Openings and Closings: February 24 to March 2 Elizabeth Lanza
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
February 24, 6 PM EST
From elaborate table settings that included spoons specifically used for certain jellies to the 20th-century invention of the TV dinner, it is safe to say that the way we dine in the Western world has changed drastically. The Chrysler Museum of Art is hosting a virtual program,
The Post-Revolution Evolution of Dining in America and Great Britain, during which Colonial Williamsburg’s senior curator of metals Janine Skerry will take attendees on a journey through time that traces the evolution from “service à la Française” to “service à la Russe”. The event, which is free to all, must be accessed through a Zoom link which you can sign up to receive in your email inbox here.
Paul Anthony Smith Explores the Inherited Legacies of Caribbean Ancestry
Jack Shainman Gallery // February 25, 2021 - April 03, 2021
February 17, 2021 | in Photography
Featuring his singular pictoage on pigment prints, Paul Anthony Smith s latest exhibition,
Tradewinds, at Jack Shainman Gallery explores the artist s Caribbean lineage and the legacies inherited throughout generations. Largely departing from his use of fence, breeze block, and brick overlays, Smith’s picotage patterning in this new series is rendered far more ambiguous and organic.
Considering both his own familiar histories, along with the global impact of this past year’s pandemic and racial justice uprising, Smith questions the stories that are told about people’s lives and deaths. Why were those of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor rendered infinitely more significant after they left this earth; and how do we intentionally celebrate and actively see humanity while we are still here? The personal memor
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Kwame Brathwaite,
A school for one of the many modeling groups that had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s, ca. 1966
Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
Featured - February 11, 2021
Carrie Mae Weems,
Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press
To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. Photographed by Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard University professor Louis Agassiz in 1850, the images were rediscovered at Harvard’s Peabody Museu
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