">AKN</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-29917822010763490292009-12-01T08:07:00.000-08:002009-12-01T08:13:34.368-08:00JOSE CENDON | Valencian Institute of Modern Art | Photography<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Irv68cps__ahyphenhyphenMsWnETu3rx1KYWM8nNvfNWzvLNjEPExH32IUc4Vou4_xCapPgcdB_1AKaBrG5dva1VCICeczu-5KeJ-cQfHHaF3xnEBtnvWw013cUKkVrBLd5Z09oEPQNKeervmijx6/s1600/Jose-Cendon-Fear-in-the-Great-Lakes.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Irv68cps__ahyphenhyphenMsWnETu3rx1KYWM8nNvfNWzvLNjEPExH32IUc4Vou4_xCapPgcdB_1AKaBrG5dva1VCICeczu-5KeJ-cQfHHaF3xnEBtnvWw013cUKkVrBLd5Z09oEPQNKeervmijx6/s400/Jose-Cendon-Fear-in-the-Great-Lakes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410300583410618386" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">VALENCIA, SPAIN - José Cendón's photographic exhibition "Fear in the Great Lakes" emerges from the collaboration between the Fundación por la Justicia and the IVAM. It gathers photographs that show the work of this Galician photographer in psychiatric hospitals in the African Great Lakes region. José Cendón tries to show to society the consequences of war in civil population by means of these photographies. He obtained the World Press Photo 2007 Award (category of Contemporary Issues) and the Pictures of the Year Awards. The exhibition will remain opened until the 3 January, 2010 at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art.<br /></span><br />"Fear in the Great Lakes" portrays the difficult helping circumstances in developing countries, discussing the mental illness as the theme. These snapshots depict stories of solitude and suffering, and catch our attention towards the lives lived by those patients somewhere around the world.<br /><br />Photojournalism but also 'photo protest' which would never run the risk of becoming sensationalist images, but being in clearly support of the portrayed patient driving the attention of the international community to these practices.<br /><br />The Great Lakes region has been deeply marked by a history of ethnic conflicts due to a large extent to the colonial heritage and the natural wealth a country situated in the heart of Africa possesses: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Western companies mostly and countries like the Rwanda of Paul Kagame stock up illegally of any kind of minerals such as gold, diamonds, cassiterite, coltan (essential for the manufacture of computers and cell phones), etc. in the former Zaire without leaving any profit to their inhabitants. On the contrary, this unmerciful practice has rekindled a conflict whose effects are 38,000 deaths a month transforming the former domain of Mobutu Sese Seko in the country with the largest number of deaths because of war. <br /><br />Despite the bleak numbers the Great Lakes region shows, there are no statistics about the number of people who could be mentally affected as a consequence of those conflicts. Only a Belgian catholic congregation, "Brothers of Charity", regularly treats mental patients in Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their hospitals receive former soldiers and rebels, also men, women and children victims of the war. 'That's why I chose these institutions for the photographic work, as a metaphor of the collective insanity that has devastated this region during the last decades, also reflected in the patients' eyes. I took these photos in 2006. Nevertheless, I still can smell the foul, infected and unbreathable smell.' Cendón relates.<br /><br />José Cendón is a freelance photojournalist. Nowadays he lives in Ethiopia and he has just published the book: . He has worked in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, Palestine, Darfur and from 2005 until 2009 he has been working as a freelance photographer for the AFP (Professional Photographers Association in Spain) and other international media mainly in East Africa.<br /><br />The objective of the IVAM, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, is the investigation and diffusion of twentieth-century art. Its programme of activities offers permanent collections, temporary exhibitions, talks, courses, workshops and publications. It has two premises: the Centre Julio González, opened in 1989, and the Sala de la Muralla opened in 1991. Visit : <a href="http://www.ivam.es">http://www.ivam.es/</a><br /> <br />Source: AKNTHE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-48329834794456796692009-11-30T18:59:00.000-08:002009-11-30T19:05:36.223-08:00JAMES BRANTLEY | Transference of Light | Sande Webster Gallery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8M4gPFUr7j7TApP2KaDDEROtfKYyokNNkWvfrubKxR_eBOEE6xNSL8YhHJghqjmeAlUrehsS4Hh84INwF9oYEI5_2txv2x-T_XMFxmKHMGA4IhfVaGp8UUnInYxKVAxJ_PQJKWJvIfRUD/s1600/jamesbrantleylight.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8M4gPFUr7j7TApP2KaDDEROtfKYyokNNkWvfrubKxR_eBOEE6xNSL8YhHJghqjmeAlUrehsS4Hh84INwF9oYEI5_2txv2x-T_XMFxmKHMGA4IhfVaGp8UUnInYxKVAxJ_PQJKWJvIfRUD/s400/jamesbrantleylight.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410097220458662130" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">James Brantley, Steppin' Out, 58” x 33”, acrylic/canvas, 2009</span><br /><br />The lush landscapes and surreal cityscapes presented in Transference of Light are provocative, emotive and beautiful. Brantley’s scenes blend familiarity and mystery into complex visual performances. Always presenting a stimulating point of view in his work, Brantley’s newest series is no exception. In this new body of work, he has created a strong visual language that combines impressionist representation with abstraction. This unique combination redirects our expectations of light and space, expanding the mind to experience something new. Brantley masterfully paints his signature skies, clouds and sunsets, where he uses color and light with intense restraint to evoke powerful emotional responses in the viewer. Brantley’s paintings in this show are surprising and fresh as he explores new compositional structures.<br /><br />Brantley’s work is held in major public and private collections including Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Brantley’s work in The Sorgenti Collection’s exhibition, Chemistry of Color, is currently on view at the Taft Museum in Ohio and will travel to Hudson River Museum in New York and Columbia Museum in South Carolina thoughout 2010. In addition, Brantley will have a solo exhibiton at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in August 2010.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">SANDE WEBSTER GALLERY<br />TEL: 215-636-9003 | FAX 215.646.9008 | E-MAIL: artswg@aol.com<br />2006 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103</span><br /><a href="http://www.sandewebstergallery.com">www.sandewebstergallery.com</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sandewebstergallery.com">SOURCE</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-178732465651497182009-11-30T18:50:00.000-08:002009-11-30T18:57:45.905-08:00TOM FEELINGS | Bloomsbury Auctions | Fine Illustrated Books<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEd8I2fiWsXHOqzHk0c_87kiL8m08a_iiOTf5IMg0ncJt0TEAB7xtIqUwvRR2CgB6whnC7zAMJ2ugkdUd7FNf93PWGus-JJLN-tYKrmmES6K_SpZWgNRUMb9-sAk_6WncNd2GYk5ABLqaZ/s1600/Feelings-The-Middle-Passage-New.