How Afrofuturism Can Heal Divides Between Black and Asian Communities |
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By Rohan Zhou-Lee
Gorgeous vintage women stand in black and white. Each has a face part Afro, part African. Other women, in vibrant colors, stand in kimonos wearing locs and afros. These are Rujunko Pugh’s Transference and Iona Rozeal Brown’s …you opened my eyes man, thought i had a man, but how could i eye scan…, respectively. Both series, while widely interpreted as Afrofuturism, take Japanese influence. For Pugh, who is of the Afro Asian Diaspora, it is to explore her African American and Japanese heritage. Pugh works across various media including printmaking, installation, paste-ups (street art) and murals, her art draws on Japanese, African and African-American found imagery.
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Galerie Myrtis presents "The Afro‐Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined"
at the 2022 Venice Biennale-affiliated exhibition
“Personal Structures: Time, Space and Existence”
At the invitation of the European Cultural Centre-Italy, Galerie Myrtiswill participate in the 2022 Venice-Biennale Art exhibition Personal Structures: Time, Space, Existence in Venice, Italy. The exhibition runs from April 23 to November 27, 2022. Featured artists include Tawny Chatmon, Larry Cook, Morel Doucet, Monica Ikegwu, M. Scott Johnson, Delita Martin, Arvie Smith, and Felandus Thames.
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After All That, We Still Stand When (Black Lives Look Blue) No. 9 by Morel Doucet, (Mylar, aerosol paint, Ink, coffee) Indigenous flora and fauna, Framed: 38.75" x 30.75," 2022, Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Myrtis.
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Pastoral Scenes / Ahmad in Pastiglia by Tawny Chatmon, 24k gold leaf, acrylic, semi-precious stones, glass on archival pigment print, Framed: 57.5" x 45.5," 2021-2022, Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Myrtis.
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Meet Generative Multilogue at the Ninth Edition of EXPO CHICAGO, APRIL 7-10, 2022
Generative Multilogue is a social enterprise at the intersection of art and technology, dedicated to tokenization of creativity for the purpose of art philanthropy that supports cultural outputs about dialogue and empathy.
Generative Multilogue brings together artists and audiences who create dialogue and empathy. The artwork (digital, analog and collaborative) is marketed both in-person and online.
Our first project will be at Art Expo Chicago where we will present a taboo breaking cultural diplomacy project that involves the women artists from Afghanistan, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Palestine. We will present both physical art work as well as a collaborative digital project about the common challenges of being a woman from these different countries today.
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On Faith: Harlem
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Faith Ringgold: American People,” this panel discussion explores the enduring influence of Harlem on Ringgold’s life and work and the impact she has had on the neighborhood's creative community. Featuring Director of Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling Rob Fields, Director and CEO of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and Sandra Jackson-Dumont, writer and professor Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and artist Nari Ward
Image - Faith Ringgold, Black Light Series #7: Ego Painting, 1969. Front cover of Faith Ringgold: American People, edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Phaidon, 2022
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At 85 Years Old, Longtime Detroit Artist Gets a Show of Her Own
Artist Shirley Woodson has seen Detroit through it all. In 1936, her family moved to the city’s north side when Woodson was just three months old. She earned art degrees at Wayne State University in Midtown and, over her six-decades-long career as a professional artist and arts educator in the city, steadily championed Detroit’s thriving Black arts scene, her colleagues say.
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Cleopatra was found in a dusty mall storage room outside Chicago in the late 1980s — wedged in among discarded Christmas decorations, covered in graffiti and house paint.
The 3,000-pound neoclassical marble sculpture depicting the death of the Egyptian queen had once been among the most prominent artworks entered into Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Its creator, Edmonia Lewis, was both praised and condemned for capturing the royal’s suicide in such heart-stopping detail. From the New York Post
Above -“The Death of Cleopatra”
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Netflix releases docuseries - The Andy Warhol Diaries
If you passed Andy Warhol on the street today, you’d instantly recognize him. The late artist’s white, bowl-cut wigs and extra-large specs were just as noticeable as his Pop art canvases. Yet he was a deliberately mysterious figure who rarely shared details of his personal life. “I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do,” Warhol would tell reporters. A new Netflix docuseries, The Andy Warhol Diaries (released today), aims to delve further into the influential artist’s mind.
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The marble and terracotta versions of Why Born Enslaved! (above) form the centrepieces of a new exhibition at the Met that is unlike anything ever mounted at the institution in its history. Titled “Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast,” this small but potent show opened last week.
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Peace Place - Digital Print |
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PIGMENT INTERNATIONAL IS HEADED TO THE VENICE BIENNALE |
Pigment International has been granted press access for the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s (ICA) U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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