Sentences with phrase «inspired by black culture»

Joe Scanlan wanted Donelle Woolford to perform at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which only shows works by artists of African descent or works inspired by black culture.

The works on display embody the Studio Museum's mission and programming, presenting historically significant work by artists of African descent, and art inspired by black culture locally, nationally and internationally.

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for black artists locally, nationally, and internationally, and for work that has been inspired by black culture.

Organized by Lauren Haynes, Naima J. Keith and Thomas J. Lax, Assistant Curators at the Studio Museum, Fore continues the Studio Museum's mission as the nexus for artists of African descent, locally, nationally and internationally, and for work inspired by black culture.

The new building, designed by Adjaye Associates, with Cooper Robertson as executive architects and program planning consultants, will enable the Studio Museum to better serve its growing and diverse audiences, provide additional educational opportunities to museumgoers from toddlers to seniors, expand its world - renowned exhibitions of art by artists of African descent and influenced and inspired by black culture, and effectively display its singular collection of artwork from the nineteenth century to the present day.

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Inspired by Mexico City's rich culture, the unique pillow sham features a black and white patina aesthetic, embroidered border and 2 - tone tassels.

I was inspired by Berlin and the capital's culture, which made me choose between black and metallic fabrics.

Like Orange Is the New Black, GLOW, inspired by the short - lived but beloved show from the»80s, has been a critical and pop culture hit.

Designed by Moroccan architect Jamal Lamini Alaoui and French interior designer Didier Rey, the venue inspires peace with shades of black and white and the use of exquisite materials - a tribute to modern styles and Moroccan culture.

New York - based artist KEVIN BEASLEY presents mixed - media sculptures inspired by two very different cultures and time periods — Bernini's 17th century Baroque alter piece in Rome and an iconic image of Black Panther Huey P. Newton.

Lawson is visually inspired by the materiality of black culture and...

The 11 - month residency is one of the many programs the museum spearheads, all of which are inspired or influenced by black culture.

Our Mission The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent, locally, nationally and internationally, and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture...

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture.

Inspired by the outreach work of the Black Panther Party focused on illiteracy, poverty, and hunger; feminist consciousness raising; and radical self - care initiatives, these projects take a holistic approach to self - preservation, thus preserving people and culture for posterity.

Working with models drawn from her circle of friends and relatives, she outfits them with carefully selected wigs, costumes, and makeup, then poses them in looks inspired by black popular culture from the 1970s to the present.

In 2016, she launched The Gallery at Calabar in Harlem focused on contemporary African Artists and African Diaspora artists globally whose work is inspired and influenced by black and global African culture globally investigating dynamic ideas about art, culture and society.

The sounds and smells, local culture and mythologies surround him, and his paintings now come alive from a new palette inspired by the colours of luscious tropical flowers and the blue - blacks nights.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Inspired both by Duchamp's ready - mades and by Arte Povera, he gathers abandoned materials, often found in the street and connected to black culture — fragments of metal and wood, hats, cigarettes, basketball nets, stones and fabrics — and raises them to the level of art objects.

Based in Harlem, work featured is inspired and influenced by black African culture globally with a focus on dynamic ideas about art and society.

Her scantily clad black heroines are quasi-self-portraits inspired by pop culture (1960s girl wrestlers, 1970s blaxploitation movies featuring Pam Grier, disco - era album covers, and Jet magazine «Beauties of the Week») and framed by high - culture references to nudes by Matisse, Picabia, and Balthus.

The Studio Museum in Harlem was founded in 1968 and is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally, and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture.

Black Women / Black Lives explores the symbolic and narrative portrayal of Black women in art and material culture inspired by Civil Rights and Black liberation movements of the 1960s through our own 21st century moment.

Thomas, whose work was included in the Museum's 2013 presentation of «Posing Beauty in African American Culture» and 2009 exhibition «Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities,» is inspired by a range of sources including art history, popular culture and feminist tCulture» and 2009 exhibition «Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities,» is inspired by a range of sources including art history, popular culture and feminist tculture and feminist thought.

Inspired by the critical debate surrounding multiculturalism and the appropriation of black culture by a white audience, Ofili has said, «My project is not a p.c. project, that's my direct link to blaxploitation.

TALK Feb. 21: Inspired by the forthcoming debut of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), the 2015 Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series is titled «Curating Black America» and features a keynote lecture by Lonnie Bunch, founding director of NMAAHC.

Inspired by a blend of social documentary, figurative portraiture, and family album - style snapshots, her images explore visual expression and identity in black culture.

This major survey exhibition, inspired by Paul Gilroy's book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture, a network of contacts crossing the Atlantic, which connects African, North and South American, Caribbean and European cultures.

Now celebrating 50 years of its place as the home for artists of African descent as well as work inspired and influenced by black culture, the Studio Museum (headed by @thelmagolden) is ensuring that it will continue to support excellence in artistry well into the 21st century.