#adrienneedwards

✊🏾🎨📰#ArtIsAWeapon "With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color" by @rpogrebin for @nytimes: https://nyti.ms/2M7l5bU. ________________ 📷 of #curators (from left) @rjkhckly, @marcelacguerrero, #AdrienneEdwards, @christopherylew by 📸 @lovebryan. ________________ Excerpts: "For decades the country’s mainstream art museums have excluded people of color — from their top leadership to the curators who create shows to the artists they display on their walls. Now, eager to attract a broader cross-section of visitors at a time when the country’s demographics are changing — and, in New York, facing an ultimatum linking city funding to inclusion plans — a growing number of museums are addressing diversity with new urgency." ________________ “Museums can’t be excellent if their staffs are not diverse.” - @fordfoundation President Darren Walker. ________________ “The whitest job in the entire cultural community in New York is curator...That's changing." - NYC's commissioner of cultural affairs Tom Finkelpearl. ________________ Read full story: https://nyti.ms/2M7l5bU #ArtsInclusivity #BlackCurators #CuratorsOfColor #NYTimes #RobinPogrebin #ArtsInstitutions #museums #DiversifyTheArts #DecolonizeThisPlace #ArtsAdministrators #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon

#Repost @hankwillisthomas ・・・ 15,093 is the number of people who lost their lives to gun violence in 2016. 15,580 is the number of people who lost their lives to gun violence in 2017. Each life is a star. Yesterday would have been my cousin’s, Songha Thomas Willis, 46th birthday but he was shot and killed by teenagers with a gun. How do we commemorate the 200,000 people who have been shot and killed since then? I’ve been working on this piece for two years, thank you to #adrienneedwards and @friezeartfair for being willing to feature a work like this, that speaks to such a critical issues of our time, a major feature of an art fair where people don’t often want to address complicated issues such as these so boldly. (at Frieze Art Fair)

"Whether through her playful photomontages, or glistening veneered black paintings, or chromatic "Sea Bed" paintings, Ellen Gallagher provides vectors to consider the ways in which abstraction, Orientalist genre painting, and desire converge as portraits of historical, social and personal imaginaries. Her speculative approach sieves a broad range of seemingly incommensurable references as concrete fragments that we cannot easily trace or fully comprehend, but nevertheless, must. She engages the paradoxes she sets up and upon which she depends through a mode of archaeological extraction of history and matter. In her artworks, Gallagher relies upon what she has described as a 'jitter,' a mode of becoming in which radical aesthetic possibilities emerge from seismic cracks in the surface of things; connoting unsteady movement, unreliability, impossible alignments, blind spots and opacity as a means of escape and flight." - Adrienne Edwards, "Ellen Gallagher: Accidental Records" by @hauserwirth #ellengallagher #adrienneedwards #accidentalrecords #middlepassage #slavetrade #historypainting #artistbook #artbook #artbookdap #blackhistory

#aboutyesterday In preparation for my radio interview on #WBAI show #stateoftheart I dropped by @pacegallery to see the current #exhibition #blacknessinabstraction. While there I ran into the always kind and generous with his time @jerrysaltz. Thank you for the critical discourse surrounding some of the artist and work featured, like the piece we are standing in front of "Throw" by @mutustudio. The curator #adrienneedwards did an amazing job putting together 29 artist with about 60 #worksofart. #art #contemporaryart #diannesmithart #diannesmith (at Pace Gallery)

Opening Soon: Pace Gallery is pleased to present Blackness in Abstraction, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today. Featuring works by 29 artists across a range of practices, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to abstract art.   The exhibition will be on view from June 23 to August 19 at 510 W. 25th Street. Join us for the opening reception next Thursday, June 23 from 6-8 pm. Visit our website for more information. Featured Image: Wangechi Mutu, "Throw," 2016. Site Specific Action Painting. Dimensions Variable. Photograph courtesy the artist © Wangechi Mutu