Virtual Art in Focus: Norma Minkowitz, “Goodbye Goddess”
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield, CT, United StatesOur Virtual Art in Focus series offers the opportunity for a close look at a single work of art, all from the comfort of your home! Join us for a discussion of “Goodbye Goddess,” a mixed-media work by Norma Minkowitz and part of the temporary exhibition “Norma Minkowitz: Body to Soul,” on view in the […]
Gallery Talk: Hannah Höch’s Critical Photomontage
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn this talk, curator Lynette Roth examines a newly acquired photomontage by Berlin Dadaist Hannah Höch. In Ancient Runners Frieze (1930), Höch juxtaposes images of African, Egyptian, and European people and art objects culled from illustrated magazines and newspapers to call attention to gender stereotypes and the pervasiveness of racist and colonialist ideas in interwar Germany and […]
Darrel Ellis: A Curatorial Conversation (off-site program)
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Harvard University 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts for a conversation with curators about the exhibition Please Stay Home: Darrel Ellis in Dialogue with Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan. Centered on a less recognized body of Ellis’s work and featuring new commissions by Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan, this special exhibition is guest curated by Makeda […]
In-Person and Virtual Crafting a Better Future: The Renwick 50th Anniversary Symposium
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesThe exhibition This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases the dynamic landscape of American craft today. This symposium, organized in conjunction with the exhibition, highlights the role that artists play in our world to spark essential conversations, stories of resilience, and methods of activism—showing us a more relational and empathetic world. Led by SAAM […]
Clifford Thompson: Painting Story opening reception
Blue Mountain Gallery 547 W 27th St, Suite 200, New York, NY, United StatesClifford Thompson is an African American artist (some have called him an outsider artist) whose work has been compared to that of Jacob Lawrence. The title “Painting Story” is meant to capture a feature of his work that a number of people have remarked on: the storytelling aspects of the paintings. (Thompson is the author […]