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEd8I2fiWsXHOqzHk0c_87kiL8m08a_iiOTf5IMg0ncJt0TEAB7xtIqUwvRR2CgB6whnC7zAMJ2ugkdUd7FNf93PWGus-JJLN-tYKrmmES6K_SpZWgNRUMb9-sAk_6WncNd2GYk5ABLqaZ/s400/Feelings-The-Middle-Passage-New.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410095697771792802" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">New York, NY - Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, announces their annual holiday sale of original illustrations and fine illustrated books on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 2:00pm. The sale will showcase important works from the Golden Age of Illustration to the present day. It will commence with the artistic estate of award winning African American artist Tom Feelings - a native of Brooklyn. The late Tom Feelings worked as a freelance illustrator of children’s books for over thirty years.</span><br /><br />Throughout his career, Feelings received numerous awards and honors for his outstanding portrayals of Africans and African Americans. Among the highlights of the sale is the entire collection of Feelings’ seminal 1996 work The Middle Passage ($250,000-$350,000), Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One (1972), Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987) and Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1994).The sale will also offer the artist’s personal collection of paintings, drawings, fine prints and sculptures by such prominent African American artists as Don Nelson, Paul Goodnight, Karen Johnson, Joel Gresham, Leroy Clarke and Brian Collier. The second session will include a drawing for a book cover by Aubrey Beardsley ($9,000-$10,000), John R. Neill’s painting of Cap’n Bill as a merman ($10,000-$15,000) from L. Frank Baum’s The Sea Fairies , Willy Pogány’s watercolor for A Midsummer's Nights Dream ($12,000-$15,000) and Gustaf Tenggren’s early illustration of Trolls ($10,000-$12,000). <br /><a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-11-30-00-07-09-bloomsbury-auctions-to-offer-fine-illustrated-books-including-the-archive-of-tom-feelings.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29"><br />SOURCE</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-65451418372661754902009-11-11T14:02:00.000-08:002009-11-11T14:10:37.290-08:00ROY DeCARAVA: 1919-2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge9w3wGGv2PL989A6IeI7McXlP2myvqkdjiuXwbCqUjkraIGJJdYws-ENA5yTLD35715BFs3dJmEzdUTpi6MJuvxIzpjAIQ-0UgMJwRcxtMoHM7SyZGMxWzY7fCsQTyPdeI0wAmqK_uIG/s1600-h/decarava_graduation.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge9w3wGGv2PL989A6IeI7McXlP2myvqkdjiuXwbCqUjkraIGJJdYws-ENA5yTLD35715BFs3dJmEzdUTpi6MJuvxIzpjAIQ-0UgMJwRcxtMoHM7SyZGMxWzY7fCsQTyPdeI0wAmqK_uIG/s400/decarava_graduation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402971795498120962" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The photographer Roy DeCarava has died. The great chronicler of 20th century African-American life, especially in New York, DeCarava had a sophisticated aesthetic and a capacious sense of life. As one example of just how sophisticated, check out this picture, which I would say is the work of a man who had thought long and hard about Leger's great painting The City. In 1996 he had a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a wonderful show that I reviewed for Time.<br /><br />Like Cartier-Bresson, DeCarava had an eye for the off-kilter visual intricacies that a photograph can contain within its frame, so that even when he was working in a documentary vein, it was with an acute and unorthodox sense of spatial organization. I think one thing I said about him at the time of that MoMA show still stands:<br /><br /> To the question of what's personal and what's political, what's lyric and what's documentary, he offers back a teasing answer. It all is.<br /></span><br />For more, click <a href="http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2009/10/29/roy-decarava-1919-2009/#more-4120">HERE</a>.THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-56533804419600753562009-11-11T13:45:00.000-08:002009-11-11T13:55:22.153-08:00The Studio Museum | 2009 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize | GLENN LIGON<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswIeC-EH_9sGeThAHw779c7qLgt_uWi6HzsSBJL8JGgVQCnr1rP2k3RykeHh6D3p-QnuSlIkJ1EbfcLiHxbnkRfRDIVHQJq9TUK_OCpj1f_Ke4fyIdczBgmPj1CZNu16hz0kMocDbSdbS/s1600-h/Glenn-Ligon-Warm-Broad-Glow.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswIeC-EH_9sGeThAHw779c7qLgt_uWi6HzsSBJL8JGgVQCnr1rP2k3RykeHh6D3p-QnuSlIkJ1EbfcLiHxbnkRfRDIVHQJq9TUK_OCpj1f_Ke4fyIdczBgmPj1CZNu16hz0kMocDbSdbS/s400/Glenn-Ligon-Warm-Broad-Glow.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402966281984365266" /></a><br /><br />NEW YORK, NY.- The Studio Museum has awarded the 2009 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize to Glenn Ligon. Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden announced the award to over 700 supporters and friends, including George Wein, at the Museum’s Gala 2009 on October 26. Jazz impresario, musician and philanthropist George Wein established the Prize in 2006 to honor his late wife Joyce Alexander Wein, a woman whose life embodied a commitment to the power and possibilities of art and culture. Joyce was a dedicated Trustee of The Studio Museum in Harlem and was deeply involved with philanthropy and the arts throughout her life. Inspired by Joyce’s lifelong support of living artists and envisioned as an extension of the Studio Museum’s mission to support experimentation and excellence in contemporary art, the Wein Prize recognizes and honors the artistic achievements of an African-American artist who demonstrates great innovation, promise and creativity, and includes an unrestricted monetary award of $50,000. Previous recipients include Nadine Robinson (2008), Trenton Doyle Hancock (2007) and Lorna Simpson (2006).<br /><br />A distinguished panel consisting of Eungie Joo, Director and Curator of Public Programs, the New Museum; Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings, the Whitney Museum of American Art; Nancy L. Lane, Trustee and Chair, Acquisition Committee, The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Naomi Beckwith, Assistant Curator, the Studio Museum, met in September to select just one winner from a competitive pool of candidates recommended by nominators nationwide.<br /><br />“In receiving this prize, which is so much in the spirit of both Joyce and George’s longtime support for the arts,” said Glenn Ligon, “I realized that while I sometimes take for granted the things that I do in my studio, other people think deeply about, appreciate and cherish the work I make. I am honored.”