Sentences with phrase «american jazz artists»
It was this office which subsidised the animated version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's international touring programme.
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I founded LVanHart Artist Productions in 1997, a company that manages the careers of world - class jazz musicians who travel the globe as performers, educators and ambassadors of this uniquely American art form.
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This marvelous read - along of Ehrhardt's rhythmic picture book, a joyous introduction to nine African American jazz musicians, is read by Williams, who is backed with sound effects and original music and riffs honoring the jazz artists» melodic styles.
Those who remember Bing Crosby only for «White Christmas» may be surprised to find jazz - critic Giddins singing Der Bingle's praises as «one of the handful of artists who remade American music in the 1920s.»
While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.
Traveled to Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (February 12 — May 11, 2008) Be — Bomb: The Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz in the 1950s, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain (October 5, 2007 — January 7, 2008) Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (September 29, 2007 — January 6, 2008) Twentieth - Century American Women Artists from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Gallery at the Park Avenue Bank, New York, New York (September 17 — November 2) Americans in Paris: Abstract Painting in the Fifties, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (July 16 — September 29) French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris, France (May 25 — July 13) When Art Worlds Collide: The 60s, Woodward Gallery, New York (May 17 — July 14) An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (April 20 — July 29) Gestes, Signes, Traces, Espaces: Figures de la peinture moderne française dans les collections publiques normandes, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France (February 17 — April 30).
The museum organizes and presents leading - edge exhibitions that travel to institutions worldwide, including Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art (2016 - 17), Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014), Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey (2013), The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914 - 1918 (2010) and Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool (2008).
Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), a Filipino American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.
In recent years, Thompson's work has also been exhibited regularly in group exhibitions worldwide, including Il Secolo del Jazz: Arte, Cinema, Musica e Fotografia da Picasso a Basquiat (The Jazz Century: Art, Cinema, Music and Photography from Picasso to Basquiat) at the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rovereto, Italy, which traveled to the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris France and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona, Spain (2009); Blues for Smoke at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA, which traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art and Wexner Center for the Arts of the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH (2012); Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, which traveled to the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2014); Beat Generation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France (2016); and The Color Line: African American Artists and Segregation at the Musée du Quai Branly (2016).
For their Performa 17 commission, Ethiopian - born American artist Julie Mehretu and American jazz musician Jason Moran have been collaborating to create an experience that contemplates mourning and abstraction in response to the current political landscape.
Already accustomed to working with each other, Ethiopian - born artist Julie Mehretu and the American jazz pianist Jason Moran will once again collaborate on a project, this time for Performa 17.
They also explore the artist's relationship between his African heritage and popular American cultures: from vaudeville to jazz and the blues.
1997 Seeing Jazz, International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Western Gallery, Bellingham, WA; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Munson - Williams - Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX Revisiting American Art / Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Queens Artists: Highlights of the Century, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Davis's exuberant, colorful compositions echo the dynamism of the American scene and the rhythms of jazz, the artist's lifelong passion.
2012 Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Narrative of African American Art and Identity, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Convergence: Jazz, Films and the Visual Arts, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, MA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Magical Visions: Ten Contemporary African American Artists, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
In any case, there is no information on individual artists, some of whom, like the wonderful Bob Thompson — an African American painter and jazz musician who died of a heroin overdose in 1966 — really deserve to be better known.
The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.
So many artists, African American and not, listened to jazz.
Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), an Asian American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.
About Leo Valledor: Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), a Filipino American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.
After a brief incursion into abstraction, he began a long and honest search for his own personal voice, studying Western Art, African philosophy, the music of jazz and the legacy of African American artists.
Jazz was a vital influence on Bearden, as it remains for Sam Nhlengethwa, whose early work was indebted to this masterful American artist.
Throuhgout Bearden's career as an artist, he was heavily influenced by African - American life and culture as well as jazz music.
In their book, «A History of African - American Artists» (Random House, 1992), Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson devoted a chapter to Mr. Wilson, ranking him as a significant artist and citing works like «Second Genesis» and «Jazz Musicians,» both at schools in Baltimore, where he was born.
Ellen Priest is an American abstract artist who is inspired by music and most notably by jazz.
American artist Lucas Ajemian, along with his brother Jason, a jazz musician and composer, assembled a ten - piece classical orchestra for their performance of the legendary rock song, «Into the Void» by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
A new performance conceived and directed by the artist with newly composed music by Jonas's longtime sound collaborator, the American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, took place on three evenings in July at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.
A new performance by the artist is also planned for Venice in July 2015, with new music by Jonas's long - time collaborator Jason Moran, American jazz pianist and composer.
Recalling Piet Mondrian's late series New York City (1941 - 42), and works by such American artists as Robert Ryman and Brice Marden, To the People of New York City (1976) is distinguished by its prescribed hanging and pacing, and its rhythmically changing formats, which also bring to mind the Jazz performances that Palermo sought out during his time in New York, where he had maintained a studio from 1973 to 1975.
American virtuoso Jason Moran is a genius jazz pianist known for performing experimental compositions in collaborative projects with visual artists.
American virtuoso Jason Moran is a genius jazz pianist known for performing experimental compositions in collaborative projects with visual artists — among them, Joan Jonas, Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon and Adrian Piper.
It may also present a whiff of home for the Atlanta - based artist, whose practice routinely confronts the heritage of the American South in both its revolting (e.g., slavery) and enlivening (e.g., jazz) aspects.
«It thus honors the jazz and blues music that inspired African American artists — and modernists in general.»
The Museum's formidable collection of postwar and contemporary prints includes Henri Matisse's Jazz portfolio as well as notable works by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, American artists in the prints collection include Alexander Calder, Ilya Bolotowsky, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist and Wayne Thiebaud.
FORT WORTH, Texas — This summer, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents the traveling exhibition Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, the first retrospective of the artist's paintings in two decades.
And there are countless others, including American artist Stuart Davis, who desribed jazz as «a continuous source of inspiration in my work» an American art form in which he discovered «the same quality of art that I found in the best European painting».
Not - to - be-missed performances include famed South African artist William Kentridge's interpretation of Kurt Schwitters» celebrated Dada sound poem The Ursonate at the Half Church in Harlem, and Ethiopian - born American artist Julie Mehretu's collaboration with American jazz musician Jason Moran, which confronts the current political landscape with gestural articulations and New Orleans - style funeral procession sounds.
He had progressive ambitions — creating «spatial films» in the museum galleries with photographic reproductions of famous African American figures, videos of members of the Harlem community, and recordings of jazz music — but not a single artwork by a black (or white) artist was included.
This exhibition features works by many innovative artists and filmmakers, mostly African Americans, whose art depicts, is influenced by, or visually parallels jazz music and culture.
Pollock was widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative American artists of the twentieth century, who also had a love for jazz.
As a young African - American artist in New York City, Thompson took advantage of his vibrant surroundings, befriending celebrated jazz musicians, noted art historians, and Beat poets alike.
The MacArthur Fellow and artistic adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center talks about when he first started improvising, how he collaborates with contemporary artists and what unfolded during Bleed, the suite of events he created with his wife Alicia Hall Moran during their 2012 Biennial residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
African American history, from the Great Migration and Jazz age are depicted by other artists like Romare Bearden (1911 - 88) and Robert Scott Duncanson (1821 - 72).