ART:Richard Dupont @Tracey Williams, LTD.

Richard Dupont
Shadow Work

2 May – 28 June 2013

Opening reception: 2 May, 6-9 pm

In addition to Shadow Work at Tracy Williams, Ltd., Richard Dupont will present a simultaneous solo show at Carolina Nitsch Project Room, Going Around by Passing Through, opening also on May 2 from 6-8 pm. The exhibitions will run concurrently and will both consist of entirely new works in various media.

ARt:Christian Chaze/Time and Tide/April26th-June2nd/Max Beckman

Opening This Friday, April 26th: Christian Chaize | Time and Tide

La Lune 1, by Christian Chaize

Christian Chaize | Time and Tide
artist statement | images

Please join us this Friday, April 26th, from 6 to 8 p.m. for the opening reception of Time and Tide, an exhibition of photographs by Christian Chaize as well as a book signing. In May 2013, Chronicle Books will publish Time and Tide: Photographs from Praia Piquinia, an intimate and enchanting record of a single Portuguese beach over nine years. During the opening reception, Chaize will sign copies of the book, which will also be available for purchase. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, June 2nd.

Chaize’s series is a playful rendering of the passage of time through otherwise unphotographed (and therefore unobserved) changes to a landscape that is sometimes filled by sunbathers and swimmers, and sometimes by cliffs and surf alone. In the series’ ninth year, the artist developed a new obsession: photographing the beach by moonlight. His new and highly detailed “La Lune” images—composed of more than 4,500 individual photographs, assembled by the artist to create a final image more than seven feet wide and illuminated by light box—allow the familiar moon to fall to earth and engulf the viewer’s vision. By pairing daytime and nighttime images of the beach, the exhibition continues the artist’s tradition of elevating the known into the fantastic.

Click here to view images from the show.

JBG Artist Mike Sinclair Named 2013 Guggenheim Fellow

Lemon Shake Up, Strong City, Kansas 2003 by Mike Sinclair

We are thrilled to announce that Mike Sinlcair was named a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow. He joins a sterling and diverse list of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists. Often characterized as midcareer awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

Click here to view work by Sinclair.

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Art:Philip Taaffe/Luhring Augustine /May3rd

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Philip Taaffe
Recent Work
May 3 – June 15, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, May 2, 6 – 8pm
Luhring Augustine is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Philip Taaffe. The exhibition, the artist’s first solo show of paintings in New York in six years, continues to reveal Taaffe as a philosopher of painting, offering compelling meditations on art and culture, both contemporary and historical, and visual ruminations on the interrelated families of forms and images in art, architecture, and archaeology.

Taaffe’s work is a unique technical amalgam of freely gestural painting that is often contrasted with carefully mapped and measured surfaces, combined with printings from linocuts, hand-drawn relief plates, silkscreens, and stencils. Traditional techniques, such as paper marbling and gold leaf, are often employed. The artist’s meticulous, labor-intensive methods have often been compared to that of medieval manuscripts, yet their contemporary veracity is always evident in their broad embrace and appropriation of the language of modernism. As art historian Charles Stein notes, “Taaffe’s reinvention of the beautiful represents a kind of valiant inquiry, a conscientious refusal of the suppression of human possibility.”

In this current body of work, Taaffe returns to some of his familiar tropes but employs them in new, previously unseen ways. Sources include natural history illustrations, Roman mosaics, microscopic imaging of Viking artifacts, Syrian embroidery pattern books, masks from Mongolia and the Far East, and devices drawn from calligraphy and book design. Optical vibrancy and visual energy underlie these images, reconnecting abstraction to the natural world and exploring the convergence of the optical and conceptual. “I think the power and possibilities for painting today has to do with binding it to a cultural legacy,” says Taaffe. “Painting is where these symbolic languages or forms somehow crystallize and reveal their ancestry — and that in turn shows a certain sense of future possibility.”

Philip Taaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955 and studied at the Cooper Union under Hans Haacke and Dore Ashton. His first solo exhibition was held in New York in 1982. He has traveled widely in the Middle East, India, South America, and Morocco. He has been included in numerous important museum exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, two Sydney Biennials, and three Whitney Biennials. His work has been the subject of several museum surveys, including IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia (2000), the Galleria Civica, Trento (2001), the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2008), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2011). His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid. Taaffe presently resides and works in New York City.