<br /><br />A New York-based conceptual artist, Ligon has a wide-ranging art practice in multiple media, including text-based painting, neon, print, installation and video. His work engages social and personal histories, memory, and the ways in which groups and individuals are represented—revealing the complexities and subtleties of social constructs of race, language, sexuality and gender.<br /><br />Born in the Bronx in 1960, Ligon received a BA from Wesleyan University in 1982. In addition to Stranger, his 2001 solo exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem, he has had solo museum exhibitions at the Power House, Memphis (2008); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996); and the Kunstverein München, Germany (2001). His work has been included in numerous national and international group shows, including Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany (2002); the Venice Biennale (1997); and the Whitney Biennial (1991, 1993).<br /><br />Ligon’s work is represented in many public collections, including those of The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In addition, he has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1997) and two National Endowment for the Arts grants (1982, 1989).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-11-10-00-56-21-the-studio-museum-awards-the-2009-joyce-alexander-wein-artist-prize-to-glenn-ligon.html">Source</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-9488399881928518742009-11-11T13:43:00.000-08:002009-11-11T13:44:37.328-08:00Spoonbread Atelier Presents SIGHTscene Photography: RICKY DAY | DAFNA STEINBERG | ANDREW NASON | BILL THORNE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zD-o4-CSMmYqMiyTWz_RP-VALAc2kg2IATMHHHzKo8RAqslcahFbGwG9e5TiOct8NqUJ1GrSNBTLSqZzod6sbY0h3akMIcCJzISri4v8J1ZseZiPBmj5F34h-4Q9lqPJz7wyMORevExD/s1600-h/spoonbreadatelier.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zD-o4-CSMmYqMiyTWz_RP-VALAc2kg2IATMHHHzKo8RAqslcahFbGwG9e5TiOct8NqUJ1GrSNBTLSqZzod6sbY0h3akMIcCJzISri4v8J1ZseZiPBmj5F34h-4Q9lqPJz7wyMORevExD/s400/spoonbreadatelier.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402965061951000610" /></a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-75321354491226614542009-10-24T08:33:00.000-07:002009-10-24T08:42:01.561-07:00ArtCrawl HARLEM | Re-Opening EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO<span style="font-weight:bold;">ARTCRAWL HARLEMTM<br />Celebrates East Harlem Galleries and<br />the Re-opening of El Museo Del Barrio<br /> <br />Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 </span><br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5lM7h8lOJXTY5KxFwm-D8N5QGqR6BlG9nV1wl-9IKAUx7ISBo_yOlV7dEQDxhcQwQJRMfqCTB4JQZjVOk-ZaFX-YPhc2gvZ4adiyF5eJer2ly7Rbm00ROcv126uySJAxwdxL0VKiQA-KR/s1600-h/artcrawlharlem.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5lM7h8lOJXTY5KxFwm-D8N5QGqR6BlG9nV1wl-9IKAUx7ISBo_yOlV7dEQDxhcQwQJRMfqCTB4JQZjVOk-ZaFX-YPhc2gvZ4adiyF5eJer2ly7Rbm00ROcv126uySJAxwdxL0VKiQA-KR/s400/artcrawlharlem.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396191282078082722" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">ArtCrawl Harlem<br /> <br />DATE: November 7, 2009<br />TIME: Trolley Tour 12:30 - 4:30PM<br />Reception following until 6:00PM<br /> <br />PRICE: $55<br />Early Bird Special: $40 - Ends Oct. 30, 2009<br /> <br /> SEATING IS LIMITED <br />BOOK IN ADVANCE AT: <br /><a href="http://www.artcrawlharlem.com">WWW.ARTCRAWLHARLEM.COM</a><br /> or call 800.979.3370<br /><br />Galleries include:<br />El Museo del Barrio<br />My Arte Gallery<br />Poet's Den Gallery<br />MediaNoche<br />TAFA Studios<br />Taller Boricua<br /> </span><br /><br />Imaged credit: The Virgin Mary by Cecilia Moreno Yaghoubi, My Arte Gallery<br /><br /><a href="https://www.zerve.com/TasteHarlem/ArtCrawl">Source</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-85314887209326817932009-10-23T15:45:00.000-07:002009-10-23T15:50:00.636-07:00Museum for African Art | THE PERVASIVE ECHO<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS3rDeQTLVyNpMHq2ZYJ4iwdblj7l5gV6FDqHMIAG2F7Gjb69KDQmuvhMbMwMNTlaq_IDT7xPNM8KiCmsTvHBYbzdcnYxIwlkXc7GAhWpo7MkWvMkuqNQQ3A0VthNszhR6BJlkJMlDfSAy/s1600-h/MFAAperformance.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS3rDeQTLVyNpMHq2ZYJ4iwdblj7l5gV6FDqHMIAG2F7Gjb69KDQmuvhMbMwMNTlaq_IDT7xPNM8KiCmsTvHBYbzdcnYxIwlkXc7GAhWpo7MkWvMkuqNQQ3A0VthNszhR6BJlkJMlDfSAy/s400/MFAAperformance.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395930691900246722" /></a><br /><br /> Vocals: Kathleen Berger as Jenny Lind<br />Master of Ceremonies: John Healarchi<br />Pianist: Cathy Venable<br /> <br />"The Pervasive Echo" is a re-examination of the 19th Century phenomenon that was Jenny Lind, a singer also known at the "Swedish Nightingale." A fragment of Lind's inaugural concert in America will be restaged under unusual circumstances at the same site where she gave this historic concert 159 years ago.<br /> <br />A project by South African artist Ruth Sacks<br />Commissioned and presented by the Museum for African Art and Performa 09<br /><br /> <br />ABOUT PERFORMA 09<br />Performa 09 (November 1-22, 2009) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.<br /><a href="http://www.performa-arts.org"><br />www.performa-arts.org</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-61484042707553750422009-10-23T15:34:00.000-07:002009-10-23T15:41:08.578-07:00Sande Webster Gallery | SAM GILLIAM | WORKS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd9er0DxMDNKBvNb5YbhyphenhyphenIHoSq6jG8J9yR40TFRyIm6_QPLunfI5xg2-zXmRroSeBj9Uty_97Lh4CZCbz70eLKE6cLFCUNbVeBIcfTsbdesJkkszCQAT8GmCAYAO6CNeWA4hM5iyB0cBW/s1600-h/samgilliam.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisd9er0DxMDNKBvNb5YbhyphenhyphenIHoSq6jG8J9yR40TFRyIm6_QPLunfI5xg2-zXmRroSeBj9Uty_97Lh4CZCbz70eLKE6cLFCUNbVeBIcfTsbdesJkkszCQAT8GmCAYAO6CNeWA4hM5iyB0cBW/s400/samgilliam.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395927762442479746" /></a><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;"> SAM GILLIAM<br />Works | In the main gallery<br />DATES > November 6-30, 2009<br />RECEPTION > Friday, November 13, 2009 6-8pm</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Works</span>, continues Gilliam’s process of informed improvisation that balances geometric forms with expressionist gestures. These exuberant and colorful mixed media paintings advance the inventions associated with the Washington Color School and Abstract Expressionism to new levels. Each work is carefully orchestrated like a jazz composition with internal rhythms and harmonies. Gilliam challenges and delights the viewer with a bold and diverse body of work that blurs the line between painting and sculpture. His craft has been perfected over the years to consistently create works of visual beauty, emotional impact and intellectual stimulation. Gilliam is internationally recognized in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musee d’Art Moderne de le Ville de Paris and Tate Gallery, London. The Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioned his first outdoor public work of art and the largest draped painting of his career in 1975. Additional public and private commissions, grants, awards, exhibitions and honorary doctorates are worldwide. He is Washington’s preeminent artist.