Art Jenny Slate On ‘The Sunlit Night,’ Addressing Racism And Her Hopes For Art After The Pandemic Jenny Slate as Frances. The Sunlit Night arrives on VOD from Quiver Distribution on July 17, 2020 Eirik Evjen If you’re looking for something beautiful to watch while at home, look no further than Rebecca Dinerstein’s The Sunlit Night, which comes out on Video on Demand July 17th. While the film in no way directly […] Written by imesocial July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
Art Relationship Between Cultural Giants James Baldwin And Beauford Delaney Explored In Depth For First Time At Knoxville Museum Of Art James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney, Paris, circa 1960. Photographer anonymous, photo cropped. Estate of Beauford Delaney As America reckons with its racist history in a way it never has previously, the wisdom of James Baldwin (1924-1987) resurfaces. His novel, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film from 2018. An unfinished […] Written by imesocial July 9, 2020July 9, 2020
Art Starting Blocks For Transatlantic Slave Trade Explored By Artist Paa Joe At High Museum Of Art Paa Joe (Ghanaian, born 1947), ‘[Fort] Gross – Friedrichsburg – Princetown.’ 1683 Brandenburg, 1717 … [+] – 24 Ahanta, 1724 Neths, 1872 Britain, 2004 – 2005 and 2017, emele wood and enamel. Peabody Essex Museum, gift of Jack Shainman Gallery, 2019.58.2 . Photo © Paa Joe, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Art With Sotheby’s $363.2 Million Sale, Art Market Passes First Major Test Of Pandemic The words “The auction of the future is here,” flashed across the screen during the glitzy introductory video to Sotheby’s $363.2 million sale of Contemporary, Impressionist and Modern art in New York last night, the first major test of the global art market since the coronavirus pandemic began in March. Sure enough, with collectors unable […] Written by imesocial June 30, 2020June 30, 2020
Art Travel and Living In Rome, Street Art Is On The Rise Scooteroma, a Vespa tour company in Rome, has designed street art tours in the Eternal City. Jared Chuba Street Art has been a prominent aspect of Rome’s urban fabric for decades, with murals, tags and stickers prominently displayed on shopfronts, metro-lines and apartment buildings. But while it emerged largely spontaneously in the past, the city […] Written by imesocial June 30, 2020June 30, 2020
Art London’s Museums And Galleries Reopen With Timed Entry And Space To Appreciate Art After nearly four months when the only people who could appreciate their treasures were security guards and the occasional curator, London’s leading museums and galleries are starting to reopen. For those who attend, social distancing practices, and reduced numbers offers the chance to see world famous paintings in remarkably uncrowded circumstances. But prior planning will […] Written by imesocial June 30, 2020June 30, 2020
Art ‘Infinite Seed’ Brings Collectiving Healing To East Hampton Through Art Artist Lia Chavez performs The Order of Things on June 20, 2020 for the opening of Infinite Seed at … [+] Bhumi Farms. Courtesy of the artist An ethereal figure stood in the middle of the field on the first Saturday afternoon of summer. One by one, she instructed participants to take a deep breath […] Written by imesocial June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
Art CoronaVirus Despite COVID-19, BMW And Art Basel Announce Art Journey Winner Leelee Chan is the ninth BMW Art Journey winner Capsule Shanghai Gallery Can ancient materials and their future substitutes from the fields of nanotechnology and biotechnology inform our debate around ecological and cultural sustainability? This is the premise behind the latest BMW Art Journey project. Artist Leelee Chan’s “Tokens From Time” involves a journey to […] Written by imesocial June 25, 2020June 25, 2020
Art Jay Laber’s ‘Reborn Rez Wrecks’ Turns Junk Cars Beautiful At Missoula Art Museum Jay Laber, “Sentinel 2,” mixed media found objects. Missoula Art Museum In June of 1964, floods ravaged the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana killing 31 people. It has been called the state’s worst natural disaster. The flooding swept Jay Laber and his family all the way to New Hampshire where they relocated after losing everything to […] Written by imesocial June 21, 2020June 21, 2020
Art The Most Famous Collector Of African American Art Is Using The Past To Reframe A Better Future For more than 40 years, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey have amassed one of the largest private collections of Black paintings, letters, books and other artifacts to teach the next generations what history has erased. Bernard Kinsey was born to educate. His father, Ulysses B. Kinsey, was the living embodiment of W.E.B. DuBois’ philosophy that a […] Written by imesocial June 19, 2020June 19, 2020
