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PIN–UP | CARRIE MAE WEEMS VS THE MUSEUM
The Artist’s Museums Series Confronts the Institution Itself by Adam Pendleton Based in Syracuse, New York, Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) is an artist who investigates history, identity, and power, finding connections between personal experience and the larger structures and institutions that shape our lives.
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TOXIC ACCUSATIONS A NEW ENLIGHTENMENT CLASS CLOWN IMITATION INTERIORS ACADEMY ANGUISH VOCAL POLITICS SNAPSHOT CITY BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Issue No. 248 The View from Here A qualified defense of other people Beating Putin’s Propaganda Alex Goldfarb was falsely accused by Russian state media of poisoning his friend Alexander Litvinenko.
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New Kemper Museum Show Blurs Boundaries - In Multiple Ways
Artist Adam Pendleton’s preferred hues may be black and white, but the message of his artwork, now on display at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (1 Brookings Drive, 314-935-4523, kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu), is anything but. To Divide By, which opened late last month, showcases the past five years of Pendleton’s artistic practice.
Adam Pendleton: To Divide By
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis presentsAdam Pendleton: To Divide By, a major solo exhibition that spans the past five years of the renowned artist’s work, with a marked emphasis on abstract composition. Encompassing all of the Museum’s special exhibition galleries, To Divide By includes new paintings, drawings, and ceramics, as well as two recent film portraits.
Saving Nina Simone’s Childhood Home in North Carolina
In 1933, Eunice Kathleen Waymon was born in the small town of Tryon, North Carolina. Less than two decades later, she’d play piano at Midtown Bar & Grill in Atlantic City, New Jersey, poised to launch her career under the stage name Nina Simone. Today, the legacy of the genre-blending pianist, singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist—called the High Priestess of Soul after her 1967 album—is still going strong.
Venus Williams and Adam Pendleton to Co-Host Auction at Pace, Benefitting Nina Simone’s Childhood Home
Artist Adam Pendleton and tennis champion and art collector Venus Williams will curate a charity auction as part of a benefit gala hosted by Pace Gallery this spring. Taking place at the gallery’s flagship New York space on May 20, the auction, co-organized with Sotheby’s, will support a preservation project for the childhood home of Nina Simone.
David Adjaye Adam Pendleton
Overview A dialogue of materials and process, space and language, architecture and art This new volume, designed in collaboration with American artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) and Ghanaian British artist and architect David Adjaye (born 1966), explores the blurred boundary between art and architecture. Featuring new silkscreen canvases by Pendleton and marble sculptures by Adjaye, this publication brings the artists and their works into conversation.
Adam Pendleton on Amiri Baraka (1934–2014)
passages Amiri Baraka at SUNY Buffalo, New York, on March 10, 1988. (Photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate) IN DEATH, Amiri Baraka is read through one of the two lenses under which Black American Culture is legible: realism and expressionism. Everything must figure, one way or another. This is significant, because it means that there is no commonly understood way of taking Baraka seriously without also taking him literally, more or less. He is denied the frame of abstraction and of the concept.
Opinion | Op-Art: See the Sin
A sketch from an artist known for his critical articulations of blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde. June 21, 2020, 7:27 p.m. ET Mass demonstration. Indifference. Slavery. Indifference. Jim Crow. Indifference. My people. Raised fist. Bended knee. Indifference. Just past. Just pain. Just violence. Just loss. Indifference. Loss of breath. Indifference. Death. Indifference. Segregation. Indifference. Your loss. My hope. My indifference. Genocide. Indifference. Mass incarceration. Indifference. Nonviolence. Violence.
Artist Adam Pendleton on Protests Across America: ‘I Am Not Safe, and This Country Is Not Kind’
Skip to main content June 4, 2020 9:00am Adam Pendleton, Completed sketch for SEE THE SIN, 2020. Courtesy the artist I woke up this morning and realized I live in a country where police mow down civilians with SUVs and storm protesters with batons, rubber bullets, tears gas, and live rounds. I realized you can lose your life for standing up for life. I realized that I am not safe, and this country is not kind.
Triple Canopy – A Benefit for Triple Canopy, Honoring Joan Jonas
A performance By Okkyung Lee & Ikue Mori Below is a recording of Okkyung Lee & Ikue Mori, scoring an excerpt from Joan Jonas’s Drawing Dante, on the occasion of Triple Canopy’s 2019 benefit honoring Jonas. Remarks By Adam Pendleton Adam Pendelton introduces Joan Jonas at Triple Canopy’s 2019 benefit, which honored Jonas. “To invoke and to abstract, to abstract to invoke,” Pendleton observes.
by Adam Pendleton
Adam Pendleton is currently the subject of the traveling museum exhibition Becoming Imperceptible, which originated at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans and was recently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. In January 2017 the show will move to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. His work is represented in numerous museum and private collections worldwide, including the Solomon R.
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