#Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection

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Ethiopian American Artist Julie Mehretu To be Given the Rees Visionary Award

Ethiopian American Artist Julie Mehretu To be Given the Rees Visionary Award

Julie Mehretu. Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection exhibition on view March 1 – September 8, 2019 Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, contemporary visual artist Julie Mehretu is world renowned for her large and energetic multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes. On February 25, 2023, Amref Health Africa will host their annual ArtBall event with adjoining art auction,…

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The Arts Seen in NYC (Pierre Cardin Is Totally Brilliant Edition)

The Arts Seen in NYC (Pierre Cardin Is Totally Brilliant Edition)

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to spend some time a-museuming and say, it was swell.

After navigating the usual midtown Manhattan mishegas to get to our usual hotel, we took the 2 Flatbush train to the always engaging Brooklyn Museum, which offered multiple exhibits of interest.

For starters, we checked out Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European…

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Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, and installation video, and is best known for her work in the field of photography. Her award-winning photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, sexism, politics, and personal identity.

She said, "Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in the country." More recently however, she expressed that "Black experience is not really the main point; rather, complex, dimensional, human experience and social inclusion ... is the real point."

Early life and education

Weems was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1953, the second of seven children to Carrie Polk and Myrlie Weems. She began participating in dance and street theater in 1965. At the age of 16 she gave birth to her first and only child, a daughter named Faith C. Weems. Later that year she moved out of her parents’ home and soon relocated to San Francisco to study modern dance with Anna Halprin at a workshop Halprin had started with several other dancers, as well as the artists John Cage and Robert Morris. She decided to continue her arts schooling and attended the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, graduating at the age of 28 with her B.A. She received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Weems also participated in the folklore graduate program at the University of California, Berkeley.

While in her early twenties, Carrie Mae Weems was politically active in the labor movement as a union organizer. Her first camera, which she received as a birthday gift, was used for this work before being used for artistic purposes. She was inspired to pursue photography after she came across The Black Photography Annual, a book of images by African-American photographers including Shawn Walker, Beuford Smith, Anthony Barboza, Ming Smith, Adger Cowans, and Roy DeCarava, who Weems found inspiring. This led her to New York City, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she began to meet other artists and photographers such as Coreen Simpson and Frank Stewart, and they began to form a community. In 1976 Weems took a photography class at the Museum taught by Dawoud Bey. She returned to San Francisco, but lived bi-coastally and was invited by Janet Henry to teach at the Studio Museum and a community of photographers in New York.

Career and work

In 1983, Carrie Mae Weems completed her first collection of photographs, text, and spoken word, called Family Pictures and Stories. The images told the story of her family, and she has said that in this project she was trying to explore the movement of black families out of the South and into the North, using her family as a model for the larger theme. Her next series, called Ain't Jokin', was completed in 1988. It focused on racial jokes and internalized racism. Another series called American Icons, completed in 1989, also focused on racism. Weems has said that throughout the 1980s she was turning away from the documentary photography genre, instead "creating representations that appeared to be documents but were in fact staged" and also "incorporating text, using multiples images, diptychs and triptychs, and constructing narratives." Sexism was the next focal point for her. It was the topic of one of her most well known collections called The Kitchen Table series which was completed in over a two year period, 1989 to 1990 and has Weems cast as the central character in the photographs. About Kitchen Table and Family Pictures and Stories, Weems has said: "I use my own constructed image as a vehicle for questioning ideas about the role of tradition, the nature of family, monogamy, polygamy, relationships between men and women, between women and their children, and between women and other women—underscoring the critical problems and the possible resolves." She has expressed disbelief and concern about the exclusion of images of the black community, particularly black women, from the popular media, and she aims to represent these excluded subjects and speak to their experience through her work. These photographs created space for other black female artists to further create art. Weems has also reflected on the themes and inspirations of her work as a whole, saying,

... from the very beginning, I've been interested in the idea of power and the consequences of power; relationships are made and articulated through power. Another thing that's interesting about the early work is that even though I've been engaged in the idea of autobiography, other ideas have been more important: the role of narrative, the social levels of humor, the deconstruction of documentary, the construction of history, the use of text, storytelling, performance, and the role of memory have all been more central to my thinking than autobiography.

