On Thursday, a trio of statues was unveiled in Union Square, depicting civil rights leader John Lewis, and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who were killed by police. They will remain on view—placed in front of the park’s permanent George Washington monument—through October 30th, before moving on to other cities. At the end of the tour, they will be auctioned off, with proceeds going to charities linked to each. The public art installation is called SEEINJUSTICE, and each 10-foot-tall piece was created by artist Chris Carnabuci from precision-cut wood, and coated with bronze paint. Carnabuci said, “As a result of the death of George Floyd, there came a global awareness and understanding of the plague of injustice across the world. The exhibit represents this global understanding, and from understanding comes action, and from action comes change.” The pieces are supported by the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation, and the families of…
Opening reception for the exhibitions: Thursday, September 9th, from 6-8 PM at both gallery spaces. Jack Shainman Gallery is thrilled to present two exhibitions by Tyler Mitchell at our Chelsea locations, opening Thursday, September 9th from 6-8pm. These are Mitchell’s first solo exhibitions with the gallery and continue his legacy of making images that explore the histories of intimacy and meanings of home within Black communities. Dreaming in Real Time, on view at our 20th Street gallery, is a new series by Mitchell that visualizes scenes of peace, solitude and belonging for Black people in the pastoral American South. During the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mitchell was unable to see his family in his native state of Georgia. The distance and isolation led him to start dreaming of home. When he was able to return, he created new images of subjects in the Atlanta-metro area that consider historic and contemporary notions of refuge, repose and rootedness. …
Since March 2020, the London-based artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has been working on the longest continuous-running project of his career. Living through one of the most turbulent, monumental periods in history, Akomfrah has turned his attention to the creation of a filmic archive of today, made in real-time, documenting how individuals and communities have been coping with the pandemic, the radical mobilization seen on the streets and the disruption of cycles of racism, and the increasingly urgent crisis of climate change. Culminating in a new three-screen video installation, this body of work is a deep exploration into our understanding of the personal within a collective consciousness of emergency, portraiture, mortality, revenge, mourning and memory. Akomfrah has gained acclaim for engaging with the most pressing global questions concerning us today — from the destruction of our fragile global environments, to post-colonialism and the specters of those past histories; from memory as literal archive, to…
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the selection of the 2021 Robert…
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