Music:Of Montreal-skeletal lamping-Live and More -Coquett! Coquette!/Blondie- redux/Duran Duran on Speed/the Cars/the Smiths/-90′s video eclectic aesthetics meet 80′s melodies/Athens, Georgia

Of Montreal is very accessable in the way MGMT is or Duran Duran was in the New Wave Era..complex arrangements and lyrics simple delivery and an infectuious post Chic-era danceability

Rubric:Mcnally Jackson April days -Read a book yooz illiterate’s !events mid-late April -this place has great cafe food very fresh!

Events in mid-late April, 2013

Coming up in mid-late April:

Safe to say, we at McNally Jackson are all aboard Renata Adler’s Speedboat. And not just because it’s our Book of the Month. Why has it collectively captured us? And where is it taking us? Because one thing we think we know for sure, its many fun parts don’t add up. We refer you to page 40: ” [Their] boat having no refrigerator, the wife of Hans the father kept the vegetables in the bathtub. The priest, without removing even the lettuce, had taken his showers in that tub, over what was going to be half of dinner. They could not get over this. They thought of selling their boat again and returning to Geneva. The jet, the telephone, the boat, the train, the television. Dislocations.” Sound familiar? Not to us either. But this week, we’ve been wearing shorts when we should have been wearing pants, dining al fresco with storms on the horizon, and getting late summer burns from the early spring sun–more and more, we find Adler’s dislocations reflecting those of our own reality. Uncannier still, this month’s events seem also to revel in rupture, expose the machinery of our dreams, and play with the fun parts. The storm may or may not hit; the narrative may or may not cohere. Get on the boat anyway. Come!

- Stop in at McNally Jackson this Sunday for an inaugural Downtown Literary Festival: tales of the best music show ever from Thurston Moore and Elissa Schappell, discussions of NYC literary bohemianism with Katie Roiphe and Donald Antrim, and stories of the subway with John Wray and Charles Bock. Remember to invite your friends to the Russian literature-themed cocktail party at Pravda bar, 281 Lafayette Street. 7pm ’till late.
- Give your mind a work out and laugh your abs into shape with Sam Lipsyte and Nathaniel Rich on Wednesday, April 17th.
- Rachel Kushner discusses the New York art world, politics as performance, and what happens when revolution becomes real. With Joshua Ferris, author of And Then We Came to The End.
- And Matthew Specktor and Victor LaValle show us how the simulations of Hollywood sustain the illusion of an American dream. Don’t forget your popcorn.

Unless noted otherwise, events start at 7 pm. As always, they are first come, first serve, and free. No tickets or reservations are required. You can click here to send an email to the store requesting more information or to order a signed copy, or call us at (212) 274-1160 X3 with any questions or requests.

Tonight: Thursday, April 11th

The Teleportation Accident: An Evening with Ned Beauman

Past, present and future mingle in Ned Beauman’s terrific, Booker-nominated, genre-bending second novel — about how the best way of handling history might be to ignore it.

Sunday, April 14th, 10am to 5pm

Downtown Literary Festival: McNally Jackson Books and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
McNally Jackson and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe bring you the inaugural Downtown Literary Festival, a day long celebration of the literary culture of NYC. The festival will take place at both stores simultaneously, followed by a happy hour mingle at Housing Works and an after-party at Pravda, featuring Russian literature–themed cocktails. Will include stories about music by Alan Light, Elissa Schappell, Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and Nikolai Fraiture (the Strokes); a “Frank O’Hara lunch hour,” featuring the poets, Eileen Myles, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Paul Legault; a discussion around literary bohemianiasm in New York, with Katie Roiphe, Donald Antrim, and Lucas Wittman; tales of the subway, with John Wray, Charles Bock, Luc Sante and Sophie Blackall, and many other events at both venues.

http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/downtown-literary-festival-housing-works-bookstore-cafe-and-mcnally-jackson

Monday, April 15th
An evening with Fiona Maazel & Jennifer Gilmore

Join Fiona Maazel and Jennifer Gilmore for an evening of readings and conversation to celebrate their new novels: Woke Up Lonely and The Mothers, respectively.

