Juana Valdes: The Colored Bone China

Above: Juana Valdes, Black Sapphire Colored Bone China Rag, 2017. Porcelain bone china fired 1234c, 24 x 16 x 8 inches. The Herter Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts is pleased to present The Colored Bone China, an exhibition of new work by faculty member, Juana Valdes. A professor in the Department of Art, Valdes uses printmaking, photography,...

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Modern African-American Artists Shine in October 4 Swann Sale

Above: Lot 78: Charles White, Nobody Knows My Name #1, charcoal and crayon on illustration board, 1965. Estimate $100,000 to $150,000. African-American Fine Art sales at Swann Galleries offer the opportunity to see marketplace history happen, and the October 4 auction is no exception, with a significant selection of works by Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor and...

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HIDDEN GEMS: A Blind Date for Artists and Collectors by Dominique Clayton

The exterior during the INCOGNITO benefit art sale at the Institute of Contemporary Art on September 8, 2018, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Dominique Clayton) Last Saturday, I attended INCOGNITO, a benefit art sale and in celebration of the one year anniversary of the new downtown location of the Institute of Contemporary Art...

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ECADC Presents the Gallerists Master Course

This fall the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) is presenting the fourth edition of its Gallerist Master Course in Tallinn, Estonia, offering training for both practicing and emerging gallerists. Under the guidance of John Riepenhoff (The Green Gallery, Milwaukee), Hanna Laura Kaljo (independent curator, London), and Mathieu Borysevicz (BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai), course participants will learn...

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JASMINE WAHI OF PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE CURATES ALUMNI EXHIBITION AT YOUNGARTS – OPENING OCT 9

National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) is thrilled to announce today, during National Arts in Education Week, its fall exhibition curated by Project for Empty Space’s Jasmine Wahi titled Education as the Practice of Freedom. The exhibition, featuring works by 20 YoungArts alumni from 1987 through 2018, will open to the public with a reception on October...

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ICA Miami Presents Symposium on Frantz Fanon

Above: Frantz Fanon Xavier Célanie Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami presents a daylong investigation into the life and works of renowned post-colonial theorist and philosopher Frantz Fanon. This symposium, hosted at ICA Miami, convenes a panel of theorists, historians, and cultural studies scholars to explore how the writings of Fanon have profoundly influenced generations...

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Artist Profile: Nadia Wolff

Nadia Wolff is currently in a dual enrollment academic program with RISD and Brown University. The artist is focused in Africana Studies at Brown has brought the artist into contact with professors that are helping the artist formulate the intellectual foundation of the artist’s practice. At RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) Wolff has focused...

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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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…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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