Kerry James Marshall, Campfire Girls, 1995, Acrylic and collage on unstretched canvas 103 × 114 inches (261.6 × 289.6 cm).
On loan from the De Ying Foundation, at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Was in Mastry ( which was at the Met).
You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Feminist Art Coalition, a platform for art projects informed by feminisms*. FAC fosters collaborations between arts institutions that aim to make public their commitment to social justice and structural change. It seeks to generate cultural awareness of feminist thought, experience, and action.
Notes on Feminisms, a series of newly commissioned essays : Saidiya Hartman – The Plot of Her Undoing .
Participating Institutions, includes Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) with My Body, My Rules, October 9, 2020–May 9, 2021. and Women Photographers International Congress, a symposium, November 19–20, 2020, led by Aldeide Delgado.
“Working collectively, various art museums and nonprofit institutions from across the United States will present a series of concurrent events—including commissions, exhibitions, performances, talks, and symposia—over the course of three months (September–November) in the fall of 2020, during the run-up to the next presidential election. This strategic endeavor takes feminist thought and practice as its point of departure and considers art as a catalyst for discourse and civic engagement.
Motivated by the ethical imperative to effect change and promote equality within our institutions and beyond, these collective projects will advocate for inclusive and equitable access to social, cultural, and economic resources for people of all genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, classes, ages, and abilities. This cooperative effort stages a range of projects that together generate a cultural space for engagement, reflection, and action, while recognizing the constellation of differences and multiplicity among feminisms.“
Terremoto published a review of Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox
” … a key driver of the exhibition is the theory that colonialism has continued to exist in other forms, and is in fact spreading through the export of soft power, the use of military force, the control of international financial and banking mechanisms, as well as the increase in globalization.”
Zoe Samudzi‘s A Caribbean Present Steeped in a Colonial Past reviewed Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox for Hyperallergic. The show curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Dexter Wimberly , currently, at the Museum of the African Diaspora, through August 11, 2019.
The emergent themes of the show can be broadly cast into three categories (though none of the artists fit singularly into any one): corporeality (interpretations of politics around the body), place (examinations of place, space, and time), and religion and spirituality.
A profile of artist Nari Ward on PBS; Ward’s show at the New Museum.
Untitled (We find moments in the landscape, ripe for replenishment, and in positions conducive to imagine anew)
Installation of photographs, prints, drawings, and wallpainting.
Installation views at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam.
The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat at the Guggenheim.
an act of astonishing fortitude that carved out a space of sanctuary and autonomy in defiance of an unjust reality.
The title is drawn from the writings of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897).
La construcción de lo posible.
via cac_wilfredo_lam T and IG.
Curatorial team – Margarita González Llorente, Jorge Alfonso García, Nelson Herrera Ysla, José Manuel Noceda, Ibis Hernández, Margarita Sánchez, Lisset Alonso Compte, and Pepe Fernández; via La Jiribilla.
“Entre las instituciones que acogerán la 13 Bienal estarán el propio Centro Wifredo Lam, el Pabellón Cuba, el Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, la Fototeca de Cuba, buena parte de la red de instituciones culturales de la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí y la Galería Villa Manuela de la Uneac, a los que se suman otros espacios urbanos.” via Granma.
Related : A call for solidarity against Decree 349. Background. Miami Herald on the decree. Miami Herald on Cuba (122718).