<br /><br />Imaged credit: Sam Gilliam, <span style="font-style:italic;">Forever Walking</span>, 48” x 23.5” x 7", mixed media/birch, 2009<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">TEL: 215-636-9003 | FAX 215.646.9008 | E-MAIL: artswg@aol.com<br />2006 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103<br /></span><a href="http://www.sandewebstergallery.com">www.sandewebstergallery.com</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-52215825843262607312009-10-23T15:28:00.000-07:002009-10-23T15:34:18.787-07:00KOFI ANNAN | NADAV KANDER<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE49zbEw0tJfFB1i5ggXcCTe3Zplkaw7DlcvtaBwxYP_G96ZGqVmQVKqrmUb0I3639flAmyEgKqqcQlIWEec8jjdBMZSypR74SE4P75spF7h7gt_Wr6yJrZp0s8MHW3LRYvSkdYMh44O6X/s1600-h/Ed_Kashi_Curse_of_the_Black_Gold.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE49zbEw0tJfFB1i5ggXcCTe3Zplkaw7DlcvtaBwxYP_G96ZGqVmQVKqrmUb0I3639flAmyEgKqqcQlIWEec8jjdBMZSypR74SE4P75spF7h7gt_Wr6yJrZp0s8MHW3LRYvSkdYMh44O6X/s400/Ed_Kashi_Curse_of_the_Black_Gold.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395927209766480178" /></a><br /><br />PARIS.- Kofi Annan, Nobel Laureate and former Secretary General of the United Nations, has awarded this year’s prestigious Prix Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability to British based photographer Nadav Kander and a photography commission to American photographer Ed Kashi at the Passage de Retz, Paris. The Prix Pictet is an annual search for photographs that communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance under a broad theme. This year that theme is ‘earth’. Nadav Kander was nominated for his series of photos, Yangtze, The Long River Series, 2006-07, documenting the rapidly changing landscape and communities of China’s Yangtze River, from its mouth to source.<br /><br />The photographers were selected from a shortlist of twelve of the world’s leading photographers: Darren Almond, Christopher Anderson, Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Abbas Kowsari, Yao Lu, Edgar Martins and Chris Steele-Perkins.<br /><br />Making the formal presentation at an awards dinner at the Passage de Retz in Paris, Kofi Annan, honorary president of the Prix Pictet said that the photographs were a compelling call for action to tackle climate change, the most serious humanitarian and environmental challenge facing the world today:<br /><br />“Only weeks separate us from the decisive negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen. We are confronted with the vital need to prepare the political momentum necessary for a fair and effective post-Kyoto agreement. The images in front of us remind us of the fragility of our planet and the damage we have already done. When we see these photographs we cannot close our eyes and remain indifferent. Through our actions and voices, we must keep building the pressure to secure urgent action at Copenhagen and beyond.”<br /><br />Ivan Pictet, Vice President Pictet & Cie said: "In only its second year, the Prix Pictet has established itself as one of the most important prizes in its field. While in naming Nadav Kander the Judges have chosen a very worthy winner, such was the quality of the field that any one of the twelve photographers on the Shortlist could have made it."<br /><br />He added, "On behalf of the Partners of Pictet; I am delighted to announce that we have selected Ed Kashi as the photographer to fulfil Pictet's annual commission related to our charitable activities, this year in Madagascar, a country with a remarkable ecological heritage under threat and one of the poorest countries on earth."<br />Ed Kashi has been commissioned to visit Madagascar with the Azafady team in order to produce a series of photographs that will highlight many of the issues that Azafady are focusing on in this unique and endangered environment. An exhibition of the work made for the commission will launch the 2010 prize in the Spring 2010.<br /><br />Francis Hodgson, Chair of the Judges said “The quality of the entry this year has been exceptional. It has been an honour and a pleasure to try to find a winner from among so many outstanding candidates. The shortlisted photographers set the Jury an immense problem and I am grateful to my fellow judges for their insight, expertise and good humour. The photographers’ determination to be heard is the foundation of everything that the Prix Pictet can achieve. As a result of their great skill the Prix Pictet goes from strength to strength. Although only in its second year it has clearly now found its niche as the world’s premier prize in its sector. The environmental issues which it seeks to address are vital to all of us. That of course only adds to the fascination of being involved.”<br /><br />The prize is complemented by Earth, the book of the 2009 prize. Earth is published by teNeues and includes the work of the 12 shortlisted artists and others nominated for the 2009 prize. All speak of the harmful and often irreversible effects of exploiting the earth’s resources and reflect on the immediate and long-term impact of unsustainable development on communities across the globe. The full portfolios of each shortlisted artist will be shown at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris from 23 October to 24 November. The Prix Pictet will tour to further international venues from late 2009 to early 2010. Venues confirmed for the tour include: the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai and the Eindhoven University of Technology. The Prix Pictet Secretariat is currently reviewing proposals from several major international galleries.<br /><br />Prix Pictet will collaborate with FIAC (22 - 25 October), Paris’ major international contemporary and modern art fair, and Paris Photo, the world’s leading event for photography (19 - 22 November).<br /><a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com"><br />Source<br /> </a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-78291786380272455092009-10-21T14:38:00.000-07:002009-10-21T14:52:40.427-07:00WEEKLY READER | To Conserve A Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0JTTxZcyp9Px-w8JcP1n9gtLUvh_i1S4UFj5weePxfenJ73hLnbjSdveVjZ-0OB0LvtcsfhSnUMRNJmfItGa6P3-u8h3_hSbjnrV5rd2Um9UHOCqpEA97RNSmKI2fwRCwxSpgcroiVj0/s1600-h/legacy-cover-color.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0JTTxZcyp9Px-w8JcP1n9gtLUvh_i1S4UFj5weePxfenJ73hLnbjSdveVjZ-0OB0LvtcsfhSnUMRNJmfItGa6P3-u8h3_hSbjnrV5rd2Um9UHOCqpEA97RNSmKI2fwRCwxSpgcroiVj0/s400/legacy-cover-color.