• Friday Facts On Friday, we’re all about the facts! What happened? When? . On January 14th, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum @guggenheim and Foundation announced the Appointment of Curator, Naomi Beckwith as its incoming Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator! Beckwith will be the first Black curator to hold her new position at the museum. In 2019, the Guggenheim hired Ashley James as associate curator of contemporary art, making her the first full-time Black curator in the museum’s history. . An integral part of the Guggenheim’s senior leadership, Beckwith will provide an overarching intellectual vision for museum programming to be shared with diverse audiences, including local, international, and digital constituents, and in alignment with the museum’s objectives of increased accessibility and inclusion. . She will oversee the creation and implementation of the exhibition program in New York and will articulate long-range collection strategies for the growth of all Guggenheim museums. She will advise on all global arts initiatives, will actively partner with the curatorial teams at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and will collaborate on the development of collection and programmatic strategies for the future museum in Abu Dhabi. . “With her highly regarded accomplishments, scholarship that contributes to building a revised canon of art history, and creative projects that connect artists of today with growing audiences, Naomi Beckwith will be a catalytic leader for our outstanding curatorial team” - Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Text via press release at Guggenheim.org and ArtNews.com Img credit) Daniel Shea for COS
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    Friday Facts On Friday, we’re all about the facts! What happened? When? . On January 14th, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum @guggenheim and Foundation announced the Appointment of Curator, Naomi Beckwith as its incoming Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator! Beckwith will be the first Black curator to hold her new position at the museum. In 2019, the Guggenheim hired Ashley James as associate curator of contemporary art, making her the first full-time Black curator in the museum’s history. . An integral part of the Guggenheim’s senior leadership, Beckwith will provide an overarching intellectual vision for museum programming to be shared with diverse audiences, including local, international, and digital constituents, and in alignment with the museum’s objectives of increased accessibility and inclusion. . She will oversee the creation and implementation of the exhibition program in New York and will articulate long-range collection strategies for the growth of all Guggenheim museums. She will advise on all global arts initiatives, will actively partner with the curatorial teams at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and will collaborate on the development of collection and programmatic strategies for the future museum in Abu Dhabi. . “With her highly regarded accomplishments, scholarship that contributes to building a revised canon of art history, and creative projects that connect artists of today with growing audiences, Naomi Beckwith will be a catalytic leader for our outstanding curatorial team” - Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Text via press release at Guggenheim.org and ArtNews.com Img credit) Daniel Shea for COS
  • Too Good to Miss Thursday On Thursday’s we repost posts that have caught our attention! . We’re thrilled to hear about this new initiative for BIPOC curators!! Reposted @mariangoodmangallery Marian Goodman Gallery will honor the late Okwui Enwezor with the launch of a new initiative to create educational and research opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) curators. The initiative is conceived by artist Steve McQueen, in partnership with Independent Curators International (@Curatorsintl / ICI) and will support ICI’s professional development programs and research fellowships.⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ As part of the first phase of the initiative, ICI will develop one Curatorial Intensive in Africa and two Curatorial Research Fellowships every year for the next three years. The programs will empower and sustain a more diverse generation of curators, and forge collaborative networks among curators, artists, and art spaces internationally. ⠀ To learn more about the initiative and to read the full caption please visit the link in @mariangoodmangallery ‘ s profile.⠀ ⠀ Images: Portrait of Okwui Enwezor, photographed by Jeff Weiss; Participants of the 2019 Curatorial Intensive in Cape Town, South Africa⠀ ⠀ #Curatorsintl #ICIIntensives #arthistory #curatorialstudies #professionalpractice #curator #okwuienwezor #stevemcqueen
