Seattle s Lady A is still struggling against the band formerly known as Lady Antebellum for name rights: Beverly Aarons over at the
South Seattle Emeraldspoke with the Black blues singer about how the white country band s decision to rename themselves using her moniker is an ongoing battle.
The first OFFICIAL Pioneer Square Art Walk is back this Thursday: As I mentioned in the last edition of Art Mailbox, this Thursday s Art Walk down at Pioneer Square also kicks off the Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair. The deconstructed art fair is meant as a stand-in for the delayed Seattle Art Fair and celebrates local galleries and artists for the month of August. This week, be sure to check out Michael Knutson at Greg Kucera Gallery, group show
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Jack Shainman Gallery exhibits eight new weavings by Diedrick Brackens
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting diedrick brackens rhyming positions at the 513 West 20th Street location. The artists second exhibition with the gallery, these eight new weavings continue the explorations of narrative, allegory, and intimacy so fundamental to Brackens practice.
In several tableaux situated in nature, Brackens plays with the idea of creating home in a wild space, honoring the outdoors as a place in which queerness lives. This is a nod to the history of queer and femme folks who have gathered in nature, creating safe spaces for ritual and communion. This notion of commune is present in summer syllables, in which two figures stretch in lyrical movement, seemingly fashioning loops out of their own bodies, as if flowing one into the other within a vast, yellow landscape. In soft, dark, demigod, a figure bends over, caught within a thicket of roses in fu
Exhibition by Carrie Mae Weems opens at Logan Center Exhibitions
Installation view of Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams.
CHICAGO, IL
.-Logan Center Exhibitions at the University of Chicago is presenting Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago as part of the multi-site exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
On view July 17December 12, 2021, Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams features an array of media and objectsphotography, video, texts, bric-a-brac, and furniturethrough which Weems reimagines the Black Panther Partys programs for young people in Chicago during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the main gallery, visitors are invited to browse, sit, and explore a classroom setting replete with desks, chairs, books, a blackboard, View-Masters, and posters of historic Black leaders. A smaller gallery, designed to resemble a theate