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.
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.
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.
The Apollo Theater Announces the Fall Lineup for APOLLO MUSIC CAFÉ Including The Hamiltones
The Apollo Theater today announced details for its 2018-2019 Fall/Winter lineup for Apollo Music Café, part of its Late Nights at the Apollo. The Apollo Music Café presents forward-thinking, innovative artists and features diverse performances across a myriad of genres: R&B, hip-hop, soul, jazz, pop, funk, and rock.
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.
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.
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.
Random Thoughts on Random Acts (of Flyness)
There are so many people, places and things within Random Acts of Flyness, all seemingly coming straight from creator Terence Nance’s imagination.
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.
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.
RED STRIPE DELIVERS MUSIC AND OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH NEW GLOBAL CAMPAIGN – “STAND FOR YOUR STRIPE”
From delectable dishes to tropical, homegrown music, the tiny island of Jamaica has long since proven itself to be a powerful force that continues to shine its light of influence across the world.
Call for applications 2019: MPhil/PhD Fine Art
The Slade School of Fine Art will be welcoming MPhil/PhD applications for 2019 entry. The Slade is a vibrant, world leading, international art school at the forefront of art education and with an established history of excellence in research.
Call for applications: Cinematic Arts and Studio Residency programs
In addition to its signature Studio Residency Program, ArtCenter will now support two Miami filmmakers through its first Cinematic Arts Residency.
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;
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 as a painter.
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 &
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 a much needed change to take place.
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 &
