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Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition
Curated by: Adrienne L. Childs Exhibition schedule: Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, February 29, –January 3, Exhibition catalogue: Adrienne L. Childs, with contributions by Valerie Cassel Oliver and Renee Maurer, and the foreword by Dorothy Kosinski, exh. cat., Washington, DC: Phillips Collection in association with Rizzoli Electa, pp.; color illus.; 13 b/w illus. Hardcover: $ (ISBN: ) Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition is a must-see exhibition for scholars of American art. The installation is sensitive, dynamic, and revelatory, and the catalogue is a much-needed contribution to scholarship, a primer on modern and contemporary African American artists’ fraught relations with European modernism. Thankfully, it has been extended through the fall of For those who cannot travel to see the exhibition in person, I hope this review and images will
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The National Portrait Gallery has selected the artists whose work will be included in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition The juried exhibition includes 49 works that will be on view from Oct. 23 through Aug. 22, Of these works, submitted by people from across the nation, seven were selected for the shortlist. Each of these seven will win cash awards, and the first prize will include an award of $25, and a commission from the museum to create a portrait of a living individual for the museum’s permanent collection. The prizes will be announced in a private event Oct.
“The second Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition represents a significant milestone for the National Portrait Gallery,” said Martin Sullivan, director of the museum. “We opened the entries to all visual arts media and received a wonderful response.”
The competition received 3, entries in a variety of visual arts media, from digital animation and video to large-scale drawings, prints and photographs and a pletho
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How Does Someone Become an Art Collector? Moe Harkless, Joy Simmons, and Others Share Their Origin Stories
What makes someone an art collector? Plenty of people buy a drawing or two to hang on their vägg, but being a collector requires curiosity, commitment, and, yes, investment. Over the years, CULTURED has interviewed a variety of bona fide collectors and their origin stories are all different. Some individuals grew up around art (one even went to Art Basel as a toddler). Others were drawn to the practice after befriending artists or other collectors. As it turns out, you don’t have to be part of an art-world dynasty to build a collection—you can be a dentist or a radiologist, too. Below, we scoured CULTURED’s archives to bring you the most inspirational ursprung stories of 12 collectors.
Moe Harkless
“It started with the people around me pushing me to finally do it. I've always been into art and talked about it with my friends. One