David Hammons
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THE RISE OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge – even wisdom. Like art. Toni Morrison LIVING BLACK ARTISTS Yamou Abderrahim, Virgil Ablon, Nina Chanel…
Aaron Douglas, Beauford Delaney, Charles Alston, Charles White, David Hammons, Ed Clarke, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Elizabeth Catlett, Emma Amos, Faith Ringgold, Frank Bowling, Glenn Ligon, Hale Woodruff., Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Biggers, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, Robert Colescott, Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Selma Burke, Speaker Victor, Thorton Dial, William H. Johnson
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BASQUIAT’S “DEFACEMENT”: THE UNTOLD STORY
This exhibition takes as its starting point the painting The Death of Michael Stewart, informally known as Defacement, created by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) in 1983. The work commemorates the fate of the young, black artist Michael Stewart at the hands of New York City Transit Police after allegedly tagging a wall in an East Village subway…
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IN MEMORIAM — JOE OVERSTREET
My paintings don’t let the onlooker glance over them, but rather take them deeply into them and let them out—many times by different routes,” the artist Joe Overstreet once said, describing viewing experiences that can be variously harrowing and exhilarating. “These trips are taken sometimes subtly and sometimes suddenly.”…
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DAYS END
New York based artist David Hammons (b. 1943) had his proposed public art project approved by the NYS Legislature this week.Day’s End would be located in Hudson River Park along the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula, directly across from the Museum. The project derives its inspiration and…
West Harlem Art Fund 