Woke Up Lonely, Fiona Maazel’s first novel since being named a “5 Under 35″ choice by the National Book Foundation, focuses on Thurlow Dan who, mourning the departure of his former wife, founds Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness. Jennifer Gilmore’s The Mothers tells the story of a couple’s disappointment as they confront infertility and open adoption. Both writers’ books transport with heart-killing stories of human frailty, susceptibility, loyalty, and isolation.

Tuesday, April 16th
Gayle Forman & Julie Strauss-Gabel: A conversation

Join us for a teen lit event with Gayle Forman, the award-winning author of the novels If I Stay, Where She Went, and Just One Day. With Julie Strauss-Gabel, Forman’s editor and Vice President and Publisher of Dutton Children’s Books.

Wednesday, April 17th
Sam Lipsyte & Nathaniel Rich

Sam Lipsyte will read from his new story collection, The Fun Parts, and Nathaniel Rich from his new novel, Odds Against Tomorrow. In The Fun Parts, dazzling fables dance across the real and the fantastic to shock us into startling apprehensions of our mundane realities. Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow also deals in dark and disturbingly plausible futures, in which the protagonist is his own connoisseur of catastrophe. An evening to be missed only at your intellectual peril.

Thursday, April 18th

The Bridge: Serbo-Croation Translation
In the next instalment of The Bridge series, curators Sal Robinson and Bill Martin host an evening of readings and discussion with translators, Ellen Elias-Bursać, Nataša Milas, and Jennifer Zoble.
Monday, April 22nd

David Downie and Stephane Kirkland
Enjoy an evening with scholar, multilingual translator, and tour guide extraordinaire of Paris and Rome, David Downie, whose new book follows his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela via France. With an uncommon balance of historical appreciation and a relish for the coming thing, Downie treads age-old pathways to walk himself into a new life. With Stephane Kirkland, author of Paris Reborn.

Wednesday, April 24th
Rachel Kushner in conversation with Joshua Ferris
Rachel Kushner’s second novel, set in 70’s NYC, follows its impressionable young heroine, Reno through a bubble of artists and performers, political dreamers and hangers-on, and then to Italy, where the Autonomist movement is raging. The psychological, sexual, and artistic revolution with which New York had been flirting is suddenly and frighteningly actualized, and rebellion is no longer a thing to be performed. Kushner will be joined in conversation by Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End and The Unnamed.

Thursday, April 25th
Jessica Soffer in conversation with Colum McCann
“Jessica Soffer’s gorgeous and word-wise novel shows us how a single sentence can contain wonders, and a kitchen can contain epics” (Rivka Galchen). Soffer will read from and discuss her remarkable debut with Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin.

Tuesday, April 30th

Matthew Specktor in conversation with Victor LaValle

Matthew Specktor’s American Dream Machine is the story of an iconic striver, a classic self-made man in the vein of Jay Gatsby or Augie March. It’s the story of a talent agent and his troubled sons, two generations of Hollywood royalty, and its sweeping narrative concerns parents and children, the movie business, and the sundry changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life. Specktor will be joined in conversation by Victor LaValle, author, most recently, of The Devil in Silver.
Storytime

Baby Storytime (Ages 0 to 2): Friday at 4pm
Kid’s Storytime (Ages 3 to 8): Saturday at 11:30am
Spanish Storytime (Ages 0 to 4): Thursday at 4.30pm

Young book lovers are invited to listen to stories from our favorite picture books.

On Fridays, McNally Jackson’s Baby Storytellers, Sandeep Bhuller and Sarah Gerard, read picture books and sing songs with babies and kids up to age 2 and their grown-ups. Email Sarah at gerard@mcnallyjackson.com about Baby Storytime.

On Saturdays, author and resident storyteller Yvonne Brooks creates themed storytimes followed by guided crafts and activities for kids ages 3 to 8. Email Yvonne at yvonne@mcnallyjackson.com about Kids’ Storytime.