Other series created by Weems include: the Sea Island Series (1991–92), the Africa Series (1993), From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995–96), Who What When Where (1998), Ritual & Revolution (1998), the Louisiana Project (2003), Roaming (2006), and the Museum Series, which she began in 2007. Her most recent project, Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, is a multimedia performance that explores "the role of grace in the pursuit of democracy."

In her almost 30-year career, Carrie Mae Weems has won numerous awards. She was named Photographer of the Year by the Friends of Photography. In 2005, she was awarded the Distinguished Photographer's Award in recognition of her significant contributions to the world of photography. Her talents have also been recognized by numerous colleges, including Harvard University and Wellesley College, with fellowships, artist-in-residence and visiting professor positions. She taught photography at Hampshire College in the late 1980s. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2013. In 2015 Weems was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow. In September 2015, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research presented her with the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal.

The first comprehensive retrospective of her work opened in September 2012 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, as a part of the center's exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video. Curated by Katie Delmez, the exhibition ran until January 13, 2013, and later traveled to Portland Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Cantor Center for Visual Arts. The 30-year retrospective exhibition opened in January 2014 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. This was the first time an "African-American woman [was] ever given a solo exhibition" at the Guggenheim. Weems' work returned to the Frist in October 2013 as a part of the center's 30 Americans gallery, alongside black artists ranging from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Kehinde Wiley.

Weems' work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Tate Museum in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Weems has been represented by Jack Shainman Gallery since 2008.

A full-color, visual book, titled Carrie Mae Weems, was published by Yale University Press in October 2012. The book offers the first major survey of Weems' career and includes a collection of essays from leading and emerging scholars in addition to over 200 of Weems' most important works.

Weems lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and Syracuse, New York, with her husband Jeffrey Hoone. She continues to produce art that provides social commentary on the experiences of people of color, especially black women, in America.

Weems is one of six artist-curators who made selections for Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from May 24, 2019, through January 12, 2020.

Select exhibitions

Presentations of her work have included exhibitions at:

Women in Photography, Cityscape Photo Gallery, Pasadena, CA, 1981

Multi-Cultural Focus, Barnsdall Art gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1981

Family Pictures and Stories, Multi-Cultural Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1984

People Close Up, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1986

Social Concerns, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1986

Past, Present, Future, The New Museum, New York, NY, 1986

Visible Differences, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, 1987

The Other, The Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 1988

A Century of Protest, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1989

Black Women Photographers, Ten.8, London, England, 1990

Who Counts?, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1990

Biological Factors, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1990

Trouble in Paradise, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA, 1990

Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1991

Of Light and Language, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991

Pleasures and terrors of Domestic Comfort, MOMA, New York, NY, 1991

Calling Out My Name, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY (traveled to PPOW gallery, New York, NY), 1991

Disclosing the Myth of Family, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1992

Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zur Politik und Identitat, Neue Gesellschaft fur dingende Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 1992

Dirt and Domesticity: Constructions of the Feminine, Whitney Museum of American Art, at Equitable Center, New York, NY, 1992

Art, Politics, and Community, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT (traveled to Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA), 1992

Mis/Taken identities, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen im Forum Langenstraße, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA), 1992–1994

Photography: Expanding the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1992–1994

Sea Island, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, 1993

Carrie Mae Weems (traveling exhibition), The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1993

And 22 Million Very Tired and very Angry People, Walter/McBean gallery, San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA, 1993

Enlightenment, Revolution, A Gallery Project, Ferndale, MI, 1993

Fictions of the Self: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1993–1994

The Theatre of Refusal: Black Art and the Mainstream Criticism, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA (traveled to University of California, Davis, CA; and University of California, Riverside, CA), 1993–1994

Women's Representation of Women, Sapporo American Center Gallery, Sapporo, Japan (traveled to Aka Renga Cultural Center, Fukuoka City, Japan; Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan; Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Arts Center, Japan; Spiral Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan), 1994

Imagining Families: Images and Voices, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1994–1995

Black Male, Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, 1994–1995

Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness, J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Malibu, CA, 1995

Projects 52, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1995

StoryLand: Narrative Vision and Social Space, Walter Phillips gallery, The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 1995

Embedded Metaphor, Traveling exhibit, curated by Nina Felshin, 1996

Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., international traveling exhibition, 1996

