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Category: museum
US museums face a funding crisis as new generation of donors comes of age
As the baby-boomer generation of major donors pulls back or dies off, museums are struggling to attract their heirs’ interest
… next-gen donors want to tackle big global issues, from climate change to racial justice. And those who do recognise the arts’ ability to strengthen social cohesion, improve health outcomes and encourage critical thinking are likely to eschew legacy institutions in favour of smaller organisations where their money can make a bigger impact.
Source: Julia Halperin, The Art Newspaper 011924
Objects at Rijks Museum
Georgia O’Keeffe
Many Voices, One Diaspora—MoAD: Benefit Auction 2022
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD),based in the San Francisco Bay Area, […] is uniquely positioned as one of the few museums in the world focused exclusively on African Diaspora culture and on presenting the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa and of African descendant cultures across the globe.
Many Voices, One Diaspora is MoAD’s benefit auction. Bidding will be open exclusively on Artsy and will close on Thursday, May 12th at 2:00pm PDT (5:00pm EDT).
Archival pigment print
19 × 13 in
Edition 1/5
Signed and dated in verso
Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo Gallery
Betye Saar at ICA Miami
The Trickster, 1994 Mixed media tableau
All courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
The Trickster features an anthropomorphic metal sculpture adorned with daggers and chains at its center. Set against a backdrop of camouflage netting and a neon lightning bolt, hands appear to be reaching out of the ground, surrounding the sculpture. The installation is flanked by a quote from Zora Neale Hurston: “hoodoo is a blade dat cuts both ways.” In Haitian Vodou as well as the Yoruba and Dahomeyan diaspora, the trickster represents an intermediary, standing at the (spiritual) crossroads between humans and gods. Usually male, Saar’s trickster appears to have female attributes. The figure guards the crossroads for the many hands reaching up from the ground.
Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight, ICA Miami.
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Cuervo and Low-Polygon poem
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
This major exhibition, 29 January – 25 April 2010 at Tate Liverpool, (also traveled to Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, España, July – October 2010) inspired by Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans the Atlantic, connecting Africa, North and South America, The Caribbean and Europe. The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of Black Atlantic culture on Modernism and will reveal how black artists and intellectuals have played a central role in the formation of Modernism from the early twentieth century to today.
I made a post before. But I have recently found the dvd of installation images, dating April 2010.
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Images, courtesy of Tate Liverpool.