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February is Black History Month, and we’re showcasing just a few examples from our collections on contemporary American Black artists. More to come throughout this month, so stay tuned!
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Roberts, Deborah, 1962- [artist, interviewee]
[2021]
HOLLIS number: 99156414672603941
Dawoud Bey in dialogue Carrie Mae Weems
Platt, Ron, 1959- [author]
[2022]
HOLLIS number: 99156378937603941
Hank Willis Thomas : all things being equal ...
Hank Willis Thomas (Aperture Foundation)
2018
HOLLIS number: 99153724906803941
Spiritualità e femminismo nero nell'arte pubblica di Simone Leigh
Salgó, Eszter [author]
[2020]
HOLLIS number: 99155201738303941
#BlackHistoryMonth#ContemporaryBlackArtists#BlackArtists#SimoneLeigh#DawoudBey#CarrieMaeWeems#DeborahRoberts#HankWillisThomas#HarvardFineArtsLibrary#Fineartslibrary#Harvard#HarvardLibrary#ContemporaryArtists
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Afro-Atlantic Histories charts the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies in the African diaspora. Through a series of dialogues across time, the exhibition features artworks produced in Africa, Europe, and the Americas in the last four centuries to reexamine—from a global perspective—histories and stories of enslavement, resilience, and the struggle for liberation. The exhibition is organized around six groupings: Maps and Margins, Enslavements and Emancipations, Everyday Lives, Rites and Rhythms, Portraits, and Resistances and Activism. Each section considers the critical impact of the African diaspora reflected in historic and contemporary artworks. Histórias Afro-Atlânticas originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil, in 2018. Touring venues in the U.S. include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. This is the only presentation on the West Coast. #hankwillisthomas #betyesaar #faithringgold #glenligon #bennyandrews #jammieholmes #romairebearden (at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp1PxNBrkFf2tWB-vsbrF9yd84jcirkCsEFcNM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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“Everything we see hides another thing,” 2022, polished bronze sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas on view at Jack Shainman Gallery. I like the reference to Magritte’s 1928 painting “The Lovers II,” pictured second. Hank Willis Thomas is showing in both Shainman gallery spaces and is on view through October 29th. #hankwillisthomas #sculpture #bronze #bronzesculpture #jackshainmangallery #magritte #renemagritte #thelovers #arthistory #contemporaryart (at Jack Shainman Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci71WJPriDN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#hankwillisthomas#sculpture#bronze#bronzesculpture#jackshainmangallery#magritte#renemagritte#thelovers#arthistory#contemporaryart
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⚖️#ArtIsAWeapon "Artists have the ability to depict the humanity and the dignity of people, even in the midst of something brutal and violent ... It's a tough subject. It's a challenging subject. And we wanted to use art to help people manage the weight of this history and engage in a more complete way with the lives of enslaved people." - Lawyer, Social Justice Activist, Founder of Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org Bryan Stevenson @bryanstevenson1959 .
🎥 reposted from @cbssundaymorning
"An Alabama sculpture park evokes the painful history of slavery" by Mark Witaker March 17, 2024
"In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the #FreedomMonumentSculpturePark, the vision of lawyer and social activist #BryanStevenson.
The 17-acre park, set to open this month, is filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world-famous artists like Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh. and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, collectively evoking the history of slavery in America...
It's the latest project for Stevenson, founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), also based in Montgomery. For more than 30 years, Stevenson and his team have provided legal services to people on death row, to date helping overturn more than 140 convictions and sentences. He said understanding the racial injustices of the present begins by reckoning with the tortured legacy of the past."
#WillTravelForArt #Sculpture #BlackArtists #SocialJustice
#BryanStevenson#ArtIsAWeapon#SocialJustice#EqualJusticeInitiative#BlackArtists#BlackGirlArtGeeks#Freedom Monument Sculpture Park#HankWillisThomas
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"All power to all people" I was minding my business on one of my long NOLA walks when this giant afro pick caught my eye...🖤🙆🏿🙅🏿♀️ #hankwillisthomas #nolastreetart #blackstreetart #blackstreetartists #poofbeegoneblog (at Lafayette Square) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf-Vw5-ggKY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Hank Willis Thomas, Jasper Johns, Childe Hassam and Gordon Parks. Four takes on the flag. May there be space for all in the discussion. Happy 4th of July. #hankwillisthomas #jasperjohns #childeHassam #gordonparks (at Dutchess County, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfmV5gMpz8e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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americans4arts: About last night…
We were thrilled to host the 2022 National Arts Awards at @guastavinosnyc and honor artists and activists who are spurring social change. The event celebrated and demonstrated the power and fundamental importance of the arts, with a hopeful eye toward the future of creative achievement.
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Joy Harjo @joyharjoforreal
Presented by Dr. Elizabeth Alexander @ alexanderlizzy
Ted Arison Young Artist Award:
Darren Criss @ darrencriss
Presented by Lea Salonga @ msleasalonga
Marina Kellen French Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award:
For Freedoms @forfreedoms — founders @hankwillisthomas, @ wyattgallery, @michelinwoo and @ericgottesman
Presented by Jesse Williams @ ijessewilliams
Philanthropy in the Arts Award:
Robert F. Smith @robertfredericksmith
Presented by Jon Batiste @jonbatiste
Arts Education Award:
The Gordon Parks Foundation @gordonparksfoundation
Presented by LaToya Ruby Frazier @latoya_ruby_frazier
Featured artist: José Parlá @ joseparla
Performance by @ youngarts alumni @jaylachee, @jakegoldbas, @sophiakickhofel, @blainekr and @yesbergerplease.