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    Too Good to Miss Thursday On Thursday’s we repost posts that have caught our attention! . We’re thrilled to hear about this new initiative for BIPOC curators!! Reposted @mariangoodmangallery Marian Goodman Gallery will honor the late Okwui Enwezor with the launch of a new initiative to create educational and research opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) curators. The initiative is conceived by artist Steve McQueen, in partnership with Independent Curators International (@Curatorsintl / ICI) and will support ICI’s professional development programs and research fellowships.⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀ As part of the first phase of the initiative, ICI will develop one Curatorial Intensive in Africa and two Curatorial Research Fellowships every year for the next three years. The programs will empower and sustain a more diverse generation of curators, and forge collaborative networks among curators, artists, and art spaces internationally. ⠀ To learn more about the initiative and to read the full caption please visit the link in @mariangoodmangallery ‘ s profile.⠀ ⠀ Images: Portrait of Okwui Enwezor, photographed by Jeff Weiss; Participants of the 2019 Curatorial Intensive in Cape Town, South Africa⠀ ⠀ #Curatorsintl #ICIIntensives #arthistory #curatorialstudies #professionalpractice #curator #okwuienwezor #stevemcqueen
  • Work Wednesday On Wednesdays we focus on work, all of the professional opportunities available to students studying Art History and/or Curatorial Studies. . Attention all AUC students! Where are you interning this summer? The AUC Art Collective offers paid summer internships to majors and minors, swipe for more info and join us for an information session to learn more! @spelman_college @morehouse1867 @cau1988 @spelman_avc
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    Work Wednesday On Wednesdays we focus on work, all of the professional opportunities available to students studying Art History and/or Curatorial Studies. . Attention all AUC students! Where are you interning this summer? The AUC Art Collective offers paid summer internships to majors and minors, swipe for more info and join us for an information session to learn more! @spelman_college @morehouse1867 @cau1988 @spelman_avc
  • Transactions Tuesday On Tuesdays we look at the various venues for exchange & interaction between people and works of art . Penn State University Press @psupress has recently released a new title, DESIGNING A NEW TRADITION: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness by Rebecca VanDiver @rebeccakeeganvandiver, Assistant Professor of African American Art at Vanderbilt University. . In Designing a New Tradition, Rebecca VanDiver presents a fresh perspective on the art and career of Loïs Mailou Jones. Considering the importance of Africa for Jones’s work and examining the broader roles played by class, gender, and politics in constructions of African American art histories as a whole, VanDiver makes a convincing case for Jones’s lasting place in American art history. . VanDiver repositions Jones’s work within the canon of American art, situating the artist’s production within the larger cultural and aesthetic debates of the twentieth century, including modernism, abstraction, the Harlem Renaissance, feminism, Négritude, and Pan-Africanism... [and] offers a new framework for thinking about the connection between America and Africa and the role of the African diaspora in the creation of African American artistic identity. . All text and visuals via psupress.org. Read the full details online and a link for the book and a sample chapter! . Img 1) Loïs Mailou Jones in her Parisian studio ca. 1938. Courtesy Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscripts Division, Howard University, Washington D.C. #arthistory #curatorialstudies #africandiasporastudies #french #art #artist #english #expandingthecanon
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    Transactions Tuesday On Tuesdays we look at the various venues for exchange & interaction between people and works of art . Penn State University Press @psupress has recently released a new title, DESIGNING A NEW TRADITION: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness by Rebecca VanDiver @rebeccakeeganvandiver, Assistant Professor of African American Art at Vanderbilt University. . In Designing a New Tradition, Rebecca VanDiver presents a fresh perspective on the art and career of Loïs Mailou Jones. Considering the importance of Africa for Jones’s work and examining the broader roles played by class, gender, and politics in constructions of African American art histories as a whole, VanDiver makes a convincing case for Jones’s lasting place in American art history. . VanDiver repositions Jones’s work within the canon of American art, situating the artist’s production within the larger cultural and aesthetic debates of the twentieth century, including modernism, abstraction, the Harlem Renaissance, feminism, Négritude, and Pan-Africanism... [and] offers a new framework for thinking about the connection between America and Africa and the role of the African diaspora in the creation of African American artistic identity. . All text and visuals via psupress.org. Read the full details online and a link for the book and a sample chapter! . Img 1) Loïs Mailou Jones in her Parisian studio ca. 1938. Courtesy Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscripts Division, Howard University, Washington D.C. #arthistory #curatorialstudies #africandiasporastudies #french #art #artist #english #expandingthecanon
