Dawoud Bey
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A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, N.Y., 1988, courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and RenaBransten Gallery. Dawoud Bey
Here s a tip: If you re looking at one of Dawoud Bey s images, the photographer suggests you look not at the face, but at the hands: Hands are very important they are expressive, Bey says. They are a part of each of our idiosyncratic, expressive vocabulary. And to me they are one of the things that makes an individual who they are in the performance of themselves.
For more than 40 years, Bey has been photographing people, places and the history of Black Americans, from Harlem to Louisiana. The MacArthur award-winner is considered one of the foremost chroniclers of Black life. The first museum retrospective of his work is touring the country and is now at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Ga.
The anonymous feminist artists are renewing their calls for MoMA to oust Black form its board.
February 2, 2021
Leon Black speaks onstage at the Museum Of Modern Art Film Benefit on November 19, 2018, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art.
The Guerrilla Girls are once again calling on New York’s Museum of Modern Art to remove chairman Leon Black from its board due to his longstanding ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The anonymous feminist art collective also canceled their 2018 book deal with Phaidon, an art publishing house owned by Black, who stepped down as chief executive of his investment firm, Apollo Global Management, after its board found he had paid Epstein $158 million (well after his sex crimes conviction).
Exhibition of new works on paper by Jason Moran on view at Luhring Augustine
Jason Moran: The Sound Will Tell You, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York (January 16 February 27, 2021).
NEW YORK, NY
.-Luhring Augustine is presenting The Sound Will Tell You, a presentation of new works on paper by Jason Moran, which marks the gallerys second exhibition with the artist. Internationally renowned as a jazz pianist and composer, Morans interdisciplinary and often collaborative visual art practice mines the history of music, and its social, cultural, and political subtexts.
To create these vibrant and textured works, Moran places a sheet of Japanese Gampi paper on a piano and records his various attacks on the keys. The motion of his hands is tracked in layered lines of saturated pigment, and washes of color spill across the compositions, tracing the pull of gravity, or charting the creases and natural fibers of the paper. Recalling traditions of gestural abstraction and automat