Thank you to event chair @saraharison and everyone who attended and supported this year’s event! #NationalArtsAwards
#darren criss#mama criss#mia swier#michael samonte#lea salonga#nelon bivens#americans for the arts#national arts awards#instagram#video#oct 2022
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Now We See It! 💕💫
At the heart of the Boston Common, two sets of bronze arms are now forever locked in a hug. This new sculpture by artist @hankwillisthomas @hankwillisthomas in collaboration with @massdesigngroup, which was selected in a competition set forth by local nonprofit Embrace Boston, represents much more than just a commemoration of their lives; it is a monument to love. Appropriately titled "The Embrace," the 38,000-pound, 20-foot-high, and 25-foot-wide monument’s limbs belong to Coretta Scott King and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., captured during an intimate, congratulatory moment in 1964 when Dr. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Photo courtesy of @massdesigngroup
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Hank Willis Thomas
New York 2023: The Brooklyn Bridge https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2023/07/new-york-2023-brooklyn-bridge.html #HankWillisThomas #Brooklyn #NYC
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#theembrace #retxed #lol #mlk #hankwillisthomas #retxed70 #dgs
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@hankwillisthomas @benbrownfinearts (at Ben Brown Fine Arts Palm Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmrzKUmOTAe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Hank Willis Thomas,” A Suspension of Hostilities,” 2019, plus a .gif of the cultural reference point, for those who may not know: a redneckily heroic, indestructible muscle car named the “General Lee,” which was airborne at some point in every episode of “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a weekly “action-comedy” series on CBS from 1979 to 1985. It took the Charleston church massacre of 2015 for Warner Bros. to stop producing show-related merchandise with the Confederate flag on it, and the death of George Floyd for Amazon to finally remove the series from its video streaming services earlier this year. Mr. Thomas’ work presents a fitting, abruptly destructive end to the seemingly eternal ascension of the General Lee, and to the cultural associations attached thereto.
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🎨🙌🏿 #ArtIsAWeapon
I am so excited about seeing "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (through July 7)!
Read: "The Secrets of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Museum-Ready Art Collection" in @vanityfair
www.vanityfair.com/style/alicia-keys-swizz-beatz-art-collection
@aliciakeys @therealswizzz @thedeancollection @brooklynmuseum
www.BrooklynMuseum.org
▪︎Reposted from @vanityfair Presenting our spring digital cover stars, @Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz (@therealswizzz).
With their envy-inducing holdings, @theDeanCollection, the music-industry power couple have helped lead the way for a generation of collectors of Black art. The rest of the world is finally catching up.
"A lot of people used to make fun of me collecting art," Swizz tells VF. "I won't say no names, but they're the biggest names."
At the link in bio, the duo speaks to VF about their collection's first major museum exhibition, creating a network of Black artists, and dancing the art world's political tango.
Story by @nfreeman1234
Photographed by @renellaice
Styled by @jasonbolden
Hair: Nai'vasha @Naivashaintl
Makeup: Ayako @studio_ayako
▪︎Reposted from @therealswizzz A Family Affair with Vanityfair 🤍 GIANTS 🤍 This moment is so amazing to share with all the creatives 🙏🏽 Thank you VF for supporting the ARTS 🤍 Sky is not the limits it’s just the view ⚡️ Go see GIANTS by The Dean Collection at @brooklynmuseum if you didn’t already 🤍 Big Love
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Photographed by @renellaice
Set Design by @laurennikrooz
Makeup + Grooming by @bobscott200 (artists) @regdabarber grooming for SB
Produced by @meeeeems_ @courtneycl styled by @jasonbolden Hair: @Naivashaintl
Makeup: Ayako @studio_ayako
Nails: @nailglam
Tailor: @Nychincilla @brooklynmuseum The Giant Artist in the shoot @anamibia
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#BlackArt #BlackArtists #BlackArtLovers #BlackGirlArtGeeks
#TheDeanCollection#Giants#BrooklynMuseum#VanityFair#SwizzBeatz#AliciaKeys#BlackArt#BlackArtLovers#BlackArtists#BlackArtCollectors#GiantsExhibit#GiantsBKMuseum#ArtIsAWeapon#BlackGirlArtGeeks
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Hank Willis Thomas is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist who focuses on themes of identity, the media, and popular culture. Thomas’s site-specific neon sculpture Love Rules, here in the main lobby, welcomes visitors to the Museum. The artist explains the work’s personal meaning: "I grew up in a family where love overruled. My cousin, Songha Willis, was murdered in Philadelphia in 2000. A month after he died, I found a recording of the incident, and his last words were “love over rules.”⠀⠀
Installation view, Something to Say: Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Deborah Kass, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Hank Willis Thomas, (LOVE RULES, Hank Willis Thomas). Brooklyn Museum, October 3, 2018 – June 30, 2019. Photo Jonathan Dorado⠀
#something to say#hankwillisthomas#hank willis thomas#love#conceptual artist#words#language#art#artist#art museum#brooklyn museum#neon#loby#Songha willis#last words#highlight#brooklyn#nyc#sign#loveoverules#love over rules
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