  • Monday (Art) Making Mondays are for artists! . Announced earlier this month, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA will be the eighth artist to receive the prestigious White Chapel Gallery’s prestigious Art Icon Award! Launched in 2014, the Art Icon Award celebrates the work of an artist who has made a profound contribution to a particular medium, influencing their own and subsequent generations of artists. . Shonibare is internationally renowned for his multi-layered work that explores issues of race, class and colonialism through his multi-disciplinary practice. Often incorporating references from Western art history and literature, his work questions the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities within the context of globalisation. . On Monday 22 March 2021, Whitechapel will host its first virtual gala celebration in honour of Shonibare, supported by the Swarovski Foundation. All funds raised from the gala and auction will support Whitechapel Gallery’s pioneering education and community programmes. . All text via whitechapelgallery.org . Img 1) Shonibare in his London studio, with sculptures featuring his signature batik cloth. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES MOLLISON FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE @shonibarestudio @whitechapelgallery #articon2021 #swarovski #arthistory #curatorialstudies #internationalstudies #art #sociology #anthropology #history
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    Monday (Art) Making Mondays are for artists! . Announced earlier this month, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA will be the eighth artist to receive the prestigious White Chapel Gallery’s prestigious Art Icon Award! Launched in 2014, the Art Icon Award celebrates the work of an artist who has made a profound contribution to a particular medium, influencing their own and subsequent generations of artists. . Shonibare is internationally renowned for his multi-layered work that explores issues of race, class and colonialism through his multi-disciplinary practice. Often incorporating references from Western art history and literature, his work questions the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities within the context of globalisation. . On Monday 22 March 2021, Whitechapel will host its first virtual gala celebration in honour of Shonibare, supported by the Swarovski Foundation. All funds raised from the gala and auction will support Whitechapel Gallery’s pioneering education and community programmes. . All text via whitechapelgallery.org . Img 1) Shonibare in his London studio, with sculptures featuring his signature batik cloth. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES MOLLISON FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE @shonibarestudio @whitechapelgallery #articon2021 #swarovski #arthistory #curatorialstudies #internationalstudies #art #sociology #anthropology #history
  • Friday Facts On Friday, we’re all about the facts! What happened? When? . Barbara A. Wolanin did not leave her TV much on Wednesday afternoon, watching terrified, she said, as hundreds of Trump rioters rushed into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building where eight large, framed historical paintings hang. She once was curator for the Architect of the Capitol, the office that preserves and maintains the building’s art and architecture. ...For nearly four hours, the collection she had spent more than 30 years caring for was at the mercy of a mob... . Detailed damage assessments from the Architect of the Capitol or the U.S. Capitol Police have yet to be released. But the singular works of art that curators consider the treasures of the building did not appear to have suffered any major damage. . Her greatest concern was the large-scale, 18-foot paintings by Trumbull and other artists that depict scenes from the republic’s founding...Particularly vulnerable was the National Statuary Hall to the south of the Rotunda, which contains 35 statues of prominent Americans, part of a collection of 100 statues at the Capitol — two from each of the 50 states — that memorialize such notable figures as Samuel Adams, Rosa Parks and Thomas Edison. . ...On Thursday, some historical preservationists discussed the damage, including the question of whether some of it should be left as a historical marker of the day.  . Read the complete article online at nytimes.com “Curators Scour Capitol for Damage to the Building or Its Art” By Sarah Bahr, Published Jan. 7, 2021
 @nytimes #arthistory #curatorialstudies #artconservation #culturalheritage #preservation #history #capitolbuilding