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395172217774198130" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">From Library Journal</span><br />The works in this companion to a traveling exhibition are drawn from collections of American art held by six of the oldest, most prestigious historically black universities (Clark Atlanta, Fisk, Hampton, Howard, North Carolina Central, and Tuskegee). The exhibition proclaims the importance of these hitherto little-known collections, which consist primarily of works by major and minor 19th- and 20th-century African American artists, as well as such well-known modernists as Hartley and O'Keeffe. The text consists of an anthology of essays that discuss the development of the exhibition, the history of the collections, and related conservation issues. Following is an alphabetically arranged biographical catalog of artists featured in the exhibition. The scholarly tone of much of the writing and the emphasis on academic issues will make this somewhat challenging for the general public, but this important book brings to light notable collections that deserve more attention. Highly recommended for academic art libraries.AEugene C. Burt, Art Inst. of Seattle Lib.<br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Review</span><br />"The very existence of these collections will be a surprise to many people, and yet, until very recently, the schools served as the primary patorns for black artists denied access to the mainstream world... In other words, for every famous artist such as Elizabeth Catlett or Romare Bearden, there's a name you don't know, an artist whose work might have disappeared save for the support of these institutions." -- Catherine Fox, Atlanta Constitution, March 18, 1999<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Product Description</span><br />Many of this nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have amassed significant collections of American art and founded galleries and museums on their campuses. These collections provide a rich resource for the study of African American art, yet many also possess a diverse array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. To Conserve a Legacy documents an outstanding sampling of paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures owned by Clark Atlanta University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, North Carolina Central University, and Tuskegee University. This book serves as the catalog for a major exhibition and conservation project organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, in association with the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and the six participating HBCUs. The book contains a profile of each university collection, color reproductions of many artworks included in the exhibition, biographical information on all the represented artists, and documentation of the conservation and care practices helping to preserve the art for future generations. Two major essays place the HBCU art collections and this collaborative project in a historical context and develop six themes around which the exhibition was organized: Forever Free: Emancipation Visualized; The First Americans; Training the Head, the Hand, and the Heart; The American Portrait Gallery; American Expressionism; and Modern Lives, Modern Impulses. The artists include Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Archibald Motley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Horace Pippin, P. H. Polk, Alfred Stieglitz, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Doris Ulmann, Carl Van Vechten, Thomas Waterman, James Weeks, Charles White, and many others. The book also contains forty-two entry essays by American scholars on many of the individual artworks. The exhibition was co-curated by Richard Powell, Chairman of the Art and Art History Department at Duke University, and Jock Reynolds, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com">SOURCE</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-54052741534946858582009-10-21T14:31:00.000-07:002009-10-21T14:37:08.361-07:00The Art of Richard Mayhew |RETROSPECTIVE | MoAD<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiaDzcVaP5KK4xWgIFCMS5UHilCIn45w1xLLHmp2RSaVKu6N54XJv3tui5-90doCRzdcUbqTfG9Zgp2naDG-y1c9ZmzbG3vkGgCXXntRnmehLZrY-cPQP0ptUFBnqyYnCvM9875qkscrpO/s1600-h/richarsnayhew.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiaDzcVaP5KK4xWgIFCMS5UHilCIn45w1xLLHmp2RSaVKu6N54XJv3tui5-90doCRzdcUbqTfG9Zgp2naDG-y1c9ZmzbG3vkGgCXXntRnmehLZrY-cPQP0ptUFBnqyYnCvM9875qkscrpO/s400/richarsnayhew.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395169865215930338" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Art of Richard Mayhew<br />October 10, 2009 – January 10, 2010</span><br /><br /><br />The Art of Richard Mayhew will represent three separate exhibitions presented concurrently at three San Francisco Bay Area institutions: the de Saisset Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Together, the three presentations will provide a complete retrospective exhibition for Richard Mayhew, a nationally recognized, Aptos-based painter.<br /><br />The exhibition of Mayhew's work at MoAD will be the first part of a three-part chronological retrospective of the artist's career. In this exhibition, Mayhew's paintings from the late 1950's through the 1970's, consisting primarily of landscape with some figurative works will be featured. In 1957, Mayhew enjoyed his first solo exhibition as an academically trained artist and announced his unique style of presenting the natural milieu to the New York art world. During the tumultuous period of social and cultural transformation of the 1960s, Mayhew worked as an artist and an activist most notably as a founding member of Spiral, the legendary group of Black artists including Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff, organized in 1963 to address issues of civil rights and racial equality through their art.<br /><br />Through the 1960s and 1970s, Mayhew establishes his career as an artist tirelessly working with a sense of spiritual depth and freedom of color, form, and space. The MoAD exhibition will explore the personal and professional foundations of Mayhew’s style as a young man of African and Native American descent coming of age in New York during the 1950s explosion of Abstract Expressionist art.<br /><br />It will gather together the best of Mayhew's paintings that combine his unique style, philosophy for painting, and synthesis of artistic and social influences that set the trajectory of his artistic career.<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Image credit: Richard Mayhew, Love Bush, 2000, oil on canvas, 47 x 51 inches</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.moadsf.org/exhibits/index.html?id=19">SOURCE</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-12990965227929378912009-10-16T17:22:00.000-07:002009-10-16T17:32:21.662-07:00Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gives Major Gift to New Smithsonian Museum<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xJZgkAUBsDT3OtPrNoAxiDKDutj8ewCdjEzac-LUHkfeuDC4s14IEk3Vxutvq9pB8LwKW0kRzbnfGim_V1gr7fICISMbUEEMdFDY5Yp3n8MYpBDLQ6BrYLvz8tuygtfvtSKwBmPoYFgf/s1600-h/NMAAHC.