WATERBURY â The Mattatuck Museum invites the public to preview A Face Like Mine, a major exhibition organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a new installation of work by artist Jeanne Silverthorne from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 2 on the Green at 144 West Main St. Remarks by Director Bob Burns and Museum Curator Dr. Cynthia Roznoy will be broadcast on Facebook Live at 2 p.m. for those who cannot attend in person.
Filmmaker Mya Sareeâ Gray will be screening an excerpt of her original documentary, A Face Like Mine from 1 to 3 p.m. and teaching artists will be on site to preview summer workshops @ The MATT for both adults and kids. There is a fee for non-members of the museum.
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Portraits reveal many truths about the human condition â how we present ourselves to the world. Bey explores the dialogue between sitter and subject.
Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an International Center of Photography Infinity Award winner. He has received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the MacArthur Fellowship (aka a âgenius grantâ) and has exhibited at the George Eastman House, the Walker Art Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and many more. His latest show is
Waterbury s Mattatuck Museum opens A Face Like Mine May 2
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Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), Supermodel, 1994, Acrylic and collage on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The John Axelrod Collection Frank B. Bemis Fund, Charles H. Bayley Fund, and the Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection, 2011.1825,Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Jeanne Silverthorne (b. 1950), Purple Fluorescent, 2013 Platinum silicone rubber, fluorescent pigment, wire, 24 ¼ x 20 ½ x 5 in.Courtesy of the artist and Marc Straus Gallery / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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WATERBURY The Mattatuck Museum inviteS the public to preview “A Face Like Mine”, a major exhibition organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a new installation of work by artist Jeanne Silverthorne, 1-3 p.m. May 2.
Allon Schoener, 95, Dies; Curator Caught in Furor Over âHarlemâ Show
His âHarlem on My Mindâ exhibit at the Met museum in 1969 drew protests for not including works by Black artists. But since then itâs been reconsidered.
Allon Schoener, second from left, with staff members of the âHarlem on My Mindâ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969. With him, from left, were Reginald McGhee, Lelia Nelson and Donald Haynes. Credit.Sam Falk/The New York Times
April 23, 2021Updated 4:27 p.m. ET
Allon Schoener, the curator who organized the Metropolitan Museum of Artâs infamous âHarlem on My Mindâ show in 1969, which caused protests that stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue because it didnât include any paintings or sculptures by Black artists, died on April 8 in Los Angeles. He was 95.
Artist Dawoud Bey on 6 of His Photos That Pushed His Work Forward Vulture.com 2 days ago Sasha Bonét
Dawoud Bey’s work is both a documentation and an excavation. The photographer is preoccupied with history and its effects on our contemporary experience, chronicling the America that resides largely in the shadows and bringing it closer to the center. Often depicting Black subjects, Bey understands that the collective aches we feel today are the remnants of yesterday’s agony, attesting to poet Audre Lorde’s verse: “And there are no new pains.”
On April 17, Bey’s retrospective exhibition “An American Project” opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with photographs made over the nearly five decades of the native New Yorker’s career. In Bey’s 35-mm camera images, his Polaroid portraits, and his large-format landscapes, we feel both the passion and contempt that he holds for his complicated country: In a street corner filled with rubbish,