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Friday, October 9, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Posing Beauty in African American Culture - Opening Reception October 8th
The publication and exhibition “POSING BEAUTY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE” explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, video fashion and advertising.
Author and curator DEBORAH WILLIS will be present at the reception on Thursday, October 8th, from 6-8 p.m.
Event Date and Time:
September 1, 2009 – October 18, 2009
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Location:
Gulf + Western, Tisch Windows, and 8th Floor Galleries
721 Broadway at Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
From the TSOA Website:
“The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced its first fall show will be Posing Beauty, an exhibition of approximately 80 works—including black and white, color, and digitized photographs; video installations; and web-based projects—drawn from public and private collections. The exhibition explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts in a diverse range of media.
Throughout the history of Western art and image-making, beauty has been idealized and challenged, and the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture, according to the exhibition’s curator, Deborah Willis, University Professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging. “This exhibit questions the relationship between beauty and art by examining the representation of beauty and different attitudes about class, gender, and aesthetics,” said Willis.
The exhibition was inspired by the book of the same name, and is written by Willis and published by W.W. Norton & Company (October 2009).
The exhibition will travel to other venues, including Williams College Museum of Art, Newark Museum, and USC’s Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles.
Posing Beauty is divided into three thematic sections. The first theme, Constructing a Pose, considers the interplay between the historical and the contemporary, between self-representation and imposed representation, and the relationship between subject and photographer. The second theme, Body and Image, questions the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been constructed and framed through the body. The last section, Modeling Beauty and Beauty Contests, invites a deeper reading of beauty, its impact on mass culture and individuals and how the display of beauty affects the ways in which we see and interpret the world and ourselves.
Artists in the exhibition include: Eve Arnold, Anthony Barboza, Sheila Pree Bright, Renee Cox, Bruce Davidson, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Alex Harsley, Jessica Ingram, Lauren Kelley, Russell Lee, Builder Levy, Elaine Mayes, Jeffrey Scales, Jamel Shabazz, Stephen Shames, Mickaline Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Garry Winogrand and Ernest Withers, among others.
The exhibition will be on view in the Gulf + Western Gallery and in the 8th floor gallery of the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography & Imaging, located at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. This exhibition is open to the public and admission is free. Photo ID is required when entering the building. For further information, on the exhibition or any of its accompanying events, visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu or call 212.998.1930.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. The touring exhibition is sponsored by J.P. Morgan Chase and organized by Curatorial Assistance. Additional support has been provided by grants from the Tisch School of the Arts Office of the Dean and Visual Arts Initiative.
Author and curator DEBORAH WILLIS will be present at the reception on Thursday, October 8th, from 6-8 p.m.
Event Date and Time:
September 1, 2009 – October 18, 2009
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Location:
Gulf + Western, Tisch Windows, and 8th Floor Galleries
721 Broadway at Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
From the TSOA Website:
“The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced its first fall show will be Posing Beauty, an exhibition of approximately 80 works—including black and white, color, and digitized photographs; video installations; and web-based projects—drawn from public and private collections. The exhibition explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts in a diverse range of media.
Throughout the history of Western art and image-making, beauty has been idealized and challenged, and the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture, according to the exhibition’s curator, Deborah Willis, University Professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging. “This exhibit questions the relationship between beauty and art by examining the representation of beauty and different attitudes about class, gender, and aesthetics,” said Willis.
The exhibition was inspired by the book of the same name, and is written by Willis and published by W.W. Norton & Company (October 2009).
The exhibition will travel to other venues, including Williams College Museum of Art, Newark Museum, and USC’s Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles.
Posing Beauty is divided into three thematic sections. The first theme, Constructing a Pose, considers the interplay between the historical and the contemporary, between self-representation and imposed representation, and the relationship between subject and photographer. The second theme, Body and Image, questions the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been constructed and framed through the body. The last section, Modeling Beauty and Beauty Contests, invites a deeper reading of beauty, its impact on mass culture and individuals and how the display of beauty affects the ways in which we see and interpret the world and ourselves.
Artists in the exhibition include: Eve Arnold, Anthony Barboza, Sheila Pree Bright, Renee Cox, Bruce Davidson, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Alex Harsley, Jessica Ingram, Lauren Kelley, Russell Lee, Builder Levy, Elaine Mayes, Jeffrey Scales, Jamel Shabazz, Stephen Shames, Mickaline Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams, Garry Winogrand and Ernest Withers, among others.
The exhibition will be on view in the Gulf + Western Gallery and in the 8th floor gallery of the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography & Imaging, located at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. This exhibition is open to the public and admission is free. Photo ID is required when entering the building. For further information, on the exhibition or any of its accompanying events, visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu or call 212.998.1930.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. The touring exhibition is sponsored by J.P. Morgan Chase and organized by Curatorial Assistance. Additional support has been provided by grants from the Tisch School of the Arts Office of the Dean and Visual Arts Initiative.
