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“Activity” by Herbert Gentry. The 1975 oil-on-line painting is one of 31 works by Black artists recently gifted to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Pamela Joyner and Alfred Giuffrida. Photo: SFMOMA
It’s the kind of major gift that can help reshape a museum’s collection.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced on March 11 that it had received a gift of 31 works, including paintings, sculptures and drawings, by 20 African American artists from the Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection. The collection has been celebrated in books and exhibitions as one of the most significant holdings of intergenerational abstract art of the African Diaspora.
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Tribute to Vision & Justice Project and Founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
Frieze New York galleries and institutions respond to: ‘How are the arts responsible for disrupting, complicating, or shifting narratives of visual representation in the public realm?’
A central strand of Frieze New York 2021 programming is the Tribute to the
Vision & Justice Project and its founder, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Associate Professor at Harvard University). The Tribute will honour the exemplary work of the Vision & Justice Project, through an unprecedented engagement with the community of galleries participating at Frieze New York at The Shed and Frieze Viewing Room.
The Vision & Justice Project is rooted in education and is dedicated to examining art’s central role in understanding the relationship between race and citizenship in the United States. The intention of the Tribute is to explore this examination and expand the reach of the Vision & Justice Project, in o
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Lands a Major Gift of Work by Black American Artists From Pamela Joyner and Alfred Giuffrida
The donated works are primarily by artists born before 1930.
Pamela Joyner. Photo: Drew Altizer.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is having a very good week. Just a few days after re-opening, following more than three months of a second lockdown, the museum has announced a landmark gift of 31 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by 20 American artists from the prestigious Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection, known for its extensive focus on abstract work made by artists of the African diaspora.