by Sandy | Oct 22, 2012 | Art, Blogroll, Education, Exhibits, Photograhy
I love the Schomburg, it always has something going on. Currently, it celebrates one of our most famous photographers and film makers with Gordon Parks: 100 Moments
This event “…celebrates a photographer who transformed the visual story of America with his ever-questioning lens, highlighting—in particular—the significance of Parks’s photographs from the early 1940s. 100 Moments focuses on Parks’s photographic practice of documenting African Americans in Harlem and Washington, D.C., during a pivotal time in U.S. history. These photographs were taken when both cities were going through significant changes—arising from post-WW II urban migration, the expansion of the black press, concern for children’s education, and entrenched segregation and economic discrimination. “ 
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY
FYI: The Schomburg Library was the vision of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Of African/ Puerto Rican descent, he recognized the need to consolidate the culture, history and art of people of color. His collection was absorbed into the New York Public Library system after his death in 1938. It became a part of the “Division of Negro History” at the 135th Street Branch.
by Sandy | Sep 17, 2012 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
The Cleveland Museum of Art offers a retrospective, “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video” thru September 2013.
“The first section of the exhibition will feature selections from the 1980s and early 1990s that were inspired by the artist’s direct experiences and observations. The next section will feature works made in response to historical situations that have impacted African American identity, as well as that of other disempowered peoples. A third grouping will contain photographs that focus on the role of place in Weems’s examination of the underlying causes and effects of racism, slavery, and imperialism… A notion of universality is present throughout: while African Americans are typically her primary subjects, Weems wants “people of color to stand for the human multitudes” and for her art to resonate with audiences of all races.”
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
The Cleveland Museum of Art Until September 2013
11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio
by Bob Martin | Mar 29, 2012 | Art, Photograhy
The Art of Hank Keneally
Until April 26th 2012
by Sandy | Feb 29, 2012 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is showcasing, “Modernist Photography: 1910–1950”.
“…this exhibition focuses on the concept that the camera was, in many respects, the ideal tool for modernist artists of the day and that this new camera “vision” resulted in some of the most truly groundbreaking work to have been produced in any medium.”
“Modernist Photography: 1910–1950”- Until April 1, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
(Images: Margaret Bourke White, “The American Way of Life, 1937 and Ansel Adams, “Rose and Driftwood”, 1932)
by Bob Martin | Sep 23, 2011 | Art, Galleries, Museums, Photograhy
Children with Doll - Gordon Parks
It is a common practice to revise history or at least the telling of it (Michele Bachmann on slavery) so that it justifies the needs of the powerful. To understand the prominence of the United States of America in the world it is necessary to understand the history of the African in America, their contribution to the wealth of the nation and its cost. Preserving the truth, artists (through their work) have left us images and stories that invite wonder.
James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks and Roy DeCarava are just a few artists who left us with incredible imagery that grabs our attention about the past and correctly makes no prediction about the future.
Until November 6, 2011, at the Norton Photography Gallery – Phoenix Museum of Art, Gordon Parks’ “Bare Witness”, a record of the 20th-century and the “unfulfilled promise of equality for African-Americans” will be on view. Much of the pain of the 20th century still exists, this exhibit and others like it serve to educate and lessen the hurt.
by Bob Martin | Jun 30, 2011 | Art, Exhibits, Galleries, Museums, Photograhy
Until August 21, 2011, “Faces, Places and Spaces”, a collection of photographic works of art that show the “creative energies and output of amazing artists rooted in African-American life and culture” will be highlighted.
“This exhibition, exclusive to the Harvey B. Gantt Center, offers viewers insight into the range of Moutoussamy-Ashe’s interests and observations as an artist. We see imagery from the African, Asian, and North American continents, from the 1980s, and as recently as March 2011. She muses about herself and the people she has encountered.”
The Harvey B. Gantt Center For African-American Arts & Culture, consistently, have exhibits that I want to see and I need to plot a way for myself to get to Charlotte, NC.