Monday, October 5, 2009
They Won't Budge: Africans in Europe @ MOCADA
CURATED BY AWAM AMKPA, ANNALISA BUTTICCI + MADALA HILAIRE - NYU AFRICANA STUDIES
DEB WILLIS - CREATIVE CONSULTANT
Their stories are numerous, some similar and others flavored by particular struggles in specific sites of discontent. Overall, their attitudes are of stubborn resilience, hope, and survival in environments desperate for their labor but resentful of their presence. Unlike their predecessors who went to European countries for further education, these migrants take unusual risks to go work in the factories and farms of Europe and have been under the radar of immigration studies. The photographs and videos in They Won't Budge depict African immigrants making their uncertain sojourn on makeshift and intermittently-powered fishing boats from West Africa, through the rigors of European immigration control, and into the interstices of society in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Czech and Britain.
DEB WILLIS - CREATIVE CONSULTANT
Their stories are numerous, some similar and others flavored by particular struggles in specific sites of discontent. Overall, their attitudes are of stubborn resilience, hope, and survival in environments desperate for their labor but resentful of their presence. Unlike their predecessors who went to European countries for further education, these migrants take unusual risks to go work in the factories and farms of Europe and have been under the radar of immigration studies. The photographs and videos in They Won't Budge depict African immigrants making their uncertain sojourn on makeshift and intermittently-powered fishing boats from West Africa, through the rigors of European immigration control, and into the interstices of society in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Czech and Britain.
CURATORIAL DISCUSSION AND BOOK SIGNING
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
6:30pm - 8:30pm Free to the public
The curatorial team for They Won't Budge will discuss the vision behind the exhibition and its components within a larger migration project. Moderated by photographer, art historian and curatorial consultant for the project, Dr. Deb Willis, audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions about the works on view, the curatorial vision and African immigrant populations currently living in Europe. Viewers can then view the exhibition at their leisure and purchase signed copies of Dr. Willis' new book Posing Beauty in African and African American Culture.
DJ PERFORMANCE & MUSIC PANEL
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
7:00pm - 9:30pm Free to the public
MoCADA and Nomadic Wax will host an interactive DJ performance and panel on the influence of hip-hop in both African and European musical forms and how DJ's borrow from numerous music types to create new house and jungle beats. The panel, consisting of DJ Boo, DJ Laylo & DJ Madi, will be moderated by arts and culture journalist Siddhartha Mitter and will have a live feed on Afrobeatradio. Following the discussion audience members can enjoy listening to each DJ perform a 15-minute set.
MINI-CONFERENCE
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2009
10:00am - 6:00pm Free to the public
Spike Lee Screening Room - Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus (DeKalb & Flatbush Aves)
NYU Africana Studies & MoCADA will host an all day mini conference examining different elements of the migration of African populations into Europe.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
10:00am - 1:00pm - PANEL DISCUSSION:
NYU Africana Studies Director, Dr. Awam Amkpa will lead an academic and community panel discussion examining the historical and current migratory patterns of African populations into Europe.
1:30pm - 2:30pm - BOOK SIGNING
Following the panel, NYU professor, film and music critic Dr. Manthia Diawara will briefly discuss his book We Won't Budge. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.
3:00pm - 6:00pm - FILM SCREENING:
MoCADA will showcase two films describing diverging elements of contemporary social and political conditions in Africa.
Le Cri de la Mer (The Cry of the Sea), by director Aicha Thiam, is a documentary short focusing on Yaye Bayham, a Senegalese mother who lost her only son on a boat headed for the Canary Islands and now spends her days fighting against the economic exodus of Senegalese youth.
African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about the role of hip-hop during the 2007 presidential election in Dakar, Senegal. The film, produced by Nomadic Wax & Sol Productions, follows rappers, DJs, journalists, professors and people on the street at the time before, during, and after the controversial election.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
6:30pm - 8:30pm Free to the public
The curatorial team for They Won't Budge will discuss the vision behind the exhibition and its components within a larger migration project. Moderated by photographer, art historian and curatorial consultant for the project, Dr. Deb Willis, audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions about the works on view, the curatorial vision and African immigrant populations currently living in Europe. Viewers can then view the exhibition at their leisure and purchase signed copies of Dr. Willis' new book Posing Beauty in African and African American Culture.