Gender - Beyond Memory, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, 1996

2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1997

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Artists, traveling exhibition, 1998

Taboo: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Gallery St. Etienne, New York, NY, 1998

Tell me a Story: Narration in Contemporary Painting and Photography, Center National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 1998

Recent Work: Carrie Mae Weems 1992–98, Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY, 1998–1999

Who, What, When, and Where, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY, 1998–1999

Ritual & Revolution, DAK'ART 98: Biennale of Contemporary Art, Galerie National d'Art, Dakar, Senegal, 1998–1999

It's Only Rock and Roll, traveling exhibition, 1999

Claustrophobia: Disturbing the Domestic in Contemporary Art, traveling exhibition, 1999

Histories (Re)membered, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1999

Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 2000–2003

Looking Forward, Looking Back, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2000

Material and Matter: Loans to and Selections from the Studio Museum Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, 2000

The View From Here: Issues of Cultural Identity and Perspective in Contemporary Russian and American Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2000

Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African-American Artists, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2000

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and culture, Washington, DC, 2000

History Now, touring exhibition beginning at the Liljevalchs Konsthall and Riksutstallningar, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More... On Collecting, traveling exhibition curated by Independent curators International, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2002

The Louisiana Project, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 2003

Cuba on the Verge, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 2003

Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980s, Lois & Richard Rosenthal center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, 2003

Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 2004

Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty, BCE, Toronto (traveling exhibit), 2004

African American Art - Photographs from the Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, 2005

Figuratively Speaking, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2005

The Whole World is Rotten, Jack Shainman gallery, New York, NY, 2005

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005

Out of Time: A Contemporary View, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2006

Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African-American Art, Zacheta national gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2006

Hidden in Plain Sight, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2007

Embracing Eatonville, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, 2007

The 21st century, The Feminine Century, and the century of Diversity and Hope, 2009 International Incheon Women Artists' Biennial, Incheon, South Korea, 2009–2010

Colour Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, UK, 2009–2010

Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, UK, 2009–2010

From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 2009–2010

Carrie Mae Weems: Estudios Sociales, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2010

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2010

Slow Fade to Black, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, 2010

The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum, Durham, NC, 2010

Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, UK, 2010

Off the Wall: Part 1 – Thirty Performative Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 2010

The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973–1991, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, NY, 2010

Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 2010

Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, 2010

Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2010

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2012

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2012

La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2012

Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, 2012

The Maddening Crowd (video installation), McNay Art Museum, Sa Antonio, TX, 2012

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford, CA, 2013

Feminist And..., The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013

Seven Sisters, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY, 2014

P.3 Prospect New Orleans, The McKenna Museum, New Orleans, LA, 2014

Color: Real and Imagined, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England, 2014

Carrie Mae Weems: The Museum Series, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2014

Wide Angle: American Photographs, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2014

The Memory of Time, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015

Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy, 2015

Winter in America, The School (Jack Shainman Gallery), 2015

An Exhibition of African American Photographers from the Daguerreian to the Digital Eras, Marshall Fine Arts Center at Haveford College, Haveford, PA, 2015

Represent: 200 years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2015

Under Color of Law, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art and Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, 2015

30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, 2015

Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy, 2016

The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art. Cambridge, MA, 2016

Viewpoints, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (February 18–June 18, 2017)

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (April 21–September 17, 2017)

Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO (June 9–October 7, 2017)

Matera Imagined: Photography and a Southern Italian Town, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy (2017)

...And the People, Maruani Mercer, Knokke, Belgium (August 5–September 4, 2017)

Medium, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA (August 29–December 3, 2017)

Carrie Mae Weems: Ritual and Revolution, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (September 12–December 10, 2017)

Dimensions of Black, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (September 17–December 28, 2017)

Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL (October 6, 2016 – January 21, 2018)

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 13, 2017 – January 14, 2018)

Edward Hopper Citation of Merit in the Visual Arts Recipient Exhibition, Carrie Mae Weems: Beacon, Nyack, NY (November 10, 2017 – February 25, 2018)

Making Home: Contemporary Works From the DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (December 1, 2017 – June 6, 2018)

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (June 27–September 30, 2018)

Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Light Work, Syracuse, NY (August 27–October 18, 2018)

Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, MA (September 10–December 13, 2018)

Family Pictures, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (September 14, 2018 – January 20, 2019)

Heave, 2018 Cornell University Biennial, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (September 20, 2018–November 5, 2018)

Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (January 13, 2019–May 5, 2019)

Carrie Mae Weems II Over Time, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (September 7, 2019–October 5, 2019)

Awards

2005: Distinguished Photographers Award

2007: Anonymous Was A Woman Award

2013: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award

2013: MacArthur Fellow, "Genius" Award

2014: BET Visual Arts Award

2014: Lucie Award

2015: ICP Spotlights Award from the International Center of Photography.

