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30 Americans at the Corcoran is a beautiful, emotional, overwhelming and highly satisfying exhibit. Last night’s opening was also one of the best I’ve ever been to at the Corcoran. The crowd was also more ethnically and racially diverse than I’ve ever seen at a Corcoran party. Coincidence?
I think that the positive energy that the Rubells emit is part of it, but it’s also the artists’ work and the story it tells about America and who we are today. The demographic changes of the last decades and those yet to come, don’t always square with what we see reflected in the traditional/institutional art world be it artists, gallery and museum professionals, art historians and critics, collectors and others.
To see 60-plus works from 31 African-American artists that span several generations drives home the sense that we need more shows like 30 Americans and we need to support ways for paths to those possibilities to be created, navigated and supported for all artists who don’t have access to them because of race, ethnicity, class, or economic status.
30 Americans at the Corcoran Gallery of Art opens to the public on October 1st and runs through February 2012.
I think I could make this my quarterly paid museum visit. and, to finally see Kara Walker again… yeah, I’m going!
and The Post’s straddle-the-fence review of the show: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/30-americans-a-challenging-study-of-identity/2011/09/28/gIQAHTnaAL_story.html?hpid=z4
Source: dcdocent
Source: dcdocentWarhol—-still relevant, still setting bars, still creating headlines—-and opening at two major DC museums on the same day (TODAY). The National Gallery of Art’s exhibit Warhol: Headlines ”…will define and bring together works that the artist based largely on headlines from the tabloid…
As part of its ongoing tribute to the 150th anniversary of the Italian Republic, the National Gallery of Art continues its summer lecture series with Italian Futurism: Expressing the Energy of the Modern World today at 2pm in the East Building Auditorium.
My suggestion to you is to make a day…
thats why there’s been so much Italian stuff over there… good reccos!
Source: dcdocent
Source: buildingmuseumA fascinating image documenting where people are tweeting and uploading flickr images in DC.
“What’s interesting to me about DC is the juxtaposition of Black owner occupied houses and condo’s especially near Georgia Petworth and the lack of political will to ensure that Black home owners can remain in the city.
Wouldn’t it logically follow that Black politicians in the district have a vested interest in insuring that these residents, their base, remain here, if they want to be re-elected? I am not saying that Black people automatically vote for other Black folks, some do some don’t. I am asking where is the conversation? What explains the lack of political will?
What I am saying is that the lack of a vision and a willingness to address the strong possibility that African Americans will be taxed out of their homes needs to be interrogated.
Lot’s of conversations about gentrification are ahistorical. That is because most journalist are not historians.”
hmm, brain food
Source: theycallmezorawalker
Source: dcdocentI had the privilege once, of introducing an aging British rocker to go-go music when he visited DC in the late 90s/early aughts. It was challenging to describe the music to him before we actually saw it—even though I’ve lived here most of my life, I still have a hard time describing go-go to outsiders—but once he saw it on stage he understood it.
The photography in (Un)Lock It: The Percussive People in the Go-Go Pocket not only tells you, but shows you the music, the people behind it, and the spirit of it all.
Through October 7th at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, 2208 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE. The gallery is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. For information, call 202-365-8392.