DJ PERFORMANCE & MUSIC PANEL
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
7:00pm - 9:30pm Free to the public
MoCADA and Nomadic Wax will host an interactive DJ performance and panel on the influence of hip-hop in both African and European musical forms and how DJ's borrow from numerous music types to create new house and jungle beats. The panel, consisting of DJ Boo, DJ Laylo & DJ Madi, will be moderated by arts and culture journalist Siddhartha Mitter and will have a live feed on Afrobeatradio. Following the discussion audience members can enjoy listening to each DJ perform a 15-minute set.
MINI-CONFERENCE
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2009
10:00am - 6:00pm Free to the public
Spike Lee Screening Room - Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus (DeKalb & Flatbush Aves)
NYU Africana Studies & MoCADA will host an all day mini conference examining different elements of the migration of African populations into Europe.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
10:00am - 1:00pm - PANEL DISCUSSION:
NYU Africana Studies Director, Dr. Awam Amkpa will lead an academic and community panel discussion examining the historical and current migratory patterns of African populations into Europe.
1:30pm - 2:30pm - BOOK SIGNING
Following the panel, NYU professor, film and music critic Dr. Manthia Diawara will briefly discuss his book We Won't Budge. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.
3:00pm - 6:00pm - FILM SCREENING:
MoCADA will showcase two films describing diverging elements of contemporary social and political conditions in Africa.
Le Cri de la Mer (The Cry of the Sea), by director Aicha Thiam, is a documentary short focusing on Yaye Bayham, a Senegalese mother who lost her only son on a boat headed for the Canary Islands and now spends her days fighting against the economic exodus of Senegalese youth.
African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about the role of hip-hop during the 2007 presidential election in Dakar, Senegal. The film, produced by Nomadic Wax & Sol Productions, follows rappers, DJs, journalists, professors and people on the street at the time before, during, and after the controversial election.
FINDING AFRICA IN FT GREENE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Families can learn more about the presence of the modern-day African Diaspora through a treasure hunt exploration of MoCADA's community in Fort Greene. Each participating family will receive a list of locations to find and must receive a "token" from each. Once the tokens are all collected, the first ten families will receive a gift bag full of prizes!
Goodie Mob Reunion Tour
GUERILLA UNION PRESENTS
THE REUNION OF THE LEGENDARY GOODIE MOB
NATIONWIDE TOUR KICKS OFF OCTOBER 15 IN NEW ORLEANS;
ROLLS UP TO THE ‘CYPRESS HILL SMOKEOUT’ ON 10/23
GOODIE MOB TO OFFER SNEAK PEAK AT BET AWARDS TAPING 10/10
RENOWNED RAPPER SCARFACE TO APPEAR AS
VERY SPECIAL GUEST ON ALL DATES
Pomona, CA (October 5, 2009) -- Guerilla Union, Inc, producer of Rock The Bells, The Cypress Hill SmokeOut, and Paid Dues Festival, is proud to present the return of the legendary Goodie Mob. Goodie Mob will be touring for the first time in ten years, with all original members: Cee-Lo (from Gnarls Barkley), Big Gipp, Khujo, and T-Mo. The tour will kick off on October 15 in New Orleans and features Scarface as the “very special guest” on all dates. Goodie Mob will offer a sneak peak of what fans can expect from the reunion when they perform live at the BET Awards taping in Atlanta on October 10 (the show is scheduled to air on 10/27). Tour highlights include a stop at The Cypress Hill SmokeOut on October 23 at the San Manuel Amphitheatre and festival grounds in San Bernardino, CA, and the blowout NYC show on November 13 at the Hammerstein Ballroom on which Goodie Mob and Scarface will be joined by Tech N9ne and Slaughterhouse (Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joell Ortiz, Royce da 5’9).
Universally recognized as pioneering and critically acclaimed, Goodie Mob – along with fellow Dungeon Family group OutKast – introduced southern rap to mainstream America, helped put Atlanta on the map as a Mecca for hip-hop, and is credited with having invented the runaway term “dirty south.” The group was met with an overwhelming response when it recently hit fans in hometown Atlanta with a surprise show. “The reunion was inevitable,” said Cee-Lo. “The void in today’s music and marketplace ironically has become the very place prepared for us. There’s a need and a want for what we do and represent as The Mob. Consider the tour a mission… an order if you will. The last of a living breed, the Goodie Mob marches on.”
The tour’s “very special guest,” Scarface, is considered by many to be one of best rappers of all time. Scarface, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has received commercial and critical acclaim as both a solo artist, and as a member of the infamous Houston hip-hop group The Geto Boys.
Goodie Mob reunion tour dates are scheduled as follows:
October 15 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
October 17 Austin, TX Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre
October 19 Houston, TX House of Blues
October 20 Dallas, TX House of Blues
October 23 San Bernardino, CA The Cypress Hill SmokeOut
October 24 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
October 28 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
October 29 Denver, CO The Gothic Theatre
November 13 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
November 14 Washington, DC The Scene
November 15 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place
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