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xJZgkAUBsDT3OtPrNoAxiDKDutj8ewCdjEzac-LUHkfeuDC4s14IEk3Vxutvq9pB8LwKW0kRzbnfGim_V1gr7fICISMbUEEMdFDY5Yp3n8MYpBDLQ6BrYLvz8tuygtfvtSKwBmPoYFgf/s400/NMAAHC.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393359887540366642" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">WASHINGTON, DC.- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $10 million to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, expected to open in late 2015 on the National Mall in Washington. The purpose of the grant is to support the capital campaign of the new museum, which is raising funds for the design and construction of its building. The building, to be built on a five-acre tract adjacent to the Washington Monument, will be designed by Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup. The design, construction and exhibition installations are expected to cost about $500 million, half provided by congressional funding and the remainder raised by the museum.</span><br /><br />“We are so pleased that the Gates Foundation has joined donors from across the country who have built a groundswell of support for this museum,” said Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the museum. “We recognize this as a vote of confidence and a genuine honor.”<br /><br />The design for the National Museum of African American History and Culture submitted by Freelon Adjaye Bond / SmithGroup. Photo courtesy of Freelon Adjaye Bond / SmithGroup.“The National Museum of African American History and Culture will be a remarkable resource that will ensure that the rich stories and valuable history of African Americans will be available for all,” said Allan Golston, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s United States Program. “The museum will be an important addition to our National Mall, and we are pleased to be joining others at this unique moment in time to support this worthy investment.”<br /><br />The design and engineering team consists of four firms coming together for one of the largest architectural projects in Washington; the firms are the Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates, Davis Brody Bond and SmithGroup. The lead designer is David Adjaye; Philip G. Freelon, FAIA, will serve as design guarantor, making sure the design reflects the values and priorities of the museum and the Smithsonian. Groundbreaking for the 300,000-square-foot building is expected be in 2012.<br /><br />Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.<br /><br />The National Museum of African American History and Culture was established by an Act of Congress in 2003 as the 19th museum of the Smithsonian. It is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art, history and culture. As part of its capital campaign, it has launched a national membership campaign. It is establishing a national identity by hosting exhibitions and educational programming in major cities across the country.<br /><br />The museum’s historians and curators are building a collection—now with more than 9,000 objects—designed to illustrate the major periods of African American history, beginning with its origins in Africa and continuing through slavery, reconstruction, the civil rights era and into the 21st century. Its inaugural exhibition, “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits,” is on a 12-city national tour through 2012. Until its building is completed, the museum is offering exhibitions in its own gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-10-16-02-13-41-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-gives-major-gift-to-new-smithsonian-museum.html">Source</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-12442702191002410192009-10-15T18:20:00.000-07:002009-10-15T18:25:03.301-07:00AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART | NEEDS | YOU!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWPMz4g1-VGdDBKbhhJU9lYxM-L4sRNSaT4IpfXA-G5FkClaM7trggSlvxy7K6YyyunuWai8VdY8kAETpLWRPYhRLQHWgmUXwYGIhfSlob8ZkCZl8XQ1icP004urvdPmiwLmZLoy9mRJQ/s1600-h/Gilliam.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWPMz4g1-VGdDBKbhhJU9lYxM-L4sRNSaT4IpfXA-G5FkClaM7trggSlvxy7K6YyyunuWai8VdY8kAETpLWRPYhRLQHWgmUXwYGIhfSlob8ZkCZl8XQ1icP004urvdPmiwLmZLoy9mRJQ/s400/Gilliam.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393002356391269170" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The US art world is abuzz over the White House campaign to bring a greater diversity to its art collection—including more works by African American artists [the Obamas have been quietly notifying an array of public institutions, dealers and collectors that they are looking to borrow first-rate art of a more recent vintage to display in the White House with an emphasis on works by black, Hispanic, Asian and female artists]. Such a gesture from so influential a place has understandably had a catalytic effect—stirring conversation, raising expectations. And that’s a good thing. The move is also throwing a strong light on African American art and the artists who create it.</span><br /><br />To read the article in its entirety, click <a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/African-American-art-still-needs-support/18560">HERE</a>.THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-61081846478978349662009-10-15T18:15:00.001-07:002009-10-15T18:18:54.294-07:00GRAFF AUCTION| Christies| African Girl (Injabulo) 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbJiO4uj2m455NZgeqSlqPOZ6ek0YoDvR3GftbVWSoSqev6G1EScn-_nCdkd_-hWY7PkfIR2s0XI5lP84d6JWWvPmJhXC2LVgnVBef-zGZ9tEWnPYiD3hSt8GHFHtnLj6On5_bFegRCBS/s1600-h/graffauction.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbJiO4uj2m455NZgeqSlqPOZ6ek0YoDvR3GftbVWSoSqev6G1EScn-_nCdkd_-hWY7PkfIR2s0XI5lP84d6JWWvPmJhXC2LVgnVBef-zGZ9tEWnPYiD3hSt8GHFHtnLj6On5_bFegRCBS/s400/graffauction.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393000480593601778" /></a><br /><br />LONDON—All 26 lots offered at jewelry magnate Laurence Graff’s charity auction of contemporary art at Christie’s Monday evening found buyers, but it’s unclear whether the sale — which precedes the major Frieze-week auctions — may have revealed a little hesitation on the part of bidders nonetheless, good cause and all.<br /><br />Organized in part by the likes of bold-faced names Peter Brant, Uma Thurman, Hugh Grant, Naomi Campbell, and Dasha Zhukova to benefit For Africa’s Children Every Time (FACET), Graff’s recently formed, African-based initiative to aid youths and orphans, the sale realized £767,180 ($1,212,144). No commissions or buyer's premium was charged.