On Thursdays, Spanish language storyteller Edda Martinez reads picture books and sings songs with babies and kids up to age 4 and their grown-ups. Email Cristin at cristin@mcnallyjackson.com about Spanish Storytime.

PUPPET SHOW: Each month, McNally Jackson pairs a live puppet show with a classic picture book and singalong hour. Afterwards, kids and their parents are welcome to participate in a singalong and meet the puppet performers. Puppet shows are free and held in the history section every first Wednesday at 4:30 pm. On Wednesday, May 1st, the puppet show will be original production of Strega Nona, by Tomie dePaola.
Upcoming Discussions and Book Clubs

INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE: Led by Sarah McNally, this discussion group meets downstairs in the history section the first Monday of every month, at 7pm. On Monday, May 6th, the group will discuss Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat.

ESSAYS: Co-led by Sarah Gerard and Rachel Hurn, our Essays Book Group meets in the travel section the first Wednesday of every month, at 7pm. On Wednesday, May 1st, the book club will be discussing Truman Capote’s Music For Chameleons.

POETRY: Led by Brigid Brine, the Poetry Book Group meets upstairs in the travel section. From this month, the book club will no longer meet the third Wednesday but the second Thursday of every month, at 7pm. This evening, Thursday, April 11th, the book club will be discussing Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal, translated by Richard Howard. Poems to be discussed will be “Le Balcon,” “Les petites vieilles,” “L’invitation au voyage,” “Au lecteur,” “Paysage,” “À une passante,” “La Voix,” and “Le vin de l’assassin.” Book club member, Frank Guan, will discuss translation and some of his own translations of Baudelaire’s poems.

SPANISH BOOKCLUB: Led by Javier Molea, this discussion group meets once a month at 7pm downstairs. On Friday, May 3rd, the book club will be discussing Manana en la batalla piensa en mi, de Javier Marias. See the Events page for more details.

SMALL BUSINESS BOOKCLUB: Led by Holly Howard, our Small Business Reading Group meets in the travel section the second Tuesday of every month, at 7pm. On Tuesday, May 7th, the book club will be discussing Crush It: Why Now Is the Time To Cash In on Your Passion, by Gary Vaynerchuk.

DRAMA BOOKCLUB: Led by Matt Pieknik, our Drama Book Group meets in the travel section the second Monday of every month, at 7pm. On Monday, May 13th, the book club will be discussing Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.

PHILOSOPHY BOOKCLUB: Led by Kevin Cassem and Matthew Wagstaffe, the Philosophy Book Club meets in the travel section the first Tuesday of every month, at 7pm. On Tuesday, May 7th, the book club will be discussing Revolution: A Reader, compiled and annotated by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler. Read the essays between p. 345 and p. 486. Come, and make your reading performative.

Every Saturday at 1pm
SPANISH LANGUAGE DISCUSSION GROUP
Practice your Spanish with Javier Molea. Javier owned a bookstore in Montevido, Uruguay, where people gathered on Saturdays to discuss literature. He has brought that tradition to our store. No preparatory reading is required: Borges, Cortázar, Fuentes and all of the greatest Latin American writers are discussed. Email Javier at javier@mcnallyjackson.com about the Spanish Language Discussion Group. You can also now find out about Spanish events on our McNally Jackson en Español Facebook page.

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Art:Do Something with Yourself! “HOMEGIRLS”-Artist /Graffitti artist Abby Andrews debuts -Bobs-Gallery-Eldridge Street -Graffitti-

Style-List:Do Something with yourself-Andre Leon Tally@BookMarc-West Village

Photo-Retro -Late 90′s urban Style -photo Jayson Keeling -model:Josama

Art:Paris in the Twenties with Kiki de Montparnasse and friends-Assouline-

The most exciting and beautiful coffee table book on the inspiring Parisian artist model/muse Kiki de Montparnasse and her friends from Foujito to Cocteau to Picasso …everyone from the 20’30′and 40′s who is anyone then is here and the photos are just lovely …came across this at BOOks and BOOKs in of all places the mall at Lincoln Road in South Beach ..its a great little shop with space to sit , browse and or have a cafe out front to watch the crowd walk by on the prominade very Spain in the afternoons (well it is a resort town ..sort of )

Miami Mi Ami

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"Multiplicity” Multiplicity is all about the power of material and the artist ability to transform any given material from something of humble worth to the priceless and invaluable or to the very pricey .Its about the alchemy of art .

