Dawoud Bey: An American Project
Until 3 October at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, Manhattan
The US photographer Dawoud Bey has been preoccupied with conveying and documenting the history of the African American experience for more than four decades. This travelling retrospective begins with the artist’s first series of street photography in Harlem in 1975 and ends with his 2017 nocturnal landscapes called Night Coming Tenderly Black, where he set out to visualise the path of fugitive slaves escaping under the cover of darkness to freedom on the Underground Railroad in Ohio. Among the highlights, Bey’s
Class Pictures series (2001-2006) features colour portraits of high school students taken during various artist residencies at different museums around the country. His mission, in part, has for many years been to facilitate accessibility. “It’s a way of getting the museum as an institution to engage in an expanded conversation and to reconsider just
Museum workers worldwide lose jobs, income many plan to leave field
On April 13, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) made public the findings of a survey, “Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on People in the Museum Field,” conducted in March. Some 2,700 individuals responded, 87 percent of them (pre-pandemic) museum staff in the US.
Unsurprisingly, the results paint a picture of economic hardship, professional uncertainty and mental turmoil. The more precarious a given respondent’s position in the field, generally speaking, the greater the financial loss (as a percentage of previous income) and the deeper the skepticism about the future.
Forty-three percent of museum workers as a whole saw their income fall by an average of 31 percent over the course of 2020. More than 60 percent of part-time staff, already living at poverty levels, testify to “having lost income due to the pandemic, with a median of eight thousand dollars lost due to reduced salary, benefits, or hours fo
From Op Art to NFTs, Heritage Auction s Modern & Contemporary event travels back to the future
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997), CHOKK, 1976. Acrylic on canvas, 81 x 75 inches. Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000.
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.-Heritage Auctions May 13 Modern & Contemporary Signature Auction is a decidedly frisky peek at the past, present and future of the definition of art, spanning decades to include masterworks by revered pioneers, celebrated revolutionaries and treasured upstarts. The sale, open now, includes a beer can fashioned into a rattle by Alexander Calder in the 1940s, a hypnotic work made in the 1970s by Op art co-founder Victor Vasarely and three digital Everydays by coveted NFT world-shaker and headline-maker Beeple. And everything imaginable in between.
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Museums Send Deaccessioned American Art To Auction, While One Sells Privately For New Acquisitions
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(detail) Alma Thomas, “Alma’s Flower Garden,” circa 1968 (oil on canvas). Greenville County Museum of Art
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Pandemic-induced impacts on museums, many temporarily closed for months to over one year, have caused widespread staff lay-offs and furloughing as revenue shrunk. Museums directors estimated that their institutions would be losing the equivalent of 35% of their annual operating income in 2020, according to an October survey by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Museum deaccessions have since been ticking up with the spring sales in New York offering up several prime examples by historic American artists from Childe Hassam to Georgia O Keeffe.