I love this so much. Color!
“Bisa Butler’s portrait quilts vividly capture personal and historical narratives of Black life…Her quilts present an expansive view of history through their engagement with themes such as family, community, migration, the promise of youth, and artistic and intellectual legacies. ”
(Image: The Safety Patrol, 2018, Bisa Butler)
*From the AIC exhibit
The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.
“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”
The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC
(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)
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Closed for 2 years, the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, has reopened.
It is one of many museums in the DC area, but this one is special because it “is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.”
Created in 1987,with more “than 4,000 works, NMWA’s wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly”.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Avenue and 13th Street, NW, DC
(“Cuatro Pescaditos”, Graciela Iturbide – Oaxaca, Mexico, 1986)
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Ansel Adams in Our Time: The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, CA presents a group of more than 100 pieces of his work.
“Laid out in seven sections tracing Adams’s artistic development, the exhibition features some of his most-loved photographs, including images of Yosemite, San Francisco, and the American Southwest.”
Ansel Adams in Our Time
Until July 23, 2023
Image : Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite ~ Ansel Adams, 1902 – 1984
“Museum of the African Diaspora is proud to present “Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison”, an exhibition of the work of twelve artists incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison…”
They have also provided notes about themselves and their work.
Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
(Image: Gentle Giants, Antwan “Banks” Williams)
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“Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared”
“The DMA presents the first solo museum exhibition of works by Naudline Pierre, whose vividly hued paintings portray opaque, otherworldly narratives through depictions of supernatural beings entangled in complex scenes of struggle and intimacy.”
Dallas Museum of Art / DMA
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas
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