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:
…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 in the signifier, as on their relations of difference, manifested at the level of the signified.
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 &
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.
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.
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:
Pageants of Grief: Handling Loss in the works of Donald Glover, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko & serpentwithfeet by Adam Patterson
Sometimes is not a good thing to cry too long. My man is dead yes. But not all the crying in the world going to bring him back.
Querying Accountability: Meshaun Labrone presents Spook at Capital Fringe Festival
Spook the latest production from playwright/actor Meshaun Labrone is a provocative fictional account about police officer, Daryl “Spook” Spokane, who is tried and convicted of murdering five of his fellow officers.
Red Bull Arts Detroit: Artist Residency, Visiting Curator & Writer Fellowships, and Micro-Grant Program
Above: Resident Artists Lucia Hierro, Gina Goico, Joiri Minaya. Detroit MI 2018 // Red Bull Arts Detroit Red Bull is proud to announce the expansion of its contemporary arts program with the renaming of Red Bull Arts Detroit and the first Selection Committee for its expanded residency program, which will begin in 2019.
Sundance Institute’s Theatre Directors Retreat in Arles: Fellows Announced
Sundance Institute today announced the five directors who will gather at the annual Sundance Institute | Luma Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat in Arles, France, from July 12-23, 2018.
Studio Visit: The Spirit Behind the Signs with Victor Ekpuk
This past April, I met painter Victor Ekpuk (Nigerian, born 1964) after his presentation and panel discussion at Howard University’s Porter Colloquium, a Black art conference.
‘The Peculiar Patriot’ Wins $100,000 Art for Justice Grant
The Peculiar Patriot, Liza Jessie Peterson’s one-woman takedown of the criminal justice system, has been acknowledged with a grant of $100,000 from the Art for Justice Fund, a five-year initiative that aims to turn art into action, investing more than $100 million into strategic efforts to reform the criminal justice system.
The Classical Theatre of Harlem Presents “ANTIGONE” Afropunk Inspired Work Featuring the Voice of a Defiant Woman That Challenges Patriarchal Society
Above: Alexandria King as Antigone. Photo by Sean McCoy. The Classical Theatre of Harlem (Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director) presents “Antigone,” inspired by Paul Roche’s adaptation from the classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles.
Paint it “Primitive Electric”: Artist LeRoi Debuts at Art Santa Fe 2018
Acclaimed New York-based artist LeRoi debuts at the international contemporary art show Art Santa Fe July 12th – 15th, 2018 with Colored People, an expressive series of figurative paintings that poetically consider human identity through primitivistic gesture.
On Kentucky Avenue Back by Popular Demand at City College Center for the Arts
Historic Club Harlem will roar back to life as City College Center for the Arts (CCCA) presents a special three-week return engagement of On Kentucky Avenue:
The Gardner Museum and artist Steve Locke Honor Freddie Gray
For the Façade of the Gardner Museum, former Artist-in-Residence Steve Locke created Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray), which addresses issues of race and violence in America today.
Opportunity: Digital Earth offers fellowships for Africa and Asia based Artists
Digital Earth is a 6 month-long fellowship for artists and designers based in Africa or Asia, working across a variety of media, who would like to investigate our current technological reality.
SITE Santa Fe Announces Artists
Above: Untitled by Sable Elyse Smith. SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce the participating artists and new commissions (*) for the upcoming SITElines.2018 Biennial opening on August 3, 2018.
MAXXI Presents African Metropolis. An Imaginary City and Road to Justice
Above: Ebony Dakar edition ( its a numbers game). Mixed media collage on paper 70 cm 100 cm , 2014 by Godfried Donkor.
The Knockdown Center Presents Morir Soñando
“Hein Koh, Eyes Without a Face (detail) (2017). Acrylic, brass chain, felt, fiberfill, glitter, spandex, string, vinyl, 89” x 72” x 12””
