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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Congratulations to LaToya Ruby Frazier for being selected as a 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellow!
LaToya’s project, “Living with Lupus Under COVID-19 in America,” will use photography, video, and audio storytelling artwork to tell the story of the intersection between racial injustice, environmental racism, and unequal access to medical care. The story will be told through LaToya’s experience as a person living with Lupus while the world faces an unprecedented global pandemic.
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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To survey new flower paintings by Alex Katz, click the link in the bio.
“One almost feels abashed for liking the work so much, for succumbing to endearments so visually primal, to a style so honored to its essence. Yet this seems to describe why we’re drawn to landscapes in the first place and why flowers seduce us all.” — Tom Breidenbach in his review of Alex Katz at Pace Wildenstein, Artforum, December 2003
Image: Alex Katz, “Red Dogwood 2,” oil on linen, 2020.
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“Frazier has always addressed the untenability of how things are with an art that pushes beyond the purview of representation, one that prioritizes the assembly of communities and archives over commodities.” 🖇 Click the link in the bio to read @artforum’s review of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s exhibition, “The Last Cruze,” at @wexarts.
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TOMORROW / KING OF ARMS ART BALL 6 / JULY 10, 8 PM EST
Rashaad Newsome continues the tradition of a ball, a historic Harlem-originating competition featuring lavish adornment and dance, where performers will transform the categories into themes based exclusively on the work and legacy of Black artists who have responded to systems of white supremacy.
A cohort of international performers will compete for their respective categories and tie together the global landscape of the vogue and ballroom scenes.
This year’s first virtual edition of the King of Arms Art Ball 6 will be hosted on The Shed’s Youtube Live. ✨ For more details about this event, click the link in the bio.
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“Although flower painting is normally a subcategory of still life, Katz's flowers are not typically still life. These are not cut flowers in a vase on a tabletop. Neither are they mere incidents in a landscape, but they are outdoor blooms, alive and growing. And the space in which they are growing is not domestically scaled space - not even that of a backyard garden. On the contrary, the space conjured by these paintings seems vast.” – Barry Schwabsky, "The Way Things Look: Alex Katz's Recent Work"
🍃Click the link in the bio to view more flower painting by Alex Katz in our latest presentation.
Image: Alex Katz, “Goldenrod yellow on lavender,” oil on linen, 2020.
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“My works often show women looking straight at the viewer. They are seen, but they also see, thus forcing a dialogue with the onlooker and taking up space. These figures are not to be forgotten or to be walked past without a form of engagement. My collages should not evoke comfort.” 💬 To read the full interview with Frida Orupabo in @bombmag, click the link in the bio.
Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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FRIDAY / KING OF ARMS ART BALL 6 / JULY 10, 8 PM EST
Rashaad Newsome’s King of Arms Art Ball 6 is a semi-annual event that has brought together renowned figures from the LGBTQ+ ballroom community with luminaries from the worlds of art, fashion, music, literary, and activism since 2013.
This historic moment will joyfully resist systematic racism felt on a global scale. It will be a call to arms to celebrate and uplift the creative spirit of POC’s, with an emphasis on the black queer community through performance, visuals, and sound. It will be in support and recognition of the ongoing All Black Lives Matter movement.
🌟 To RSVP to this free digital event, click the link in the bio. Following the ball, the after party will be hosted by @rashaadnewsome on Instagram Live.
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Karl Holmqvist / “Existential Staircase / Existenzielles Treppenhaus” / Fridericianum ➰ This site-specific work reflects life’s elemental questions, circulating with increased intensity in the wake of the current pandemic. @fridericianum
Photos: Andrea Rossetti / Nicolas Wefers
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Click the link in the bio to explore our latest presentation of flower paintings by Alex Katz.
“In a Katz painting, style—the way it’s painted—is the primary element. His confident, crisply articulated technique makes us see the world the way he sees it, clear and up close, with all but the most essential details pared away. Even today, Katz’s style is too stripped down for some people, who think it looks easy. ‘My work is like pablum to them,’ he tells me. ‘You know, pretty girls, flowers, you can’t be serious. I refuse to make sincere art. Sincere art is art that relies on subject matter to carry it. An honest painter is one who doesn’t paint very well. And it shows!’ (Another wide grin.) Katz, as critics have increasingly come to realize, is a very good painter.” — Calvin Tomkins, “Alex Katz’s Life in Art,” New Yorker, August 2018
Image: Alex Katz, “Dogwood in Yellow (Penn),” oil on linen, 2020.