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    Friday Facts On Friday, we’re all about the facts! What happened? When? . Barbara A. Wolanin did not leave her TV much on Wednesday afternoon, watching terrified, she said, as hundreds of Trump rioters rushed into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building where eight large, framed historical paintings hang. She once was curator for the Architect of the Capitol, the office that preserves and maintains the building’s art and architecture. ...For nearly four hours, the collection she had spent more than 30 years caring for was at the mercy of a mob... . Detailed damage assessments from the Architect of the Capitol or the U.S. Capitol Police have yet to be released. But the singular works of art that curators consider the treasures of the building did not appear to have suffered any major damage. . Her greatest concern was the large-scale, 18-foot paintings by Trumbull and other artists that depict scenes from the republic’s founding...Particularly vulnerable was the National Statuary Hall to the south of the Rotunda, which contains 35 statues of prominent Americans, part of a collection of 100 statues at the Capitol — two from each of the 50 states — that memorialize such notable figures as Samuel Adams, Rosa Parks and Thomas Edison. . ...On Thursday, some historical preservationists discussed the damage, including the question of whether some of it should be left as a historical marker of the day.  . Read the complete article online at nytimes.com “Curators Scour Capitol for Damage to the Building or Its Art” By Sarah Bahr, Published Jan. 7, 2021
 @nytimes #arthistory #curatorialstudies #artconservation #culturalheritage #preservation #history #capitolbuilding
  • Too Good to Miss Thursday On Thursday’s we repost posts that have caught our attention! . Congratulations!!! to one of our External Advisory Group members, Akili Tommasino who has announced that he will be joining the curatorial team at the MET!! (where another one of our External Advisory Group members, Dr. Denise Murrell @denisemurrellphd is a curator as well). Well done Akili!! 👏🏽 . Reposted • @akilitommasino At 18 years of age, I hatched an improbable plan (complete with an Excel® spreadsheet projecting hypothetical years of graduate school, international travel, and a wishlist of professional opportunities) to become a curator at a local museum with a global reputation, of which I quite literally often dreamt. 15 years later, I am thrilled to share the wonderful news that I will be joining The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. I am deeply grateful to God my provider, my loving family and close friends, as well as my supportive mentors and brilliant former colleagues, especially those with whom I have collaborated for the past two years @mfaboston. (Link in bio) __ #tbt 2005 Poly Prep yearbook photo; 2021 headshot by Gregston Hurdle (@susgod.bs )
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    Too Good to Miss Thursday On Thursday’s we repost posts that have caught our attention! . Congratulations!!! to one of our External Advisory Group members, Akili Tommasino who has announced that he will be joining the curatorial team at the MET!! (where another one of our External Advisory Group members, Dr. Denise Murrell @denisemurrellphd is a curator as well). Well done Akili!! 👏🏽 . Reposted • @akilitommasino At 18 years of age, I hatched an improbable plan (complete with an Excel® spreadsheet projecting hypothetical years of graduate school, international travel, and a wishlist of professional opportunities) to become a curator at a local museum with a global reputation, of which I quite literally often dreamt. 15 years later, I am thrilled to share the wonderful news that I will be joining The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. I am deeply grateful to God my provider, my loving family and close friends, as well as my supportive mentors and brilliant former colleagues, especially those with whom I have collaborated for the past two years @mfaboston. (Link in bio) __ #tbt 2005 Poly Prep yearbook photo; 2021 headshot by Gregston Hurdle (@susgod.bs )
  • Work Wednesday On Wednesdays we focus on work, all of the professional opportunities available to students studying Art History and/or Curatorial Studies. . *Political Edition* Congratulations are in order for Raphael Warnock @raphaelwarnock @morehouse1867 (Morehouse College C’91 ) and Jon Ossoff @jonossoff who have both won Senate seats! . In the video Arts Advocate, Raphael Warnock shares his support for Georgia's Arts & Culture with Georgians for the Arts @ga4arts , stating “I am honored to have the support of Georgians for the Arts and commit to strongly supporting the arts community as U.S. Senator. As Georgia's Senator, I will be dedicated to investments in the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Also, the full funding for arts education in all public schools and greater emphasis on STEAM programs contributing to a well-rounded education and world-class creative workforce” . Georgians for the Arts, a 501c4 established in 2019, has a mission to provide vision, leadership, and resources that ensure the growth, prosperity, and sustainability of arts and culture in Georgia.  www.georgiansforthearts.org . Text and video courtesy of Georgians for the Arts. #arthistory #curatorialstudies #artsadvocate #artsadvocacy #democracy #politicalscience
