By Rea McNamara July 1, 2020 AbTeC Island is a destination in the online world of Second Life that makes an Indigenous future accessible now. Mohawk artist Skawennati founded AbTeC—short for Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace—in 2005. Since then it has gradually grown, acquiring new components and landscapes. A glowing, flowering tree—an allusion to the Celestial Tree from the…
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By Glenn Adamson July 30, 2020 3:23pm “I’m very reluctant to talk about what’s happening now—the hot topic, the outrage of the moment. It seems necessary to ask: how did we get here?” The speaker, artist Kapwani Kiwanga, was in Paris; I was in New York. We did not dwell much, during that May 27 phone conversation,…
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BY ZACHARY SMALL August 4, 2020 2:51pm Artist Vinnie Bagwell could hear pandemonium erupting in the auditorium where seven hours of deliberation imploded as East Harlem residents clashed with New York City officials this past October over which artist’s proposal would be chosen to replace a 19th-century bronze statue honoring J. Marion Sims, the infamous “father of gynecology”…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Aug 3, 2020 • 1:58 pm ONE OF THE MOST THOUGH-PROVOKING figures in contemporary painting, Kenyan artist Michael Armitageprobes the politics and cultural history of East Africa. His fascinating narrative scenes have a mythical quality and abstract tendencies that draw on aesthetic tensions between European traditions and East African modernism. In early July, Armitage told the Times…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Sep 6, 2019 • 11:58 pm LOS ANGELES—A master storyteller, Ernie Barnes (1938-2009) painted from experience. He captured the brawn of football and the quotidian of life in the segregated South. His representational images depict what he saw growing up in Durham, N.C., where black people gathered for communion and competition on porches and basketball…
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Tonia Robertson Walker June 19, 2020 Educate yourself “In 1866, one year after the 13 Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor (peonage). This made the business of arresting Blacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Jul 10, 2020 • 6:58 am THE MUTUAL ADMIRATION between storytellers Zadie Smith and Toyin Ojih Odutola is palpable. The British novelist has written about the Nigerian-born visual artist’s work for British Vogue and contributed an essay to her forthcoming catalog, “Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory,” which will accompany a show at the Barbican Centre in London, the artist’s first-ever UK exhibition. …
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June 19, 2020 under Featured FPWA In The News Antonia Yuille Williams, Director of Regional and Community Affairs, Corporate Affairs for Con Edison Company of New York, assumes role of Board Chair at FPWA June 19, 2020 (New York, NY) FPWA is pleased to announce that Antonia Yuille Williams, Director of Regional and Community Affairs, Corporate Affairs…
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Art Forum News July 07, 2020 at 4:33pm As Covid-19 infection rates climb across the United States following a late-spring letup, some museums are starting to welcome visitors again after months of lockdown. Institutions that are opening their doors include the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Portland Art Museum; and…
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