Arlington exhibition will showcase 30 world-famous Black artists Feb 5, 2021, 9:17 am A work by Kehinde Wiley will be part of the exhibition but likely not his portrait of Barack Obama.
Image courtesy of Kehinde Wiley The Arlington Museum of Art is set to host the landmark traveling exhibition 30 Americans this summer. Described in a release as showcasing works by 30 emerging and established African American artists of the last three decades, the list of artists on display includes marquee names like
Kara Walker, Perhaps the most noteworthy of all is
Kehinde Wiley, who famously was chosen to paint the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. (The Obamas portraits won t be in the Arlington exhibition, but they will be on view at a Houston museum in 2022.)
Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America Nadja Sayej
At a time when black Americans are twice as likely to die of Covid-19 as their white counterparts while a reckoning continues over ongoing police brutality, a new group exhibition is opening to tell the story of black grief in America, from the 1960s to present day.
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America opens 17 February at the New Museum in New York City, featuring 37 artists whose work ties into loss linked to racial violence – including artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
Exhibition of new works on paper by Jason Moran on view at Luhring Augustine
Jason Moran: The Sound Will Tell You, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York (January 16 February 27, 2021).
NEW YORK, NY
.-Luhring Augustine is presenting The Sound Will Tell You, a presentation of new works on paper by Jason Moran, which marks the gallerys second exhibition with the artist. Internationally renowned as a jazz pianist and composer, Morans interdisciplinary and often collaborative visual art practice mines the history of music, and its social, cultural, and political subtexts.
To create these vibrant and textured works, Moran places a sheet of Japanese Gampi paper on a piano and records his various attacks on the keys. The motion of his hands is tracked in layered lines of saturated pigment, and washes of color spill across the compositions, tracing the pull of gravity, or charting the creases and natural fibers of the paper. Recalling traditions of gestural abstraction and automat
In Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum allows visitors to peruse the museum’s permanent collection as it hangs on the walls or view each work individually there are over 13,000 pieces from which to choose.
Phillips announces private Italian collection Out of the Blue: Works from The Collection of Enea Righi
Alighiero Boetti, Senza titolo (1977 per 1978), 1977-78. Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON
.-Phillips announced a remarkable group of 27 works from the collection of renowned Italian private collector Enea Righi. Out of the Blue: Works from The Collection of Enea Righi showcases superlative examples of 20th century and contemporary art across a rich variety of media. Important works by Alighiero Boetti sit alongside paintings by Glenn Ligon and Anselm Kiefer, an iconic LED installation by Jenny Holzer, a floor sculpture by Carl Andre, and photographic work by Louise Lawler. Out of the Blue is a leading highlight of Phillips Spring season in London and will be offered for sale on 24 March.