<br /><br />As the auction began under the gavel of Christie’s European president, Jussi Pylkkanen, loud strains of Shirley Bassey’s James Bond tune “Diamonds Are Forever” played in the packed King Street salesroom. And, suitably, diamonds figured in two of the evening’s lots: a pair of Khotsa Nala ("Peace Prosperity" in the Basotho language) double hoop earrings in white gold and round diamond pave donated by Graff, which went for £60,000 (est. £60–80,000), and Damien Hirst’s Porter Rhode, a 2009 oil on canvas depicting a famous Graff stone with a tiny trademark Hirst skull embedded in one of its facets, which earned £100,000 (est. £100–150,000). Hirst had donated the work.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Like what you see? Sign up for ARTINFO's weekly newsletter to get the latest on the market, emerging artists, auctions, galleries, museums, and more.</span><br /><br />The evening’s top lot was also artist-donated. Raqib Shaw’s The Mild-Eyed Melancholy of the Lotus Eater (2009), in acrylic, enamel, rhinestones, and glitter paper mounted on aluminum, fetched £200,000 (est. £80–120,000). Both Graff and Shaw’s dealer, Jay Jopling of the White Cube gallery, were under-bidders for the work.<br /><br />And a third artist-donated lot also made a six-figure price: Marc Quinn’s 66¾-by-102¾-inch floral still life, Crest of Mount Vinson (2009), earned £110,000 (est. £80–120,000).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The cover lot, South African artist Lionel Smit’s expressive African Girl (Injabulo) (2009), measuring 90½ by 65 inches, sold for £26,000, lapping its presale estimates of £6–8,000. (Injabulo means “happiness” in Zulu.)</span><br /><br />But Graff, who sat in the first row, as he usually does at non-charity auctions, remained the under-bidder despite polite urgings from the auctioneer.<br /><br />The auction action continues Friday at Christie’s. Stay tuned. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/32935/celebrity-studded-graff-charity-auction-sells-out-at-christies/">Source</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-26063371754430280922009-10-14T14:39:00.001-07:002009-10-14T14:42:03.326-07:00FIRST LOOK | Obamas Select Art for The White House | Slideshow<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo5s92Q15vndEERnUSD3lIY92AMbeBAsR1zTQKEElt9N5ygnFn4iXxV2IKznvWD9r0C2WTD1idGzFsURUhjpFWsTlfjbIZiDJ2_ig8U-3N_iFfmovQUXJPi40_dJ_WitJpj4PnWNPbQuGz/s1600-h/obama4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo5s92Q15vndEERnUSD3lIY92AMbeBAsR1zTQKEElt9N5ygnFn4iXxV2IKznvWD9r0C2WTD1idGzFsURUhjpFWsTlfjbIZiDJ2_ig8U-3N_iFfmovQUXJPi40_dJ_WitJpj4PnWNPbQuGz/s400/obama4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392573671069525970" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1929522,00.html"><br />Here's a slide show </a>we put together of some of the artworks that the Obamas have chosen for the family quarters of the White House and parts of the East and West Wings. There's not much about it that could be called controversial, unless you think that Glenn Ligon's text piece Black Like Me is somehow shocking because it engages the question of race.<br /><br />For more, click HERE<a href="http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2009/10/12/the-long-weekend-2/"></a>.THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-33253626143008846372009-10-14T11:34:00.000-07:002009-10-14T11:38:34.505-07:00HEWITT COLLECTION | Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPkeIWZitNn_1uFN2EtDDEWzJaoTJyGkQtMcaadn2wULcPfZviMVDkeSJWMzIOU8MUnw4W2XnLZaBAx190RW7XCULUu3m7hrEaksmhxQD_H50HeZ6hsIJFQFUYbd6NMAIKVsU760CA40d/s1600-h/Hewitt_Catalogue.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 350px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPkeIWZitNn_1uFN2EtDDEWzJaoTJyGkQtMcaadn2wULcPfZviMVDkeSJWMzIOU8MUnw4W2XnLZaBAx190RW7XCULUu3m7hrEaksmhxQD_H50HeZ6hsIJFQFUYbd6NMAIKVsU760CA40d/s400/Hewitt_Catalogue.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392526443569662610" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Hewitt collection of art has home in Charlotte<br /><br /><br />The Associated Press<br /><br />Tuesday, October 13, 2009<br /><br />CHARLOTTE, N.C. </span>— After spending years traveling the country, a collection of African-American art has a permanent home in Charlotte.<br /><br />The Charlotte Observer reported on its Web site Tuesday that some of the 58 works in the Hewitt Collection went on the walls of the new Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts +Culture over the weekend. The center will open later this month.<br /><br />The collection was purchased in 1998 by NationsBank, the predecessor of Bank of America, and was on tour nationally until the center was ready.<br /><br />It includes works by 20 African-American artists from the 20th century including Charlotte native Romare Bearden. A New York couple, John and Vivian Hewitt, put together the collection.<br /><br />___<br /><br />Information from: The Charlotte Observer, http://<span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.charlotte.com">www.charlotte.com</a></span>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-78651125516549592302009-10-14T11:26:00.000-07:002009-10-14T11:32:34.262-07:00Kurt Kauper | BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3PRbVVIMd3Oh-5-0NCD0duLMHsaZfvJ45K8vg8p3fWPpyoidk_8Ehg2JV5Hik6MNTiEXQK6u1dBosL4-XQn0yrOJFpFeDiwefwHpXE3qoSB7IYjzRgoVK-MNiV6jjY7_10Vj40cpJNj0/s1600-h/barackandmichelleobama_poster.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3PRbVVIMd3Oh-5-0NCD0duLMHsaZfvJ45K8vg8p3fWPpyoidk_8Ehg2JV5Hik6MNTiEXQK6u1dBosL4-XQn0yrOJFpFeDiwefwHpXE3qoSB7IYjzRgoVK-MNiV6jjY7_10Vj40cpJNj0/s400/barackandmichelleobama_poster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392524863790761858" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />October 03, 2009 — October 31, 2009<br />76 Grand Street, New York<br /><br />Kurt Kauper’s portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama are not what one would expect in Presidential portraiture. Kauper is interested in imagery that seems at first to look neutral, in which visual cues do not confirm the expected ideology associated with a visual icon. Kauper wanted to try to make political paintings without didactic content.<br /><br />Thinking about political art, Kauper was influenced by Glitter and Doom, the exhibition of German portraiture in the Weimar era, recently presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kauper was particularly interested in the expressively reticent and narratively mute paintings of Christian Schad, Georg Scholz, and Karl Hubbuch. Their work eschewed the formal and psychological flourishes of Expressionism and Surrealism. Instead they concentrated on cool, uninflected depictions of physical information, but remained persuasive in their ability to embody the extremes of poverty, brutality, nationalism, cultural instability and political fragmentation that defined Europe between the wars.