2015: Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow

2015: W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University

2015: Honorary Doctorate from the School of Visual Arts

2016: National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center

2016: Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theatre

2016: College Arts Association

2016: DeFINE ART

2016: Art of Change Fellow, Ford Foundation

2017: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University

2017: Inga Maren Otto Fellowship, The Watermill Center

2019: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol.

Publications

Carrie Mae Weems : The Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.), 1995.

Carrie Mae Weems : Image Maker, 1995.

Carrie Mae Weems : Recent Work, 1992––1998, 1998.

Carrie Mae Weems: In Louisiana Project, 2004.

Carrie Mae Weems: Constructing History, 2008.

Carrie Mae Weems : Social Studies, 2010.

Carrie Mae Weems : Three Decades of Photography and Video, 2012.

Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series, 2016.

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LOOK MORE CLOSELY. Berry Campbell is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by the renowned Abstract Expressionist painter, Perle Fine (1905-1988) newly acclaimed for her inclusion in the 9th Street Show (1951). Recently, Richard Prince chose “Movement Left and Right”(1947) from the vaults of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for his curated section of the exhibition, “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection.” This exhibition at Berry Campbell focuses on Perle Fine’s Accordment Series (1969-1978) and includes several prominent examples that have not been exhibited since the artist’s 1978 retrospective exhibition at Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton. “Perle Fine: The Accordment Series (1969-1978)” will open with a reception on Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 6 to 8 pm and will continue through March 14, 2020. [Perle Fine “Cerulean Neon” c. 1970 oil on canvas 68 x 68 inches] #perlefine #fine #womenofabstractexpressionism #abstractart #9thstreetshow #accordment #accordmentseries #expressionism #minimalism #thegrid #guildhall #hamptonsart #thesprings #andrezarregallery #1970s #5womenartists #openingnight #thursdaynight #vipevent #chelseagalleries #nycart #estaterepresentation #womenartists #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/B77iyFilANQ/?igshid=1jvgkz53ck7t4

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, New York June 27, 2019

1. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

2. “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now” exhibit.

3. “Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat” exhibit.

4. “Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story” exhibit.

5. “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection” exhibit.

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Guggenheim Hires First Full-Time Black Curator

At a time when museums all over the country are trying to increase the number of people of color on its staff, boards and walls, the Guggenheim Museum has hired its first full-time black curator: Ashley James.

Ms. James, who this week started on the job as the museum’s associate curator of contemporary art, was most recently an assistant curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she was a moving force behind the acclaimed exhibition “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.”

“Her work complements the Guggenheim’s mission to present the art of today,” Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s artistic director and chief curator, said in a statement, “which we understand as a deep and expansive view of art history.”

Before coming to the Brooklyn Museum, Ms. James was a Mellon Curatorial Fellow in the Museum of Modern Art’s drawings and prints department, where she focused on retrospectives of the artists Adrian Piper and Charles White. Ms. James has also held positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Yale University Art Gallery. In the spring, she will receive a Ph.D. from Yale in English Literature, African-American Studies, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies.

“I am eager to begin work with my colleagues to develop new research, explore new ideas for exhibitions, programs and publications,” Ms. James said in a statement, “and continue to expand and shape such a vital collection.”

The appointment coincides with recent frictions in the Guggenheim’s relationship with a guest curator, the art historian Chaédria LaBouvier, who organized the exhibition “Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story.” Speaking up recently at a museum panel discussion, Ms. LaBouvier, who is black, accused the Guggenheim of snubbing her and undermining her curatorial role by, among other things, not inviting her to participate in the Guggenheim’s panel discussion about Basquiat with other scholars who had contributed to her own catalog. Last summer she told The New York Times that she was cut out of other decisions on how the exhibition was to be presented and that her research had been shortchanged.

