Photo: Anna Labick slowdanger’s Taylor Knight and Anna Thompson The pandemic has forced nearly everything online, including performing arts that would otherwise take place in front of a live audience. While this has become a necessity, Taylor Knight and Anna Thompson, co-artistic directors of the multidisciplinary performance duo slowdanger, were frustrated with the limitations of going digital. “As a performer, it just makes me sad sometimes to watch a performance online,” says Thompson. “While we have participated in a lot of virtual performing, there s almost a flattening of interaction, where you re kind of passively watching the screen.” The two decided to work with a number of fellow artists from Pittsburgh and around the country to create
On the occasion of the publication of museum strategist András Szántó’s new book,
The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, the author will speak with Sandra Jackson-Dumont, director of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, and Marie-Cécile Zinsou, president and founder of Benin’s Zinsou Foundation, about new models for what a museum can be. Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak will also speak with Victoria Noorthoorn, director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, about how their institutions are adapting to the present moment. The back-to-back talks will stream on Facebook Live, or you can register for the program on Zoom.
Everson Museum of Art announces new acquisitions
Courtney Leonard, Breach #2, 2016. Ceramic on wood pallet, 36 x 36 x 48 inches. Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, Deaccession Fund, 2020.15.
SYRACUSE, NY
.- The Everson Museum of Art announced today that it has purchased seven new works by contemporary artists for its growing collection of 21st century art.
Spanning a variety of media, the new acquisitions reflect the Eversons commitment to refining and diversifying its collection by adding works by artists of color, women artists, and other under-represented emerging and mid-career artists. The works are by artists who hail from across the country, but also include two artists who have lived and worked in Syracuse for decades: Ellen Blalock and Sharif Bey. Blalock previously exhibited her work at the Everson during 2012s The Other New York and Bey will have a major solo exhibition at the Everson in 2022. Its truly an honor to have my work represented in the permane