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.deitch.com"><br />SOURCE</a>THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-84175939813066511822009-10-13T16:40:00.000-07:002009-10-13T16:49:05.139-07:00The Allentown Art Museum | A Force for Change: African American Art<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiax-662LHErhHYtGJTIxWAMaewlXm2uvtmaAudhz-iE0l7B0dPIY3Ie2-EKaTX66VLrFCJYjqrw3QJmS9yi2njShTtZmy60-twMk9_rvriq232OvEknYpdpIaPwclhVnS2TX-GGyjRRg-Y/s1600-h/Douglas_Harriet_Tubman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiax-662LHErhHYtGJTIxWAMaewlXm2uvtmaAudhz-iE0l7B0dPIY3Ie2-EKaTX66VLrFCJYjqrw3QJmS9yi2njShTtZmy60-twMk9_rvriq232OvEknYpdpIaPwclhVnS2TX-GGyjRRg-Y/s400/Douglas_Harriet_Tubman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392235134650190018" /></a><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />The Allentown Art Museum will host A Force for Change: African American Art</span><br /><br /><br />Allentown , Pa. – On September 13, 2009 the Allentown Art Museum will present A Force for Change: African American Art and The Julius Rosenwald Fund. This exhibition of African American art is the first to explore the legacy of The Julius Rosenwald Fund, created in 1917 by Chicago businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, who fostered black leadership through the arts, literature and scholarship. The exhibition will feature more than 60 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by over 20 of the artists who were recipients of Rosenwald fellowships during the Fund’s most active years (1928–1948), a watershed period for the advancement of African American art and culture. The exhibition will be on view in the museum’s Kress Gallery from September 13, 2009 through January 10, 2010. <br /><br />The exhibition will feature more than 60 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by over 20 of the artists who were recipients of Rosenwald fellowships during the Fund’s most active years (1928–1948), a watershed period for the advancement of African American art and culture. The exhibition will be on view in the museum’s Kress Gallery from September 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Special exhibition admission price is $7 (plus museum admission) and also includes New Visions: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art , a special exhibition in the Rodale Gallery.<br /><br />Artists represented in the exhibition are among the foremost of their era, including Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper and Augusta Savage, among others. With support from The Rosenwald Fund, these talented and multifaceted artists explored through their work the experiences of African Americans in a time of rapid social change and modern instability. Predominate themes encompass the gulf between North and South, urban and rural, and a search for a lost black past—in some cases, the search for a black essence.<br /><br />An accompanying publication connects the artists’ works to the goals and achievements of The Rosenwald Fund and also emphasizes how the foundation encouraged the black “Chicago Renaissance” of the 1930s and 1940s. This exhibition has been made possible by a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support for this project has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Righteous Persons Foundation, and the Judith Rothschild Foundation.<br /><br />Julius Rosenwald: Innovator in Business and Philanthropy<br /><br />Talk and Book Signing / Sunday, September 13 at 1 p.m.<br /><br />Peter M. Ascoli, the grandson of Julius Rosenwald and author of the biography Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South , will give personal insight into Rosenwald, a Chicago businessman who helped to foster black leadership through the arts, literature, and scholarship. Rosenwald, an unconventional philanthropist who believed firmly in the philosophy of “Give While You Live,” established The Rosenwald Fund in 1917 with the goals of supporting education for blacks in the rural South, finding ways to provide affordable health care for average Americans (Blue Cross Blue Shield was established as a result of some of the Fund’s activities), improving race relations, and providing fellowships to gifted African Americans in a variety of fields. Many of the artists who received fellowships went on to long and distinguished careers, and fine examples of their work may be seen in A Force for Change: African American Art and The Julius Rosenwald Fund . Limited quantities of Ascoli’s book will be available for purchase at the event and a book signing is scheduled to follow the talk. The talk is free to all museum visitors and will be held in the museum auditorium. <br /><br />The Allentown Art Museum will feature the work of some of the finest African American artists of the mid-20th century and of modern and contemporary American photographers in the exhibitions A Force for Change: African American Art and The Julius Rosenwald Fund from September 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010 and New Visions: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art from August 29, 2009 - January 10, 2010 . For more information visit <a href="http://www.allentownartmuseum.org">www.allentownartmuseum.org </a>. <br /><br />SOURCE: AKNTHE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132089165283393035.post-45505995552232098622009-09-28T14:09:00.000-07:002009-09-28T14:18:21.754-07:00SWANN GALLERIES | African-American Fine Art | Auction | 10.08.09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl0wrKPf_XYmEs2Cb9f7rtm400WhKaU38ViRKS7liPMLHSsaFQFmBOicIwwA40TQiRrk-eg_9AemptovuuFfiiAR_g-GGXXB2bX9nKmw3tA8AFdMtJLRGzk6do9bgxGPiyGPH6F5jjjBrn/s1600-h/swannaaartauction2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 371px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl0wrKPf_XYmEs2Cb9f7rtm400WhKaU38ViRKS7liPMLHSsaFQFmBOicIwwA40TQiRrk-eg_9AemptovuuFfiiAR_g-GGXXB2bX9nKmw3tA8AFdMtJLRGzk6do9bgxGPiyGPH6F5jjjBrn/s400/swannaaartauction2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386628531207033778" /></a><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">At Auction: Thursday, October 8th at 2:30 pm<br /><br />AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINE ART<br />Swann Galleries <br /><br /><br />Exhibition Hours:<br /><br />Fri. Oct. 2: 10 - 6<br />Sat. Oct. 3: 10 - 4<br />Mon. Oct. 5: 10 - 6<br />Tue. Oct. 6: 10 - 6<br />Wed. Oct. 7: 10 - 6<br />Thu. Oct. 8: 10 - noon<br /><br />CONTACT:<br />Nigel Freeman, Director<br />African-American Fine Art<br />Swann Auction Galleries<br />212-254-4710 ext. 33 nfreeman@swanngalleries.com<br /><br /><br />Swann Galleries Inc. 104 East 25th Street New York NY 10010<br /><br />tel 212-254-4710 • fax 212-979-1017<br /><br /><a href="http://www.swanngalleries.com">www•swanngalleries•com</a></span><br /><br />Images credits, clockwise from left:<br />Barkley L. Hendricks - Lot 78<br />Norman Lewis - Lot 33<br />James VanDerZee- Lot 13THE NOIR ARTS GALLERYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00856878755951617234noreply@blogger.com0