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 The New Bikini Museum Bares (Almost) Everything Brigitte Bardot caused a sensation at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival in a tight, flower-patterned … [+] bikini, © AURIMAGES Bikini Museum The world’s first bikini museum is opening in the small town of Bad-Rappenau in Germany on July 5, which is International Bikini Day. The Bikini Art Museum is the first world museum devoted to bathing culture, set in a 19th […] Written by imesocial July 4, 2020July 4, 2020
Art I Scream. You Scream. The Meltdown At The Museum Of Ice Cream Maryellis Bunn, 28, built a business that promised customers happiness, sprinkles and ice cream. The playground-meets-art installation was an instant hit with the Instagram generation. But ex-employees say that a darker reality lives under the gauzy filters. Amid the complete disruption of brick-and-mortar commerce over the past decade, social media generated a highly-ironic byproduct: the […] Written by imesocial July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Art Catalina Island Museum Introduces Audiences To ‘Gyotaku’ Through Artist Dwight Hwang Catalina Island Museum, “Soot & Water” exhibition gallery image. Catalina Island Museum An historic art from learned in the most modern of ways. “A whole lot of Japanese YouTube because I didn’t have anyone to teach me outright,” Dwight Hwang told Forbes.com about how he learned the process of traditional Japanese gyotaku printmaking. “It was […] Written by imesocial June 26, 2020June 26, 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