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FRIDAY / KING OF ARMS ART BALL 6 / JULY 10, 8 PM EST
Rashaad Newsome Studio’s annual KING OF ARMS ART BALL 6 will be a virtual ballroom experience presented on The Shed’s YouTube Live. We’re co-supporting this edition alongside SOMArts, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, LA County Museum of Art, and The Shed.
This year’s ball is hosted by Jack Mizrahii with music by MikeQ and commentators Juss Precious and Kevin Jz. Categories include: the best of the best in Face, Commentator vs. Commentator, Hands Performance, Old Way, and Femme Queen Performance. Only a select few will be chosen to walk.
All categories are open to all except the Vogue Femme Performance. This category is only open to black and brown trans and or gender non-conforming persons.
There is no grand prize. All categories are $1,000 each. The judges panel will be announced closer to the event.
Click the link in the bio for more details about the category list.
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In Alex Katz’s new flower paintings, the view is close up and the background is vast. Katz depicts flowers alone and in small groups, referencing the very first flower paintings he made in the 60s. However, these new paintings are made with an aggressive, deliberate simplicity that we’ve come to know in Katz’s most recent works. He has returned to these goldenrods, dogwoods, lilies and tulips each summer in Maine for over sixty years. At 92 years old, his lived experience and clear vision enables Katz to paint flowers unlike ever done before. He gives us the essence of the flower, allowing us to see how he sees unlike ever before.
🌷 Click the link in the bio to explore our new presentation.
Image: Alex Katz, “Purple Tulips 1,” oil on linen, 2020. Posting times
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To survey new flower paintings by Alex Katz, click the link in the bio.
“One almost feels abashed for liking the work so much, for succumbing to endearments so visually primal, to a style so honored to its essence. Yet this seems to describe why we’re drawn to landscapes in the first place and why flowers seduce us all.” — Tom Breidenbach in his review of Alex Katz at Pace Wildenstein, Artforum, December 2003
Image: Alex Katz, “Red Dogwood 2,” oil on linen, 2020. analysis
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“Although flower painting is normally a subcategory of still life, Katz's flowers are not typically still life. These are not cut flowers in a vase on a tabletop. Neither are they mere incidents in a landscape, but they are outdoor blooms, alive and growing. And the space in which they are growing is not domestically scaled space - not even that of a backyard garden. On the contrary, the space conjured by these paintings seems vast.” – Barry Schwabsky, "The Way Things Look: Alex Katz's Recent Work"
🍃Click the link in the bio to view more flower painting by Alex Katz in our latest presentation.
Image: Alex Katz, “Goldenrod yellow on lavender,” oil on linen, 2020. analysis
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Congratulations to LaToya Ruby Frazier for being selected as a 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellow!
LaToya’s project, “Living with Lupus Under COVID-19 in America,” will use photography, video, and audio storytelling artwork to tell the story of the intersection between racial injustice, environmental racism, and unequal access to medical care. The story will be told through LaToya’s experience as a person living with Lupus while the world faces an unprecedented global pandemic.
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To survey new flower paintings by Alex Katz, click the link in the bio.
“One almost feels abashed for liking the work so much, for succumbing to endearments so visually primal, to a style so honored to its essence. Yet this seems to describe why we’re drawn to landscapes in the first place and why flowers seduce us all.” — Tom Breidenbach in his review of Alex Katz at Pace Wildenstein, Artforum, December 2003
Image: Alex Katz, “Red Dogwood 2,” oil on linen, 2020. analysis
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In Alex Katz’s new flower paintings, the view is close up and the background is vast. Katz depicts flowers alone and in small groups, referencing the very first flower paintings he made in the 60s. However, these new paintings are made with an aggressive, deliberate simplicity that we’ve come to know in Katz’s most recent works. He has returned to these goldenrods, dogwoods, lilies and tulips each summer in Maine for over sixty years. At 92 years old, his lived experience and clear vision enables Katz to paint flowers unlike ever done before. He gives us the essence of the flower, allowing us to see how he sees unlike ever before.
🌷 Click the link in the bio to explore our new presentation.
Image: Alex Katz, “Purple Tulips 1,” oil on linen, 2020. analysis
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Jul 28 2020 GMT15:07
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Congratulations to LaToya Ruby Frazier for being selected as a 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellow!
LaToya’s project, “Living with Lupus Under COVID-19 in America,” will use photography, video, and audio storytelling artwork to tell the story of the intersection between racial injustice, environmental racism, and unequal access to medical care. The story will be told through LaToya’s experience as a person living with Lupus while the world faces an unprecedented global pandemic.
@natgeo
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