Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Girok (Knot Record). Installation view, Lehmann Maupin Seoul, February 18 April 24, 2021. Photo by OnArt Studio. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
SEOUL
.-Lehmann Maupin is presenting Quipu Girok, an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña featuring her first painted quipu, a recent video, hand-painted prints, drawings, and an installation of precarios that will engage a dialogue between Korean and Andean textile traditions and techniques. An artist, filmmaker, poet, and activist based in New York, Vicuñas work ranges from performance, to painting, to poetry, to large-scale installations that address pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. The exhibition marks Vicuñas second with the gallery and is her first solo presentation
Queer and feminist artists of the Asian diaspora in new exhibit at SF s Chinese Culture Center
Huang Meng Wen, Suits and Corsages, 2015 -ongoing. Courtesy of the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- WOMEN我們: From Her to Here is an art exhibition and series of public programs that explores agency and belonging in queer and feminist communities. On view at San Franciscos Chinese Culture Center February 19 - August 28, 2021, the group exhibition, centered on Asian diasporic perspectives, features video and film works, mixed media installation, photography, painting, and more by a diverse array of LGBTQ+ and women artists and art collectives from the Bay Area, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and beyond. Several new works have been commissioned for this exhibition.
American Craft Council unveils reimagined American Craft Magazine
Magazine to feature more visual storytelling and modern design.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
.-The American Craft Council announced that its launching its newly redesigned American Craft magazine. The magazines new editor, Karen Olson, helped reimagine the award-winning publication, which will be released in four issues per year, following the themes: Nourish, Flourish, Kinship, and Wonder. In addition to taking on a fresh, modern look, the magazines content will focus on telling the stories of the people, processes, and materials behind the craft community.
The restyled magazine examines how craft and its artists shape American life with a focus on visual storytelling. The publication will include three main sections: (1) New + Noteworthy, (2) a series of feature articles, and (3) The Crafted Life, which highlights the voices of artists themselves offering insight, advice, and experiences both in and out of the studio
Heroic Korean War George Cross fetches world record price of £280,000 at Dix Noonan Webb
An extremely important George Cross for the Korean War was being sold on behalf of the family, who are based in Bristol, and was expected to fetch £140,000-180,000.
LONDON
.- An extremely important George Cross for the Korean War - awarded posthumously to Lieutenant T. E. Waters of the West Yorkshire Regiment, who was attached to 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment sold today (Wednesday, February 17, 2021) for a world record price of £280,000 (Hammer price) by Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. It was being sold on behalf of the family, who are based in Bristol, and was expected to fetch £140,000-180,000. It was bought by a Private Collector on the phone after fierce competition between three telephone bidders.
Abraham Lincoln s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recording included in exhibition
The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation - Page 4.
ALBANY, NY
.- The New York State Museum and the New York State Writers Institute have partnered to bring the First Step to Freedom exhibit to the University at Albany campus in honor of Black History Month, State Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa announced today. The historically remarkable exhibit includes a display of the only surviving version of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in President Abraham Lincolns handwriting. The First Step to Freedom also includes the only known audio recording of a speech written and delivered by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New York City in September 1962 for the Proclamations centennial. The exhibit opened, appropriately, on Presidents Day and will be open to UAlbany students, faculty and staff through March 15.