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    Work Wednesday On Wednesdays we focus on work, all of the professional opportunities available to students studying Art History and/or Curatorial Studies. . *Political Edition* Congratulations are in order for Raphael Warnock @raphaelwarnock @morehouse1867 (Morehouse College C’91 ) and Jon Ossoff @jonossoff who have both won Senate seats! . In the video Arts Advocate, Raphael Warnock shares his support for Georgia's Arts & Culture with Georgians for the Arts @ga4arts , stating “I am honored to have the support of Georgians for the Arts and commit to strongly supporting the arts community as U.S. Senator. As Georgia's Senator, I will be dedicated to investments in the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Also, the full funding for arts education in all public schools and greater emphasis on STEAM programs contributing to a well-rounded education and world-class creative workforce” . Georgians for the Arts, a 501c4 established in 2019, has a mission to provide vision, leadership, and resources that ensure the growth, prosperity, and sustainability of arts and culture in Georgia.  www.georgiansforthearts.org . Text and video courtesy of Georgians for the Arts. #arthistory #curatorialstudies #artsadvocate #artsadvocacy #democracy #politicalscience
  • Transactions Tuesday On Tuesdays we look at the various venues for exchange & interaction between people and works of art . The College Art Association’s Art Journal Winter 2020 marks the first time in the journal’s eighty-year history that an issue has been dedicated to the experience of Blackness in the United States. . It responds to the historical moment, including the heightened racial politics of white supremacy; the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on Black and Brown communities; and the hypervisibility of anti-Black violence and Black death. The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd have sparked both outrage and solidarity, reenergizing mass-scale civil rights movements. While this volume focuses on the experience of Blackness in the United States, protests worldwide have demonstrated that the struggle is shared. . All text and images via the Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board @caavisual . Swipe for more. The full issue is available to CAA members. . Img 1 - 2) Cover & Table of Contents Img 3) Allison Janae Hamilton, Floridawater IV, 2019, archival pigment print, 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm), signed edition of 5 (Artist’s Project) Img 4) Texturing Abstraction: Howardena Pindell’s Cut and Sewn Paintings Sarah Louise Cowan Img 5) Queer (Be)Longing: Glenn Ligon’s Million Man March Series and the Civil Rights Movement’s Legacy Kim Bobier Img 6)Blackouts and Other Visual Escapes Sampada Aranke Img 7)Burning All Illusion: Abstraction, Black Life, and the Unmaking of White Supremacy Leigh Raiford #arthistory #curatorialstudies #art #blacklivesmatter #politicalscience #history #sociology #highereducation
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    Transactions Tuesday On Tuesdays we look at the various venues for exchange & interaction between people and works of art . The College Art Association’s Art Journal Winter 2020 marks the first time in the journal’s eighty-year history that an issue has been dedicated to the experience of Blackness in the United States. . It responds to the historical moment, including the heightened racial politics of white supremacy; the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on Black and Brown communities; and the hypervisibility of anti-Black violence and Black death. The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd have sparked both outrage and solidarity, reenergizing mass-scale civil rights movements. While this volume focuses on the experience of Blackness in the United States, protests worldwide have demonstrated that the struggle is shared. . All text and images via the Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board @caavisual . Swipe for more. The full issue is available to CAA members. . Img 1 - 2) Cover & Table of Contents Img 3) Allison Janae Hamilton, Floridawater IV, 2019, archival pigment print, 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm), signed edition of 5 (Artist’s Project) Img 4) Texturing Abstraction: Howardena Pindell’s Cut and Sewn Paintings Sarah Louise Cowan Img 5) Queer (Be)Longing: Glenn Ligon’s Million Man March Series and the Civil Rights Movement’s Legacy Kim Bobier Img 6)Blackouts and Other Visual Escapes Sampada Aranke Img 7)Burning All Illusion: Abstraction, Black Life, and the Unmaking of White Supremacy Leigh Raiford #arthistory #curatorialstudies #art #blacklivesmatter #politicalscience #history #sociology #highereducation