Adger Cowans,
Footsteps, 1960. (Courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund / The Whitney Museum of American Art)
When the Kamoinge Workshop began in 1963, taking its name from a Kikuyu word meaning “a group of people acting together,” a few Black photographers had already gained some prominence. Gordon Parks was probably chief among them. After starting as a portraitist in Chicago, he had gone on to work during the war years with the renowned photography program of the Farm Security Administration, best known for sending the likes of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to document everyday rural life during the Depression; in postwar Harlem he went to work for
Minneapolis Institute of Art acquires complete archive of works created by Highpoint Editions
Jim Hodges, of Summer, 2016. From Seasons. Sugar-lift aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint (scribes, sandpaper), scraping, burnishing, woodcut in dark blue on Gampi paper, screenprint in light blue, and color digital pigment print on Gampi paper with cutouts; edition of 28, plus 6 artists proofs, 34 × 24 in. (86.36 × 60.96 cm) (image); 41 × 30 1/2 in. (104.14 × 77.47 cm) (sheet) Highpoint Editions Archive, The Friends of Bruce B. Dayton Acquisition Fund and the Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund 2020.85.53.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
.-The Minneapolis Institute of Art today announced it has acquired the complete archive of works by Highpoint Editions, the publishing arm of Highpoint Center for Printmaking (HP), a nonprofit printmaking art center established in 2001 in Minneapolis. The 20-year archive comprises 310 published prints and multiples, plus 700 items of ancillary
The Hudson River development will be built on the Gansevoort Peninsula in New York. The water quality has been called into question amid suggestions it could be used by kayakers.
5 to See: Women Artists Online
Women artists have been pushed to the side for too long. In Linda Nochlin’s seminal work
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? she states: “Assumptions must be questioned and the mythical basis of much so-called “fact” brought to light.” We must learn from the past to build a more inclusive, diverse world. 50 years since the essay was first published,
Aesthetica rounds up five digital exhibitions and talks that champion women practitioners â envisioning a brighter future.
“We share a deeply rooted interest in the female story and how our experiences and socio-cultural background influence our sense of self.” Sarah Cooper (b. 1974) and Nina Gorfer (b. 1979) began collaborating in 2006. Their photo-based collages â currently online at Fotografiska, New York â explore the idea of paradise in the age of the new diaspora. Young women who are disconnected from their homeland are photographed like goddesses. Surreal set
LACMA CEO and director Michael Govan. Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, February 10.
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LACMA Is Downsizing on Michael Govan’s House (Again) – The director of the Los Angeles museum will have to move for the second time in nine months now that LACMA is looking to sell his house, which it owns, for an asking price of $2.4 million. Govan originally lived in another, $6.6 million home that the museum listed for sale last year. Govan will now have to do without the perk entirely as the museum tries to compensate for revenus drops amid the pandemic. (