DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ The Black Female Artists Redefining Minimalism
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Adam Bradley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

These were some of Kelly’s signature panels: bold, monochromatic shapes of saturated color in oil on canvas. Jones recalls being struck most of all by what Kelly’s work displaced. It occupied the second floor of the museum’s two-story sculpture court, which had been redesigned the previous year to showcase classical sculpture and painting. “They took down all these other artists to put up this suite,” Jones says. Next April, she will take over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof garden, where she’ll debut her first multiwork outdoor sculptural installation.

Persons: JENNIE C, JONES, Ellsworth Kelly, Jones, “, ” Jones, Kelly, Miles Davis’s Organizations: Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum Locations: Gabonese

☆ Meet the Next Generation of Black Folk Singers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What is folk music, though? I like the expansive non-definition proposed by the singer-songwriter and guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, as quoted by Bradley: “Some people call these ‘folk songs,’” he said onstage once. “Well, all the songs that I’ve heard in my life was folk songs. It also features some Black folk pioneers who inspired future generations, like Odetta and Tracy Chapman. May it open your ears and expand your conception of what folk is, and what it can be.

Persons: ”, Adam Bradley, ahistorically, Bradley, Jake Blount, Big Bill Broonzy, ’ ”, I’ve, Kara Jackson, Odetta, Tracy Chapman, Jon Pareles Organizations: “, New York Times Style, Wellington

☆ Black Folk Musicians Are Reclaiming the Genre
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Adam Bradley | Justin French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

[GUITAR PLAYING] I really think folk music can find its origins in all Black music. [BANJO PLAYING] The main thing about folk is it is a storytelling genre. So any genre that conveys a story to the audience I would consider folk music. [FOLK MUSIC PLAYING] There was a particular act called the Carolina Chocolate Drops. I’m also trying to lift up all the different voices so that we have a more well-rounded picture of African-American folk music traditions.

Persons: Gibson, Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson, Joe Thompson, ”, Gwendolyn Brooks, darlin ’ Corey, ’ Corey, ” I’ve, I’m, —, I’ve, We’re, ” “ Organizations: Music, East Tennessee State University, West Locations: Johnson City, That’s, New Orleans, West African, Holbrook

☆ Millions Saw His Paintings on TV. In the Art World, His Work Still Went Unnoticed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Adam Bradley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But another, Sonny Werblin of the New York Jets, offered to pay him a player’s salary to become the team’s official painter. After a year, Barnes had built up enough of a portfolio for Werblin to sponsor Barnes’s first solo show, at the famed Grand Central Art Galleries in Midtown Manhattan. His work, which rendered football as modern-day gladiatorial spectacle, was stylized and dramatic. If the art world was going to reject him, then he would reject it. “When I found out that I didn’t have to belong, really, to that world,” he said, “that was much more assuring to me as a human being.”

Persons: Barnes, Barron Hilton, Sonny Werblin, Barnes’s, ” Barnes, ” Organizations: San Diego Chargers, American Football League, New York Jets, Werblin, Grand Central Art Galleries Locations: Midtown Manhattan, Seattle, backpedal, New York

☆ From Houston to Athens, Rick Lowe Takes His Social Sculpture Global
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Adam Bradley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When I started working on the Victoria Square Project, I was trying to figure out how to connect with that community. These Albanians became the guardians of the space where the Victoria Square Project is held. With the social sculpture work [like Project Row Houses], I think I truly started to understand a broader context for political work. The primary beneficiaries of works like Project Row Houses are people in the Third Ward community. Equally important to making that work happen, though, were the supporters beyond the community from all around the country.

Persons: What’s, you’ve, ”, “ Locations: Houston, Greece, Victoria

Search resuls for: "Adam Bradley"

5 mentions found