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Tribute to Vision & Justice Project and Founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Frieze New York galleries and institutions respond to: ‘How are the arts responsible for disrupting, complicating, or shifting narratives of visual representation in the public realm?’  A central strand of Frieze New York 2021 programming is the Tribute to the  Vision & Justice Project and its founder, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Associate Professor at Harvard University). The Tribute will honour the exemplary work of the Vision & Justice Project, through an unprecedented engagement with the communi...

Cost:    $20 | $10 Parrish Members Free for Students Description The Parrish, in collaboration with Hamptons Doc Fest, is pleased to present HBO's newly released film. Inspired by the late David Driskell’s landmark 1976 exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” the documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light offers an illuminating introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today. A pre-recorded conversation between the director, Sam Pollard, and Senior Curator Corinne Erni will follow each screening. Friday, A...

The Phillips Collection celebrates its centennial year in 2021.  After losing his father in 1917 and then his brother in the 1918 influenza pandemic, museum founder Duncan Phillips wrote in A Collection in the Making, “Art offers two great gifts of emotion—the emotion of recognition and the emotion of escape. Both emotions take us out of the boundaries of self…. At my period of crisis I was prompted to create something which would express my awareness of life’s returning joys and ...

1 month ago in Local Photo: clipart.com Organizations around Maine are set to receive nearly $300,000 to promote arts and literature programs. The funding is from the National Endowment for the Arts and is going to organizations and individuals from Portland to Waterville. The largest award is a $45,000 grant to the Portland Museum of Art to support an exhibition of the work of painter David Driskell, who died in 2020. Points North Institute in Camden will receive $20,000 to support the Camden International Film Festival. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculp...

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. (Photo by Stu Rosner) This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Bridget R. Cooks, and Darby English. *** One cannot consider the present-day field of African American art history without mention of Sarah Lewis. The associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University whose groundbreaking Vision & Justice project has become a part of Harvard’s core art history cur...