Black Contemporary Art Online
Aesthetica teams up with ISE-DA â a trailblazing platform promoting Black visual arts culture â to highlight the best digital exhibitions, online galleries and videos. Established for young creatives, collectors and enthusiasts of Black African descent, ISE-DA aims to cultivate a pioneering new generation of creatives who are interested, invested and informed about art across the Diaspora. February is Black History Month in the US; many of their selected links are essential resources to educate and inspire.
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Afrosoul celebrates an emerging, global 21st century African Diasporic visual culture. Featured above is work by Cuban artist Rene Pena (b. 1957), whose photography is characterised by stark contrasts and a focus on individuality. Other creatives include Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959), whose renowned installations incorporate portraits of anonymous African Americans from between the Emancipation Proclamation and t
G. Allen Johnson February 5, 2021Updated: February 11, 2021, 3:03 pm
Jimmie Fails (left) and Jonathan Majors star in “The Last Black Man in San Francisco.” Photo: David Moir, A24
With the Sundance Film Festival in its rearview mirror, Fort Mason Flix announced its schedule for the rest of February, including Black History Month events such as “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” family animated favorites such as “Shrek” and “Cars,” and recent films such as “Tenet” and “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).”
The schedule through Sunday, Feb. 14, has already sold out, but tickets, priced at $49 per carload, for programs from Feb. 16 (“Shrek,” “Back to the Future”) through Feb. 28 (“The Princess and the Frog,” “Creed”) are available at fortmason.org/flix.
Nina Simone,
Stevie Wonder, the
B.B. King, and other legendary soul artists.
“It has always been a dream of mine to direct films and telling this story has truly been an amazing experience,” Questlove said in a statement. “I am overwhelmed and honored by the reception the film is receiving and want to give special thanks to Sundance, and my production partners: Radical Media, Vulcan Productions, Concordia, Play/Action Pictures and LarryBilly Productions.”
Summer of Soul made its world premiere at Sundance, which went virtual this year due to the pandemic.
The awards ceremony marks a key point of the 2021 Festival, where 73 feature-length and 50 short films selected from more than 14,000 submissions were showcased online via the Festival’s custom-built online platform, as well as in 28 Satellite Screen locations across the United States.
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Sundance is ending exactly as it began: with the virtual equivalent of a standing ovation for the film that kicked off the whole fest. Last night, organizers handed out their annual Jury and Audience awards (the ceremony, naturally held via video chat this year, was hosted by Patton Oswalt), and to almost no one’s surprise, the big winner is
Coda, Siân Heder’s unabashed crowd-pleaser about a teenager who’s the only hearing member of her family.
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Coda, the first film that became available to watch through the fest’s virtual screening system last Thursday night, picked up both the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic Feature (effectively, Sundance’s Best Picture) and the Audience Award for the same. This is actually fairly common at a festival where hype spreads like wildfire and jurors seem plenty susceptible to the readings of the invisible clap-o-meter that hangs over the Eccles Theater. (Last year,
CODA has won the top award at the Sundance Film Festival, taking this year's U.S. Grand Jury prize, while Questlove's Summer of Soul won both the audience and grand jury prize in the U.S. documentary section.