HBO Announces Documentary Lineup for the Second Half of 2018

HBO has confirmed a fresh array of thought-provoking documentaries for the second half of 2018, including Susan Lacy’s JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS, the intimate story of an icon; Nathaniel Kahn’s THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING, an insider’s look at today’s money-driven art world; Kate Davis and David Heilbroner’s SAY HER NAME: THE LIFE AND DEATH...

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Abstract Truths: A Studio Visit with Contemporary Artist Gregory Coates

Above: Talk with my own Hand’/ Not fabricated Digital photo 2017 by Gregory Coates. “My work is about a search for truth, who I am, and why I do what I do.” – Gregory Coates Despite gaining recognition as an abstract expressionist for his bold sculptures, installations, and assemblages, Gregory Coates primarily defines himself...

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Karen Village, Home of CNN’s Ocean Sole welcomes Art Noise Kenyan Residents

Karen Village, home of CNN Africa’s Ocean sole welcomes Art Noise Nigeria to ensure that its art residents experience a complete and authentic Kenyan & African Art, Culture and Heritage experience similar to one it has given to CNN’s Ocean’s Sole. In 2017, CNN brought into media focus a Kenyan Artist collective which was putting...

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What Will it Take for the Gun Violence to End? Vision Films Presents the Incredibly Powerful and Socially Relevant Film, JASON’S LETTER Available on DVD/VOD on August 1

Vision Films and Diamond Mind Media Group are proud to present the provocative new drama, Jason’s Letter. At a time when gun control is a highly controversial and much talked about topic in the United States, the must-see film, written and directed by Terrance Tykeem is sure to provoke conversation regarding what it takes for...

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Opportunity: Proposals for Art Jameel Commissions: Arts Writing and Research

Art Jameel, an independent organisation that supports arts, education and heritage in the Middle East, today announces an open call for proposals to Art Jameel Commissions: Arts Writing and Research. Art Jameel invites applications from writers, critics, art historians, curators and artists whose primary medium is writing, with a mandate to support the development of...

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…Only a Fool looks at the Finger: On the 10th Berlin Biennale by Adam Patterson

Above: We’ve Got The Whole World In Our Hands, Collage by Isaiah Lopez, 2018. We see here the most subtle and perhaps the most profound trace of an extended engagement between two separate and distinct yet profoundly—even inextricably—related orders of meaning dependent precisely as much for their confrontation on relations of identity, manifested...

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Pageants of Grief (III): Finding God Elsewhere with serpentwithfeet by Adam Patterson

Above: serpentwithfeet, “soil,” album cover art, 2018. This essay is the third chapter of the series, “Pageants of Grief: Handling Loss in the works of Donald Glover, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko & serpentwithfeet.” Calling God “Sir,” was not patriarchal, but it was a way of slapping the enslaver in the face and saying, “You’re...

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Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby

Above: Devan Shimoyama, Tasha, 2018, Courtesy of the artist. The Andy Warhol Museum announces Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, opening October 13, 2018. Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby will mark the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter, and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career, this exhibition includes painting, photography and...

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The Beauty of the Specific: Painter Raelis Vasquez Redefines a Labor of Love by Daniel Dunson

Above: The Future and Its Circumstances, Oil on canvas, 2017 by Raelis Vasquez. All images courtesy of the artist. This past winter in Chicago seemed as if it would never end. Days upon days of dreary colorless cold plagued the region and left its residents to search for warmth in rather creative ways. Admittedly, both...

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Pageants of Grief (II): Staging Libation with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko by Adam Patterson

Above: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, “Séancers,” performance, 2017. Photo: Julieanne Harris This essay is the second chapter of the series, “Pageants of Grief: Handling Loss in the works of Donald Glover, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko & serpentwithfeet.” [R]itualistic reconstructions of the past […] attempt to bridge the gap of history through imaginative remembering. This theatre of memory...

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