Ms. LaBouvier was the first black female curator to organize a solo exhibition at the museum in its 80-year history. The independent Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor was one of several organizers of a show on African photography in 1996 and the artists Carrie Mae Weems and Julie Mehretu are among six artist-curators in the current exhibition “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection,” running through January.

In a statement, the Guggenheim said, it “is proud to have presented the exhibition Basquiat’s “‘Defacement’: The Untold Story,” curated by Chaédria LaBouvier based upon her original and groundbreaking research.”

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Photographer: Carrie Mae Weems (1953 – Present)

Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist that is known for her photography. Her project The Kitchen Table Series was her breakthrough. Her art focuses and provides commentary on issues facing African Americans: racism, sexism, personal identity, etc. Weems is one of six artist-curators who made selections for Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2019/20.

Photo: The Kitchen Table Series

The Kitchen Table Series was shot very simply using a wooden table and an overhead light. The pictures were simple and were shot in black and white, but what I found very fascinating is that the photographer, Weem, was in the photographs. In the photo I picked, you can see the woman smoking and the man rubbing his face while looking at (but not reading) the newspaper. They look distressed as if something is bothering them. Or as if they were just in a fight and were too exhausted to talk anymore, so they were ignoring each other.

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Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection

"The first-ever artist-curated exhibition mounted at the Guggenheim celebrates the museum’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art. Curated by Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, and Carrie Mae Weems— artists who each have had influential solo shows at the museum—Artistic License brings together both well-known and rarely seen works from the turn of the century to 1980. Each artist was invited to make selections to shape a discrete presentation, one on each of the six levels of the rotunda. With the museum’s curators and conservators, they searched through the collection in storage, encountering renowned masterpieces while also finding singular contributions by less-prominent figures. ..."

Guggenheim (Video)

NY Times: The Guggenheim’s Collection, as Seen by Six Art Stars

WSJ - ‘Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection’ Review: An Artist-Led Sampler

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Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection Guggenheim Museum May 24, 2019 - October 27, 2020 “ Carrie Mae Weems uses her presentation on the Rotunda Level 5, “What Could Have Been,” as a conduit to challenge the historical exclusion and marginalization of racial minorities from museum collections.” “Unlike most permanent collection surveys, “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection” puts a group of unusual curators at the helm: six contemporary artists, each of whom have had a solo show at the museum. They each have populate one of the six ramps in the museum’s rotunda with their individual curatorial takes on the Guggenheim’s collection. The challenge? The artist-curators can only select works from the turn of the century up until 1980, causing them to ponder certain gaps in the collection and inherent biases within the art-historical canon. The exhibition, which opened on Friday, May 24, marks the first artist-curated show ever mounted at the museum.” Read on: https://www.google.com/amp/s/observer.com/2019/05/six-artists-guggenheim-museum-exhibition-collection-artist-curators-review/amp/ Join the Guggenheim Museum for a series of conversations with the six artist-curators of Artistic License on select Tuesdays from June 18–December 17, 6:30 pm. #CaiGuo-Qiang #PaulChan #JennyHolzer #JulieMehretu #RichardPrince #CarrieMaeWeems #historicalexclusion #marginalization #artists #curator #museum #tuckercontemporaryart (at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvCK8cl8K8/?igshid=17567kqis4voo

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#np Introduction to “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection” by Guggenheim Museum http://bit.ly/2EtKEz0

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Event | Doctor’s Hours for Visual & Multidisciplinary Artists with Museum Curators

June 17 event will offer individual consultations with museum curators.

Are you in need of some career advice? The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce an upcoming session of Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists, a program designed to provide artists with practical and professional advice from arts consultants. Artists working in the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art are encouraged to participate.

Starting Monday, May 20 at 11:00 AM EST, you can register for 20-minute, one-on-one appointments with up to three museum curators to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

Title: Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists with Museum Curators Program Date and Time: Monday, June 17, 2019, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location: The New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn NY, 11201 Cost: $38 per 20-minute appointment; three appointments limit per artist Register: Register here to participate

To make the most of your Doctor’s Hours appointment, read our Tips & FAQs. For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Can’t join us on June 17? You can book a one-on-one remote consultation with an arts professional via Doctor’s Hours On Call.

