by Tracy Smith, CBS News. “Like all great artists, she has an understanding, a grasp of what great historical artists are doing, and she’s saying, ‘Okay, I’m gonna turn that around, I’m going to make that my own,’” said Joanne Heyler, founding director of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, home to the exhibition,
by Haja Marie Kanu, avantarte. Conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas explores success, power and oppression, specifically, how these ideas play out in the legacy of African American Olympian, Jesse Owens. “Hank’s upcoming edition “salutes that most famous of his four wins at the 1936 Olympics” – the 100m dash.
by Colony Little, ArtNews. The 1767 Chowan County Courthouse is the site of an installation, Memorable Proof, by artist Letitia Huckaby that is part of the “Harriet Jacobs Project,” an ongoing initiative directed by Michelle Lanier and curated by Johnica Rivers.
Edges of Ailey, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York).
by Stephen Bell, Harpers Bazaar. “Invariably, when people start to garden, they grow food first. But in every civilized civilization that you can think of, where [there] is the garden, it’s because they have enough to eat.
At Film Forum. An explosive 16-film fest of the freshest, funkiest and foxiest flicks from the revolutionary ’70s film movement.
Nicola Vassel Gallery. Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle’s creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as a way to battle anti-blackness. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, currently living and working in Glasgow, her work encompasses drawing, digital collage, film and video installation, sculpture, performance, and writing.
A Multimedia Stage Play Inspired by the Music of Melvin Van Peebles The trailblazing work of director Melvin Van Peebles (Watermelon Man, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song) made him an iconoclastic legend and one of the most influential filmmakers of the 1970’s.
Wadsworth Atheneum’s exhibition Styling Identities: Hair’s Tangled Histories aims to tell a story about what hair means to us—to our individual staff, to our museum, and to our Hartford communities.
Curated by Mark Sealy. “Offering a rare and reflective insight into the seminal South African photographer Ernest Cole, A Lens in Exile is the first exhibition of his photographs documenting New York City during the height of the civil rights movement in America.