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CU1 Gallery -117Ne1avenue,CU1,downtown miami -Christopher Morlinghaus‘s “Places Where I Did Time”(april 4th -april 18th12-5pm mon-fri )-explores the use of space and its meaning in architecture and landscapes.
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very interesting place SoBe,Miami .It is at once tacky and sophisticated …it is one of the U.S.’s most modern of cities …it has this fusion of old world Europe and small town Americana that is comforting and its a none stop party town it all depends on what you want which makes it very New York in a way .The Flora is positively exotic ….the women and men are attractive but in a very self -conscious way that makes them uninteresting to me personally i am not the designer handbag type so its all lost on me …everyone looks as if they are on a reality tv show or in a
Novella.
If you concentrate on the history of Florida..great Seminole indian books at the SouthBeach Library or at Books and Books …find a good place on the beach a way from the crowd and read a book .Try Amor Towles “Rules of Civility” short and almost Capote-esque .Do the Bass museum one afternoon or take a tour of the Everglades which can be done for under 50$ or if you are really feeling adventurous try wind-boarding (all the rage here now)
there is tons to do and not to do here.
My breakfast is spent at Charlottes Bakery where i have a strong Cafe espresso with a croissant so filled with cream custard that i can hear myself sighing at the end of the bite and if i am really hungry i have an Arepa(corn tortilla baked and then stuffed with scrambled eggs and tomato or with Mozzarella

there is music everywhere..when i got here <strong>Ajari +iii</strong>-(the Toronto started Pop-House collective)performing at the Electronic Music festival

an event that brings in about 73 million dollars for South Miami Beach every year. You can walk for hours without tiring of looking at all the great Art deco-architecture.Hows the crowd think? of it as a more controlled Venice Beach ..a bit more self-aware..more St Sebastian american style than laid back California If you are into Label’s and flossing then Miami is for you …but for those who aren’t you can avoid the show by just finding quiet places and relaxing.
How did i get here? Greyhound !yes i did i like the bus and it took 18 hours but it gave me a chance to slow it down and also to see how northeast america looks from Richmond to Atlanta(the bridges ,very modern are quite majestic..also i hate flying so bussing it is the logical solution …if Greyhound went to Paris or Jamaica ..i would never get into a plane ).Pack your own food however…the food choices are slim and not for the picky appetite.
what hotel did i sleep in none i camped out on the beach and i slept great … its been 70degrees +consistantly
my point you don’t need money or lots of it to realize a dream or have a vacation you just need balls and a dream …do you
-OI

Art:Uta Barth

Art:Carrie Mae Weems-the pathos and the elegance of Black American womanhood-in photo form

I am going to let the sisters of this months work speak for itself …ladies and gentlemen ms. carrie mae weems
i will say this one thing Ms.Weems focus on that hyper-consciousness …that duality that W.E.B Dubois wrote of that is inherent not just in the black american psyche through slavery and mental subjugation but now more than ever thanks to our unrealistic doctrines, ideologyand mythology(Hollywood primarily) defines the American sensibility.
In honor of her new book Carrie Mae Weems:three decades of photography enjoy these fragments of this amazing artists incredible oeuvre

Art:Museum of Arts and Design:Mindfullness and Meditation of Our Things-March 12th -June 2nd-After the Museum:The Homefront 2013

Music:2013-the sound of the Teens-artist baron -honeychild coleman-alison clancy -ltron-and more

ART:King Basquiat

when i met Basquiat i was completely in love with his myth as i got to know him from a distance what i saw was a wounded animal(because thats what we all are..animal).
he had a great smile a countenance that exuded peace and you could see that he was in complete control of his faculties drawing and creating was for him like breathing.
life seemed a bit harder he was a junkie like some men and women are alcoholics ..to forget..to free himself.
His sense of style was just amazing …i had never been even remotely close to a Missoni sweater than on the rack at Bloomingdales ..Basquiat not only wore Missoni and Yojhi but he wore them as if they were rags …one could easily see him wiping paint off of his floor with a 1500 dollar knit and not wonder for a moment if it was all affectation.
I had never seen a collapsible bi-cycle jean-michel could be seen getting around Tribeca and Nolita on one daily canvas balanced under one arm ,long nappy locks pulled back rather girlishly with a joint between index fingers..
jmb@Gagosian till april 6th