Consultants

Francesca Altamura, Curatorial Assistant, New Museum Altamura is a curator and a New Yorker who holds a MFA degree in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a MA degree with Honors in History of Art from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. At the New Museum, she recently curated Sydney Shen: Onion Master in the Window Gallery (on view until July 28) and is co-curating, with Curator Margot Norton, Diedrick Brackens’ forthcoming solo Lobby Gallery presentation, darling divined (June 4 - September 8). She has assisted on exhibitions including Nari Ward: We the People; Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel; John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire; Thomas Bayrle: Playtime; the 2018 New Museum Triennial Songs for Sabotage; and Strange Days: Memories of the Future, an off-site exhibit held in conjunction with The Store X Vinyl Factory at 180 The Strand in London. Learn more about Altamura on her website and Instagram account, @itmefrankig.

Ylinka Barotto, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum Since joining the curatorial staff in 2014, Barotto has assisted on such large-scale modern and postwar retrospective exhibitions as Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting (2015); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016); Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (2017), which showcased masterworks from the Guggenheim’s modern collection; and Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897 (2017), for which she contributed to the catalogue text entries on many of the show’s artists. Barotto provided curatorial support for Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (2018), and at present is assisting on Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection (2019–20), the first artist-curated exhibition ever mounted at the museum. In addition to her involvement with the exhibition program, Barotto is one of the organizing curators for the Young Collectors Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the museum’s permanent collection. She has also hosted conversations with contemporary artists, activists, and journalists on topics such as feminism, activism, and identity and representation. Barotto received a MA degree in curatorial and museum studies at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, and she is currently working toward a MA degree in art history at Hunter College, City University of New York, with a focus on postwar and contemporary feminism.

Barbara Paris Gifford, Assistant Curator, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Paris Gifford is an Assistant Curator with a focus on Fashion and Contemporary Jewelry at MAD in New York City. During the past five years, she has served as part of the curatorial team for several exhibitions and various mediums, including La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border (jewelry), Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture (fashion), Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years (ceramics), and Ebony Patterson: buried again to carry on growing… (contemporary art and jewelry). Gifford is curating two upcoming MAD exhibitions, The World of Anna Sui (fashion), which opens in September 2019, and 45 Stories in Jewelry, opening in February 2020. She has written for many publications including Metalsmith Magazine, Modern Magazine, The Journal of Modern Craft, and for the catalogs La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border, Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, and Ralph Pucci: The Art of The Mannequin. She holds a MA degree in the History of the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture from Bard Graduate Center.

Sophia Marisa Lucas, Assistant Curator, Queens Museum Lucas recently organized Queens International 2018: Volumes, the eighth iteration of the museum’s biannual exhibition of Queens-based artists. The exhibition comprised a partnership with the Queens Library including installations in branches and system-wide programming. Lucas has also co-organized QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship exhibitions by Sable Elyse Smith (2017) and Julia Weist (2017) with Hitomi Iwasaki and supported Larissa Harris on Maintenance Art (2016), a museum-wide retrospective of Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Previously, she contributed to exhibitions and programming at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; The Artist’s Institute, New York; and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. She is currently working with QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship recipient American Artist on a solo project (forthcoming October 2019).

Jocelyn Miller, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1 Miller, a member of MoMA PS1’s curatorial team since 2011, is currently organizing the upcoming exhibition Julie Becker: I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent at MoMA PS1. She recently organized Elena Lopez Riera: Those Who Desire (2019); Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970-1980 and Body Armor (both 2018); Past Skin (2017); and Meriem Bennani: FLY (2016), all at MoMA PS1. She also organized Projects 106: Martine Syms at The Museum of Modern Art (2017). Miller has co-organized solo exhibitions with Titus Kaphar, Reza Abdoh, Naeem Mohaiemen, Ian Cheng, Mark Leckey, Cao Fei, and Simon Denny, as well as career retrospectives of the artists Maria Lassnig and James Lee Byars, the latter both at MoMA PS1 and Museo Jumex, Mexico City. She serves as Editorial Manager for MoMA PS1’s curatorial department, overseeing museum publications, and served as Editor for the 2015 “Greater New York: Readers” series. She received her BA degree in Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

