Friday at Frieze New York
Digital talks, screenings and highlights from Frieze New York s programming
Begin the day by browsing Frieze Viewing Room. Accessible from anywhere in the world and connecting you to the best of contemporary art.
Explore virtual booths by galleries from all around the world, including a solo presentation of
Esther Pearl Watson (Vielmetter Los Angeles), works by Chinese artist
Ding Yi (Timothy Taylor) and Helina Metaferia (Addis Fine Art); murals by
Victoria Lomasko (Edel Assanti), ceramics by
Erin Jane Nelson (Chapter NY), alongside many others.
Esther Pearl Watson,
November 1, La Fiesta Party Supply, 2020. Acrylic on panel. Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
30 Black Women Trailblazing Visual Representation and Racial Justice frieze.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frieze.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Colby Chamberlain on the art of Dave McKenzie
Bobblehead from Dave McKenzie’s
While Supplies Last, 2003, performance, poly-resin figures, 7 × 2 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄2 .
“I KNOW YOU ARE DAVE, but who is Dave?” Sixteen years ago, in these pages, the artist Glenn Ligon recounted how a stranger once posed this question to Dave McKenzie’s face. Or rather, she posed it to a papier-mâché approximation of his face, which McKenzie wore while he handed out bobblehead figurines of himself during an opening at SculptureCenter in New York. Ligon floated a few possible rejoinders: Dave was a dancing machine; Dave felt your pain; Dave wanted to be like Mike; Dave believed he could fly; Dave was a dime-store Jesus, for whom made-in-China tchotchkes were the bread and wine of a secular communion. These musings riffed on McKenzie’s various attempts to embody public figures, such as when he marched through Harlem sporting a rubber mask of Bill Clinto
2021 - What about Africanness? - Wits University wits.ac.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wits.ac.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
EATONTON Here in the heart of Georgia’s Piedmont, Native American history has been said to date back as much as 3,000 years long before the first dairy farm came about in Putnam County, and long before Joel Chandler Harris began writing folk tales which were popular in his day, but not so much anymore.
Although it would probably be politically incorrect in these times to create an Uncle Remus narrating stories, the lessons and logic of those tales remain celebrated and useful for their insightfulness. Our world is abundantly populated with folk slugging the tar baby today.
Harris was not the only celebrated author to hail from these parts. Additionally, the list includes poet Louise Prudden Hunt; Alice Walker, author of the novel “The Color Purple;” and David Driskell, leading scholar and promoter of African-American art.