Style-List:Fantasia…the return of Expression in dress

It does not have to cost anything to be creative in dress you can even craft it yourself its actually ideal that you do . the 20′s Poiret silhouette was seen everywhere from London @Tom Ford to Alexander Wang a
Learn to sew or encourage a friend who does by buying there craft from crocheting to knitting to the hand painted …..when times get tough the tough get creative
The Neo-hippy is very in now from russian Cossack dresses to Dashiki’sand u can make it yourself…whats the chance of seeing someone else in it if you create it yourself
express yourself its not about Prada or Gucci its about you and what looks good on you and what expresses your true power
i feel that a lot of fashion today is stuck in a post nineties conformity that is very manufactured how can we get pass that but by creating ourselves …we have to think outside the bag the box and the buck thats the only thing thats going to save capitalism is to accept its slowing down as part of its Maturity and from there re-inspire the people to find joy in living

Style-List:Iris Van Herpin’s-21st Century Couture

Photographs by Norman Rockwell for his now historic “the problem we all have to live with”story for the Sunday Evening Post(1964) on desegregation

Rubric:The American Seen-OURstory 2013

Our Style fed you like fields/our flesh built you like the hands of gods
our love anointed you inspite of your greed inspite of your vanity inspite of your negligence ..for we who sing of seas and endless sky.. infinity is ours
OI

Style-List :A Paris-Balmain’s Genie Olivier Rousteing-The innovation of our people is limitless-pre-Fall 2013 select piece

Balmain on Style.com
**********-April 19th -June29th,2013 -Lois Mailou Jones @ExhibitionHall,The Schomburg Center**********************
*********************************ROLL JORDAN ROLL:The World The Slaves Made (1974)-Eugene D .Genovese ************************************************
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Ourstory:Africans in India:from Slaves to Generals and Rulers-Latimer edison Gallery @Schomburg Cultural Center ..ends july6th /-W.E.B Dubois-words i have to try hard to live by

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Over the centuries, East Africans have greatly distinguished themselves in India as generals, commanders, admirals, architects, prime ministers, and rulers. They have written a story unparalleled in the rest of the world: that of enslaved Africans attaining the pinnacle of military and political authority.

Known as Habshis (Abyssinians) and Sidis, they have left an impressive historical and architectural legacy that attest to their determination, skills, and intellectual, cultural, military and political savvy.

This exhibition, the first of its kind, retraces—in over 100 photographic reproductions of paintings and contemporary photographs—the lives and achievements of a few of the many talented and prominent Sidis of yesterday.

Curated by Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf and Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins.

For more information on Africans in India, visit the online exhibition The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World.

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“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, Three African-American Classics: up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Art:Black Our-story Month-Visualizing Emancipation-Oct11th-March16th,2013-Schomburg Center-Harlem.USA-Mary Lou Williams concert

In honor of the 150th anniversary of Our emancipation proclamation the New york public library ‘s Schomburg Center for Research in Afro-American studies presents a show of some truly amazing photo’s and ephemera ranging from our antebellum Civil war era to post civil war era …it is really exciting my favorite in the show are the images taken by Prentice H Polke but really there is so much to see.Enjoy
Here is a little something extra for Black Our-story Month

*****************Mary Lou Williams:a celebration Feb20th-www.ArtsatthePark
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In celebration of Black History month, Arts at The Park’s artist-in-residence Deanna Witkowski (“consistently thrilling” playing and “boundless imagination” (All Music Guide) will lead a trio with Linda Oh on bass, and a 12-voice choir of professional jazz vocalists in a performance of works by Mary Lou Williams, who broke through her era’s significant barriers to women jazz musicians.

