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Installation view, Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond at Skidmore s Tang Museum.
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)
Marina Abramović,
The Hero (Family story of my father who was a hero in the Second World War in Yugoslavia) (2001). Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
Mabou Mines Announces New Members on the Eve of its 51st Season
These new appointments fortify, for the future, the cornerstones of Mabou Mines’ half-century of history.by BWW News Desk
Mabou Mines today has announced a group of multidisciplinary artists whose work affirms the company s 51-year history of collaboration and experimentation. Co-Artistic Directors Karen Kandel, Sharon Ann Fogarty, Mallory Catlett, and Carl Hancock Rux welcome new Associate Artists and members in a new category: Senior Artistic Associates. Together, they exemplify Mabou Mines intergenerational model.
These new appointments fortify, for the future, the cornerstones of Mabou Mines half-century of history: a wide network of artists and a commitment to cross-disciplinary collaboration. The new Associate Artists are media designer and performer Tei Blow; interdisciplinary artist Perel; performing artist David Thomson; and MacArthur Fellowship-winning multidisciplinary artist Carrie Mae Weems. Each bri
9 articles to revisit: Learn about local Black history and presence every month
1. Learn about the history of the Black Cultural Center at the University of Oregon
In 2015, the Black Student Task Force on the University of Oregon campus gave the administration a list of 12 demands. The group wanted changes that would better reflect an environment that was safe and accepting of Black students, and that worked toward the UO’s stated mission of promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.
Some of those demands were never met. But one that was met four years later brings a significant change to campus.
In 2019, history was made at the UO when the long-awaited Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center opened to cheers of the students who had long fought for it.
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. (Photo by Stu Rosner)
This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Bridget R. Cooks, and Darby English.
One cannot consider the present-day field of African American art history without mention of Sarah Lewis. The associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University whose groundbreaking Vision & Justice project has become a part of Harvard’s core art history curriculum is a force to be reckoned with.
With her widely watched 2017 TEDX Talk on visual imagery as a change agent for narratives of Black life, Lewis argued that the power of photography can affect our perceptions of justice, reshaping our understanding of society. She has served both on Obama’s National Arts Policy Committee and as a curatorial advisor for Brooklyn’s high-profile Barcl