CLIP ART: Thelma Golden & Duro Olowu / Ebony magazine / September 2011

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSHUA BRIGHT

Clipped from the September 2011 issue of Ebony magazine. Spousals Golden and Olowu list their favorite items of choice from fashion and accessories to food and travel destinations. The issue also features an article on Fisk University's Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern European and American Art which was donated to the historic university in 1949 by Georgia O'Keefe.

Read more in the September 2011 issue of Ebony magazine on newsstands now!

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EVENT: "Bearden Plays Bearden" Film Screening / Studio Museum in Harlem / August 11, 2011

Thursday August 11th 7:00pm

Summer of Music: Harlem Outdoor Music and Screening Series

  

The Maysles Cinema Presents

 

In Honor of the Centennial of Romare Bearden's birth, September 2, 1911.

The Studio Museum in Harlem In Collaboration with the Maysles

Cinema Presents:

 @ The Courtyard at the Studio Museum 

144 West 125th Street

7:00pm Music:
DJ Ski Hi
(100 years of music)

8:30pm Screening:
Bearden Plays Bearden
Billie Allen and Nelson E Breen, 1981, 60 min.

Features conversations with Ntozake Shange and Joseph Campbell,among others, about Romare Bearden and his legacy as well as Bearden's own observations and time with him in his studio. A painter, collagist, muralist, and set designer whose influence reverberates still, Romare Bearden, one of the founders of the Studio Museum and a featured artist in the current exhibition Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective, is widely recognized as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

Food and drink will be available for purchase in the Atrium Cafe.

Maysles Cinema | 343 Lenox Ave/ Malcolm X Blvd. | New York | NY | 12345

The Maysles Cinema was founded by documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles 

and is co-directed by Jessica Green and Philip Maysles.

Links:

studiomuseum.org

mayslesinstitute.org

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HOT LINKS: August 8, 2011

Online stories that captured the attention of BlackArtistNews over the past few days:

A Typical Black Bottom Home by Ian Weaver

Ian Weaver: SBMA exhibit creates neighborhood's story

(South Bend Tribune)

Radcliffe Bailey Opening Gala Photos

Black Harvest Film Festival opens in Chicago

Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2011-2012 Artists In Residence and Welcomes New Assistant Curator

ArtCrawl Harlem helps to discover hidden artwork

Artists pay tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat at Harlem museum Exhibit

"We're the Unsung Heroes": Hear the Remarkable Stories of the Art Handlers on the Sotheby's Picket Line

Kalup Linzy: The Art of Being a Character

(NY Times)

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MEDIA NEWS: Studio Museum in Harlem Receives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Image: Adam Reich

The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced the creation of The Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fund. Made possible by a three-year, $1,000,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Curatorial Fund will support the Museum’s landmark curatorial program.

Studio Museum Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden says, “This grant represents an exciting new chapter at the Museum, a profound investment that will stoke the framework of our entire institutional structure. The Fund’s vital support will advance research, scholarship and publications, the three programmatic branches that form the core of the Museum’s activities. By investing in the essence of our mission—exhibiting, documenting and facilitating dialogue about art by artists of African descent, the Mellon Curatorial Fund will enrich our programming and help us better serve our diverse audience base locally, nationally and internationally. We are honored by the Mellon Foundation’s recognition and generosity.”

The establishment of The Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fund allows the Studio Museum to look anew at the historic role of its curatorial program, which includes a stellar list of exhibitions—from historical surveys to edgy contemporary shows, large group exhibitions to significant mid-career retrospectives—all of which collectively have supported generations of artists and leading scholars.

The Studio Museum in Harlem

144 West 125th Street

New York, NY 10027

studiomuseum.org

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POSE: Naomi Beckwith / Associate Curator / Studio Museum In Harlem / T Magazine / December 4, 2010

Naomi Beckwith, Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem recently showed off her art world swirl  for The New York Times T Magazine:

Photograph by Sebastian Kim. Fashion Editor: Andreas Kokkino. Hair by Andre Gunn at the Wall Group. Makeup by Stevie Huynh at the Wall Group. Fashion assistants: Adam Ballheim, Jean Hall and Guillaume Harrison.

The Times isn't the first to document Beckwith's self-described "Tomboy-Femme" chic on camera. In early 2010, she sported attire for a J. Crew catalog:

Read more about Naomi Beckwith at:
http://ybpguide.com/2010/10/13/naomi-beckwith-black-arts-newest-it-girl/

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POST: Studio Museum in Harlem / Things We Love / November 29, 2010

Things We Love   Posted by Dominic Hackley November 29, 2010 3:09 pm

The Undefeated Billboard Project

Sanford Biggers

The Undefeated Billboard Project selects contemporary artists to create an artwork for a large billboard that sits atop the Undefeated store on Los Angeles’ La Brea Boulevard. Sanford Biggers, one of last season’s Harlem Postcard artists, is the most recent artist to be selected. Past artists include Studio Museum alums Gary Simmons and Kehinde Wiley.  I interviewed Sanford about the project and got the inside scoop...

How was the collaboration between you and the Undefeated Billboard Project initiated?

I was in Brasil on another project when I received an email from Sarah Cohen, the curator of the Undefeated Billboard project. She is a collector of my work and we share several mutual friends yet have never met in person. She told me about the project and asked if I had any images that might work. Until then I'd been by the shop several times over the years, but didn't know her connection to it.

Describe the image and tell us your inspiration behind the artwork?

The image is from a 2007 sculpture of a big, red-lipped smile entitled "Cheshire", which refers to both Lewis Carrol’s infamous cat and the iconic grin of blackface minstrelsy. It is exhibited hanging from a tree or the ceiling. The sculpture also plays a starring role in the video "Shuffle" which I shot in Stuttgart, Germany and Salvador do Bahia, Brasil. The teeth and lips of Cheshire light up in random patterns creating a carnival-esque atmosphere.

How does “Cheshire” fit in to your larger body of work?

One tendency in my work takes problematic images and references to US and world history (slavery, blackface, lynching etc), and attempts to transcend their gravity, horror and psychological vestiges. Through visually and conceptually compelling installations, videos and performances, I challenge our traditional reading of history. Cheshire is a direct example of this approach.

What was the level of involvement of Undefeated’s creative team with this project?

The creative team was quite open, supplying me only with site and printing specs. We all agreed immediately on the best image for the project.

Do you have a particular affinity for sneakers or interest in sneaker design?

I'm a b-boy from back in the day. I don't rock sneaks like I used to but stay up on the latest designs and names.

http://www.studiomuseum.org/studio-blog/checkout/things-we-love/the-undefeated-billboard-project-sanford-biggers

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