The featured work on the program is Williams’ 1969 Music for Peace, (commonly known as Mass for Peace), a monumental work of sacred jazz informed by the Civil Rights movement and the liturgical reforms of the Roman Catholic Church’s Vatican II Council, as well as Williams’ own deep personal faith. Her remarkably original settings of traditional liturgical texts embraced a compendium of jazz styles, from blues to bossa nova. Music for Peace, received with great acclaim, was later choreographed and performed by the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater as “Mary Lou’s Mass.”

Williams often stated that she wanted to be a force for emotional healing through her music. In the 1960s, Williams, who was always one step ahead of innovations in jazz, began focusing on music composition for the Catholic church. Her service music inspired Duke Ellington to write his own Sacred Concerts, yet differed from Ellington’s work in that her pieces were meant for use in actual services, rather than solely in concert settings. Williams’ transition to composing for the church marked a seven-year period that corresponded with liturgical changes within the Catholic church. From 1963 until 1970 she composed a number of hymns and three masses that garnered attention within the American Catholic church as well as from the Vatican. In 1975, jazz was played for the first time in New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, when Williams performed her work Mary Lou’s Mass with her trio and a 60-voice youth choir.

Williams wrote and arranged for such bandleaders as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. She was considered a major force in the in the birth of bebop and was a friend, teacher and mentor to the pioneering pianists, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk as well as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Errol Garner and a list of other luminaries of the revolutionary post-Renaissance Harlem. She was one of the first female musicians who opened up the notoriously male-dominated jazz scene to instrumentalists of the opposite gender. Originating from boogie-woogie and blues, her harmonic style was constantly evolving, even leading to a performance in 1977 with the avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor.

After a European tour in the early 1950s, Williams was deeply conflicted about appearing in clubs and secular venues. For several years, in lieu of performing, she poured her efforts working directly with jazz musicians recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. She also created a charitable organization and opened thrift stores in Harlem, directing the proceeds, along with ten percent of her own earnings, to musicians in need. So in the spirit of Mary Lou Williams, Arts at the Park will give ten percent of this concert’s proceeds to The Jazz Foundation of America (JFA), a non-profit organization based in Manhattan that works to bridge the gap between social and medical resources to jazz musicians in need.

_Rashid Johnson’s “Two Rugs”

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Here is Something a bit different

Art in Odd Places 2013
presents

RORY GOLDEN’S
VALENTINE’S DAY REENACTMENTS
FEBRUARY 12, 13, & 14
10am–12noon & 4–6pm
MADISON SQUARE PARK

ARTIST RORY GOLDEN USES iPHONE, SMALL DOLLS TO CREATE MINI MOVIES ABOUT YOUR ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

Golden’s roving street performances will inspire the public to tell their love stories for film fare to be distributed by email, text message and social media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New York City — Art in Odd Places presents Brooklyn-based artist Rory Golden’s Valentine’s Day Reenactments. Golden’s ongoing No Reenactments Without Prior Permission is a multi-media project engaging the public that debuted in the Art in Odd Places 2012: Model program last October. Golden’s Valentine’s Day public premiere is Tuesday, February 12, 10am–12noon & 4pm–6pm, in and around Madison Square Park in New York City. On February 13 and 14, during the same morning and afternoon shifts in and around the park, Rory will engage the public with roving performances intended to inspire passersby to share their love stories with him. From this romantic fare, he will then (prior permission granted) use his iPhone and tiny, vintage dolls to produce funny, mini-movies, each under one minute, to be distributed via email, text message, and social media for Valentine’s Day.

Golden will create video shorts In Madison Square Park with passersby or one can contact the No Reenactments Facebook Page. People will share stories of romantic failures and triumphs. The artist then creates iPhone videos using tiny dolls as puppets. Bad breakups, romantical first meetings – or delicious starry-eyed interludes – are re-imagined as high drama, soap opera-esque mini-vignettes about love perfect for Valentine’s Day.

