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ART Talk | EXPLORING THE DIRTY SOUTH
Register For Free Afternoon Discussion ARTnews Event Details: June 23, 2021, 4 PM CST / 5 PM CST Event Info: Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Sydney and Francis Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in Richmond, discusses her latest trailblazing exhibition, “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material…
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ART Quote| Sonya Sanchez Demands Your Attention: Deal With Art Black
“The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the ‘Negro’s’ reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.” — Sonia Sanchez Image Credit: Sonia Sanchez Reading at Northern Virginia Community College 2013, 20 March 2013, 17:45:57, Photographer: Slowking4
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ART Film | “Passage” by Saint Heron for the International Woolmark Prize 2021
The International Woolmark Prize and Saint Heron Agency present ‘Passage’ – a motion portraiture and celebration of the six 2021 International Woolmark Prize finalists. Created and written by Solange Knowles for Saint Heron Agency, and directed by McArthur Award-winning director Wu Tsang, the work draws from the masterful styling of Ib Kamara and an original…
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ART exposition | Inside the Digital Repository: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Description: “CONTRACT OF FICTION BETWEEN JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT AND HELMUT AL DIEZ” The duo of SAMO©, which consisted of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his friend Helmut Al Diaz, wrote enigmatic epigrams and short phrases on the walls of Manhattan. Note: Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who was part of the Neo-Expressionist movement in the 1980s. He…
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ART Festival | 2021 Austin African American Book Festival
I AM A REVOLUTIONARY: Stories of Resistance and Resilience Austin African American Book Festival The New York Times columnist Charles Blow will be the featured speaker at the 15th annual Austin African American Book Festival held June 26, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will again be virtual and remains free, but attendees must…
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Art Writing | Call for Papers — Crop and Bleed
Crop and Bleed: An Information Studies Reader on New Boundaries in Critical Print and Visual Culture Editors: Robert D. Montoya (UCLA; California Rare Book School), Sean E. Pessin (California State University, Northridge; CSUN Book Arts Lab) As recent discussions of the global nature of the book have taken shape among bibliographical and print culture scholars (Boehmer,…
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ART Literary | Inprint & the Houston Museum of African American Culture present:
Free Literary Event Inprint Houston & the Houston Museum of African American Culture Presents: Pulitzer Prize winnerANNETTE GORDON-REED in honor of JuneteenthMonday, June 21, 7 pm CTFor free tickets and more information, click here. Please note that this livestream event will be viewable directly on the Inprint website. The link to view the reading will be…
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ART CALL | A.R.T. 2021 New York Archives Week Symposium
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ART Scholarship | Apply! Dewey Lee Curtis Scholarships, Fall Symposium in Salem, MA
Apply Today! The Decorative Arts Trust is now accepting applications for Dewey Lee Curtis Scholarships to attend our Fall Symposium in Salem, MA. Graduate students and young professionals in the decorative arts and related fields are invited to apply by August 4. Scholarships cover the full cost of symposium registration, lodging, and a modest travel…
