Nari Ward and Sir David Adjaye Obe in Conversation
part of Nari Ward: We The People

Online Event
MCA Denver

August 20, 2pm

Exhibition through September 20
Join MCA Denver for a free, virtual conversation between exhibiting artist Nari Ward and Sir David Adjaye OBE, the architect who designed MCA Denver. Ward’s work often engages directly with the site in which it is installed, generating an intimate response to the architecture and opening up conversations between the art and its setting. Adjaye, an acclaimed architect who has designed several museums since completing MCA Denver in 2007, creates spaces uniquely suited for the scale and impact of contemporary art. We look forward to a lively conversation between these two world-renowned creators and innovators.

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Lisa Corinne Davis featured in The Pursuit of Aesthetics

Online Exhibition
Morgan Lehman Gallery

Through September 5

What do we say about artwork that offers an opportunity for contemplation and aesthetics? What relevance does it have in this moment? An artist’s DNA is set, accordingly, how do we work through this moment in history? Maybe some days we do not paint at all and other days we turn off our newsfeed long enough to create an abstract image.

Color carries emotion; nature inspires; memory guides our hands; beauty is persuasive.

20% of proceeds from sales will be contributed to the American Civil Liberties Union

-Andrea Belag, artist and guest curator

Valerie Jaudon: Prepositions

DC Moore Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY

Through October 3

Valerie Jaudon: Prepositions showcases recent paintings that continue Jaudon’s longstanding examination, begun in the mid-1970s, of the bounded yet infinitely expandable world of the finely wrought, intricate, and maze-like abstract image.

Exhibition catalogue with essay by Raphael Rubinstein available.

Viewing room

Image: Cantabile, 2019. Oil on linen, 81 x 81 inches

Paul Ramírez Jonas, Eternal Flame

Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Boulevard
Long Island City, NY

Through March 14

Paul Ramírez Jonas’ ‘Eternal Flame’ is a monument in the form of a communal grill and imagines cooking culture as both a symbolic and real eternal flame – there is always a lit cooking fire somewhere on this globe. The work honors the role of cuisine and cooking in cultural cohesion and expression among communities and identities,  even when individuals and families relocate locally, nationally or internationally.

‘Eternal Flame’ is designed to recognize the importance of dialogue and exchange.
During this new time of social distancing the grill will not be available for public use, but instead bring people together philosophically and culturally through the common experience of cooking and eating. With this in mind, a series of videos will be released with local and distant chefs invited by the artist to address the meaning of the eternal flame while preparing recipes and relating stories on each dish’s significance. Ramírez Jonas imagines cooking culture as a symbolic eternal flame, enduring in communities for generations, over vast distances.

Nelson Social Justice Lecture with Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe

Portland Museum of Art – Online Event

May 14, 4:30pm

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The Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund at the Portland Museum of Art honors artists who inform their work with themes of social justice.
Tune in for this special free digital event as PMA Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Jaime DeSimone explores the feminist ideologies of the artists behind Tabernacles for Trying Times.

Night Shades and Phantoms: An Exhibition of Works by Robert Rauschenberg

Catalog published online by The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Co-edited by Emily Braun
The exhibition catalogue produced by the Hunter MA Program in Art History Curatorial Certificate and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is now available on the Rauschenberg Foundation website! As part of a curatorial practicum course led by Professor Braun, MA students Daniela Mayer, Chris Murtha, Lucy Riley, Joseph Shaikewitz, and Melissa Waldvogel organized the exhibition Night Shades and Phantoms: An Exhibition of Works by Robert Rauschenberg.The show was mounted in the Spring of 2019 at the Foundation’s headquarters and the accompanying digital catalogue can be viewed here: https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/sites/default/files/Rauschenberg_NightShadesandPhantoms.pdf

In addition, essays from the research methods section of this course were also published. These essays focus on individual artworks by Rauschenberg and were written by MA students Re’al Christian, Kristen Clevenson, Margaret Colbert, Vitoria Hadba, Kristin Howell, and Beatrice Johnson and MFA student Evan Bellatone.

View their essays here: https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/programs/collaborations/hunter-college-cuny-research-methods-fall-2018

Michael Lobel featured in Artforum
Close Contact: Art and the 1918 Flu Pandemic

“There are virtually no monuments or memorials to those who died from influenza in 1918–19, in part because of the contemporaneity of the war, but also because the pandemic seems to have lacked any central organizing visual motifs. Unlike the Great War, the flu offered up no heroic doughboys or angels of victory, nor were there any persevering scientists who could provide a convenient face of the battle against the illness…. And it certainly lacked the kind of molecular renderings that are used to visualize viruses in our own day, specifically that now-ubiquitous spiky globe, like some kind of Koosh ball or knobby dog toy, that, in its scientistic imaging of disease, has become one of the primary visual emblems of Covid-19.”

Read the full article here

Image: Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu, 1919, oil on canvas, 59 x 51 5/8”. National Gallery, Oslo.

Alexandro Segade Featured in Artforum

Alexandro Segade’s Graphic Novel The Context published this month by Primary Information

The Context reimagines the superhero comic book as a queer parable of belonging. The story follows six powerful beings from different worlds who find themselves inexplicably adrift together in an otherwise lifeless void: Biopower, Cathexis, Barelife, Objector, Drives, and Form. The characters, each named for a concept drawn from critical theory, engage one another in skintight fight scenes that often look like sex scenes, and philosophical debates masked as exposition.

As a lifelong fan and a more recent critic of the superhero genre, artist and performer Alexandro Segade approached his first graphic novel as a solo performance, acting out all the roles: writer, penciller, inker, colorist and letterer. The Context considers the form of the graphic novel through conceptual, minimalist, op art, and constructivist aesthetics, while paying homage to the great cosmic comics of the 1970s and ’80s: Silver Surfer, Legion of Super Heroes, Green Lantern, Adam Warlock and X-Men (to name a few). A meditation on group dynamics, composed of foreshortened figures in flight set against an endless field of stars, The Context illustrates a vastness that extends past the boundaries of different art forms and ways of being.

MFA Thesis Student Profiles: Johanna Strobel

Johanna Strobel is an interdisciplinary artist from Germany. She holds degrees in Information Science and Mathematics and graduated in painting and graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Honors (Meisterschuelerin). Based on free flowing research, Johanna investigates objects and structures of our shared reality and culture, exploring unwieldy concepts like language, perception of time and space, the creation of meaning, the construction of subjectivity and objecthood, and the everyday perception and precipitation of these concepts in mundane life. She processes her ideas both logically and associatively and uses repetition and recursion to explore them working in a variety of media including video, installation, painting and sculpture.

@hijoylo
www.johannastrobel.com

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Anthony Hawley in Frieze and The Brooklyn Rail

Anthony Hawley reviews This Year’s Berlinale Film Festival (pictured) in Frieze and is in conversation with Romanian New Wave director Corneliu Porumboiu in The Brooklyn Rail.