“After years of focusing on race, violence and sexuality in American Society, I have turned to love.”
Artist Rory Golden
Rory Golden has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts,the Blue Mountain Center for major projects “Your One Black Friend” and “See Related Story: The Murder of J.R. Warren.” Recent awards include a research grant from Duke University Libraries Special Collections, a Puffin Foundation Grant, residencies at Blue Sky Project and the Manhattan Graphics Center, all towards completing “You Think I Can Eat All This Chicken Here?” In 2012 he had a solo exhibition at Art for Change in NYC and was the Phillip C. Curtis Artist in Residence at Albion College (MI). http://www.rorygolden.net / Rory Golden on Youtube

For instructions on submitting your love stories to be made into mini movies by the artist: Go to No Reenactments Facebook Page and send a message.
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. Active in New York City since 2005, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. Using NYC’s streets as a laboratory, this project continues AiOP’s work to locate cracks in public space policies, and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space. AiOP is a project of GOH Productions. http://www.gohproductions.com
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jen Smith • (813) 468-7719 • amensuburbia@gmail.com
Ed Woodham • (347) 350-4242 • artinoddplaces@gmail.com
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“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
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illustration:Sir Orin Perry

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Mine: Take What’s Yours
From its connotations of wealth and power to its iconic symbolism of transcendence, Gold has captivated artists and entrepreneurs alike. With its glistening allure and chemically inert properties, this unique mineral represents worldwide the ideal state of permanence and prosperity defying the transience of everyday life. As with the golden mean and the gold standard, the color and metal are tied to timeless forms and paradigms. This exhibition investigates the widespread obsession with gold – visually, economically and spiritually – in its manifold capacities. The artists featured in “Mine: Take What’s Yours” use both color and medium to explore the alluring and illusory quality of this mesmerizing material.

Opening Reception: Jan 15, 6:30-8:30pm
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MEET OUR ARTISTS
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Follow the links to discover more here.
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ATLAS, KAHRS, MUCHA, WHITEREAD

Luhring Augustine, Bushwick
25 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237
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Luhring Augustine, Chelsea
531 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
March 22 – April 27, 2013

Johannes Kahrs, Untitled (four men with table), 2008; Oil on canvas (diptych)
77.76 x 93.5 inches (197.5 x 237.5 cm); 77.76 x 84.84 inches (197.5 x 215.5 cm)

Luhring Augustine is pleased to present a group exhibition in both its Chelsea and Bushwick locations featuring Charles Atlas, Johannes Kahrs, Reinhard Mucha, and Rachel Whiteread. Works by each artist will be on view in both venues. The works included in the exhibition engage a concern shared by the four artists in examining the nature of memory and the shaping of collective and individual histories.

Charles Atlas (St. Louis, Missouri, 1958) has been a pioneering figure in film and video for over four decades. He has consistently fostered collaborative relationships, working with such artists as Leigh Bowery, Marina Abramović, Yvonne Rainer, Antony and the Johnsons, and Merce Cunningham, for whom he served as in-house videographer from the early 1970s through 1983. Through his documentary work, video portraits, “media dance” pieces, and live multimedia performances he has chronicled the development of the dance and performance of his time while forging new territory in a far-reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques.

Johannes Kahrs (Bremen, Germany, 1965) creates evocative and haunting paintings and drawings which he begins by referencing images taken from the news, the entertainment industry, and advertising. Altering tones and gradations and blurring the contours of his subjects, he reinterprets the original image to create a fictional narrative quite separate from his sources, and to investigate the manner in which images are circulated and consumed.

Reinhard Mucha (Düsseldorf, Germany, 1950) synthesizes found materials and constructed vitrines made with materials such as wood, felt, and glass to examine “the museum as a site, a place where attention is focused, the art object rarefied, value conferred and memory collected,” as Roberta Smith has written. Throughout his artistic production of the past four decades run themes of collective identity, nationalism, the psychology of architecture and power, and the merging of industrial, historical, and political landscapes.

Rachel Whiteread (London, England, 1963) creates elegant and poetic sculptures which explore architecture, space, absence, and memory. Often inspired by the physicality of the human body, her works are poignant for their exploration of intimate domestic spaces and household objects. Whiteread typically uses industrial materials such as plaster, resin, and rubber to cast the negative space surrounding or within an object. The resulting sculptures retain the texture and shape of the original objects while assuming an enigmatic, specter-like nature.

For further information, please contact Donald Johnson-Montenegro at 212.206.9100 or via email at donald@luhringaugustine.com.

Please note that there will be no formal opening reception for either portion of this exhibition.

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