Rihanna has teamed with artist
Lorna Simpson for a series of stunning collages for the January/February 2021 issue of Essence and 12-page portfolio titled “Of Earth & Sky.”
“Lorna is a legend,” said Rihanna. “Honestly, I just didn’t think I could get her,” she added. “But I like reaching for the stars and I like challenging myself.”
Here’s more from Essence:
Simpson has become known for her art that recontextualizes images of Black women from vintage pages of Ebony and Jet magazines and found photos in the creation of arresting collages. In 2018, she received the J. Paul Getty Medal and she has been honored by The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Saying yes to this exclusive project allowed Simpson, 60, to continue exploring narratives around gender, race and identity. She also shared the experience with her daughter, writer and actor Zora Simpson Casebere, 22, who penned the accompanying co
Marian Goodman Gallery Will Fund Research Fellowships for BIPOC Curators in Honor of the Late Okwui Enwezor
The program was designed by artist Steve McQueen and developed in partnership with Independent Curators International.
January 13, 2021
Participants of the 2019 Curatorial Intensive in Cape Town, South Africa, organized in collaboration with the Institute for Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town. Courtesy of Independent Curators International.
In honor of the late Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor, Marian Goodman Gallery has launched a new initiative to fund career opportunities for early- and mid-career BIPOC curators.
The program, funded by Marian Goodman Gallery and designed by artist Steve McQueen, will award two research fellowships with the non-profit Independent Curators International. The awards will be given every year for the next three years to BIPOC curators in the U.S. or to curators of African descent located anywhere in the world.
Ed Ruscha: Paintings
Until 23 January at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, Manhattan
The gallery is debuting eight new paintings by Ed Ruscha, one of America’s most significant living painters. Six of the canvases are two feet high and eight feet long, and each expands upon elements of the artist s lexicon that have, over the nearly six decades and counting of his career, become cornerstones of the zeitgeist. There are three iconographic landmarks explored in this show: flags, tires, and mountains. They are on occasion remixed, such as in the painting
Hardscrabble (2020) which features a mountainscape at sunset, above which a massive tire tread floats in the sky. This single painting almost serves as a map to the cardinal points of Ruscha’s mastery: the sunset becomes a vehicle in which the seasoned painter can show off his trademark gradients, which he has revelled since at least the 1970s; the mountainscape allows him to display a technical prowess that is, though as efficien
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Plus, the Orange County Museum of Art names a new director and an art collector is quickly becoming a frontrunner in New York s mayoral race.
January 14, 2021
Musician Toby Keith accepts the Video Visionary Award onstage during the American Country Awards 2010. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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 Thursday, January 14.
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Rendering credit: Beyer Blinder Belle
Trader Joe’s will join Target at a major new mixed-use development in Harlem. It will be the grocery store’s 13th location in New York City. The $242 million project is known as the Urban League Empowerment Center, as it will be home to a new headquarters for the National Urban League and the state’s first civil rights museum. It will also include 170 affordable and mixed-income apartments and office space for local nonprofits.
The National Urban League Empowerment Center is being developed by The Prusik Group, BRP Companies, L+M Development Partners, and Taconic Partners. The 17-story project was first announced back in 2013 but did not receive the necessary approvals to move ahead until July of 2019. Designed by the architects at Beyer Blinder Belle, it’s expected to be completed in 2023.