Nelson Santos, Interim Director of Curatorial Programs, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Santos has over 20 years of experience in the arts, advocacy, and non-profit sector, including leading the vision of a non-profit art organization with a social justice mission. He has worked with artists, creative thinkers, and community partners to produce and present public programs, exhibitions, visual art projects, and publications that embrace difference, dialogue, and inclusion. As an artist, educator, curator, and organizer, Santos believes art has the power to provoke, inspire, and unite. He has a history of successfully fostering new and innovative programs that reach diverse audiences and is a respected leader in the art, social justice, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ communities. Santos is on the Board of Directors of the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) and Queer|Art|Mentorship. 

Ana Torok, Curatorial Assistant, Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art Torok is a curator and art historian based in New York City, specializing in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her MA degree in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her BA degree from Barnard College, Columbia University. Prior to working as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, she worked in the curatorial departments of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art while organizing exhibitions independently.

Ambika Trasi, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art Trasi is an artist and arts organizer based in Brooklyn. Her work examines how coloniality of power is perpetuated, packaged, and sold in contemporary culture, and the role that memory, language, technology, and ritual play in decolonizing and identity-making in the diaspora. As Managing Director of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) from 2013-2017, she co-organized and assisted in the curation of performance-related exhibitions and public programs held at Asia Society, The 56th Venice Biennale, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hunter College Art Galleries, the inaugural Seattle Art Fair, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. As a board member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) since 2016, she organized exhibitions presented at Queens Museum (2016) and Abrons Arts Center (2017). Trasi has a BFA degree in studio art from New York University, with a minor in South Asian studies.

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  Friday, September 27th 

-RH Store (9 9th Avenue in Meatpacking District)

–Whitney Biennial (revisit for haunting movie of NYC apartment in snow):

-dinner at Bubby’s in Meatpacking District 73 Gansevoort St.[Highline] New York, NY 10014

– Metropolitan Museum of Art (late night Member Preview) 8:30 p.m. Camp: Notes on Fashion (late views)

Saturday, September 28th

– Metropolitan Museum of Art

Apollo’s Muse: 

Article from the NYTimes on the Apollo Muse

Leonardo DaVinci’s St.Jerome

Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination

-Taiji Body Work NYC- Manhattan

Sunday,September 29th

-Guggenheim:

Mapplethorpe Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now

Basquiat’s “Defacement”: The Untold Story:

Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection:  

SoHo:

–    Laduree 398 West Broadway, NYC 10012

–    Mulberry Iconic Magazine (188 Mulberry Street, SoHo/Bowery)

–    SoHo News International (corner of Sullivan & Prince Streets)

-Lunch @ Lucky Strike 59 Grand Street, NYC 10013 Where to go when you’re in the mood for a martini, onion soup that is made French bistro style and an endive salad!!!

-Train to D.C.

Travel stylishly, Kathleen

Weekend Itinerary: NYC Friday, September 27th  -RH Store (9 9th Avenue in Meatpacking District) -Whitney Biennial (revisit for haunting movie of NYC apartment in snow):

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NY Mysteries June 28, 2019

NY Mysteries June 28, 2019

A friend and I went to Artistic License at the Guggenheim. Six artists who had all been shown at the Collection became curators and chose art that they cherished, including some of their own works. We strolled up the spiral ramp to the top floor, taking time to look at various exhibits tucked into the nooks and crannies. These included Basquiat’s “Defacement” and Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe…

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What to Do in New York This Weekend

What to Do in New York This Weekend

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

‘Artistic License’

Oh, the places you will go when six stars of the art world organize an exhibition from the collection of the Guggenheim Museum. It’s “a provocative, six-sided conversation,” Roberta Smith wrote in her review of “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection.” She calls is “a rare, dazzling, dizzying cornucopia of objects, viewpoints and…

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to Mount its First Artist-curated Exhibition

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to Mount its First Artist-curated Exhibition

New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will host “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection,” the first artist-curated exhibition ever mounted at the museum, on view from May 24, 2019, through January 12, 2020.This full-rotunda presentation celebrates “the Guggenheim’s extensive collection of twentieth-century modern and contemporary artworks, with an exhibition selected by six…