Rose Simpson, Groundbeing: Resonance
An article on Rose Simpson’s new monumental clay figures:
An article on Rose Simpson’s new monumental clay figures:
Some information from your colleague Terry Edam:
From your colleague Manju Parikh, an article that includes research on George Morrison:
From your colleague Brenda Haines:
For Max Beckmann, Art’s Ironist, Crisis and Rediscovery – The New York Times
From your colleague Lyn Osgood, an article on the Osage clothing (including wedding wear) in the movie Killers of the Flower Moon.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Scorsese’s Bride Like No Other
A new research resource from your colleague Kay Miller:
New World Objects of Knowledge compressed
“A stunning, richly illustrated hardback cataloging key artifacts from across Latin American art, nature, and history.
From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artifacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world.
With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and museums hosting these objects. Each artifact is accompanied by a comprehensive essay covering its dynamic, often global, history and itinerary. This volume will be an indispensable catalog of New World objects and how they have helped shape our modern world.”
From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert, some background on artist Martin Wong, in connection to an earlier work:
Here is some information from colleagues on Well Baby Clinic by Alice Neel:
Here are some resources to learn more about Norman Akers and his work:
There is some good information in the label, to at least discuss the elk’s presence:
Interference and a Tiny Spot of Hope is a presentation of the past, present, and future. Akers combines flat imagery with illusionistic space to provide an immersive and yet open-ended experience into personal, historical, and cultural issues, such as identity, disruption, dislocation, and belonging. In his paintings, Akers uses Osage stories as metaphors over illustrations, and complexity over a singular, fixed interpretation. The most prominent figure in the painting, the suspended or falling elk, is an important figure in Osage cosmology and becomes a symbol to represent ideas of being between two worlds (Osage and non-Osage), and the precarious place of being between the earth and sky, a fundamental Osage principle of balance in the world. Wind turbines found within the painting and within Osage homelands disrupt the spatial order and space between the earth and sky, and according to Akers, “obscure[d] the horizon….and the blades cut into the earth”. Other features within the painting, including tree stumps and skeletal remains along the riverbed, reference the environmental and cultural disruptions within Osage landscapes.
And here is an article about the artist:
https://www.kansan.com/arts_and_culture/theme-of-lost-identities-within-boundaries-ingrained-in-art-professor-norman-akerss-exhibit-contested-territories/article_93fade32-5e4d-11e5-864f-fb3c6c82acc4.html
And there is this video, and a painting that seems to have some similar themes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MCaPpLxTCI
From your colleague Rose Stanley Gilbert, some information on an artist and work new to our collection:
Front Room, 2022 Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Botswanian
And here is some information from Curator Dennis Jon:
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum-Notes
Press Release – Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum 2022
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Front Room Fact Sheet
(The above includes a link to the painting which was the inspiration for her work.)
From your colleague Susan Arndt, a online catalog to an exhibition of James Phillips’ works, including Cosmic Connection:
From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert, some information on the inspiration for Fourth Family Octagon:
Here is an article from your colleague, Brenda Haines:
How Elizabeth Catlett Lifted Up Black Women Through Art _ At the Smithsonian_ Smithsonian Magazine
For more information about the new acquisition of St. Martin and the Beggar, by Jaume and Pere Serra, check out this catalog from the auction house:
From your colleague Manju Parikh, this article: Open-source encyclopedia puts 10,000 years of Indian art history in one place
and a link to the new open source encyclopedia:
Your colleague Pat Gale provided copy from the AIC catalog on Bisa Butler’s work currently on display in Rituals of Resistance:
Bisa Butler notes from Catalog
And your colleague Sue Hamburge found a link to the actual photograph on which the quilt is based:
Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia]
Askew, Thomas E., 1850?-1914, photographer
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector
and a link to the jpeg: photograph
From your colleague Jean Ann Durades, some current articles:
Kehinde Wiley: Artist Kehinde Wiley: ‘The new work is about what it feels like to be young, Black and alive in the 21st century’
Sanford Biggers: Cracking Codes With Sanford Biggers
Glenn Ligon: “Artists Imagine That Museums Are Brave—They’re Not’: Glenn Ligon on His New Show, Philip Guston, and How Institutions Can Do Better
From your colleague Judy Ericksen, “WHY INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, EDUCATION, HAIR & THE PORTRAYAL OF MASCOTS MATTER.”
From your colleague Brenda Haines, some articles from the New York Times:
The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists – The New York Times
Art That Looks at What Women See – The New York Times
It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon – The New York Times
Check out this terrific guide to the exhibition In the Presence of Our Ancestors!
In the Presence of Our Ancestors Teachers Guide
In this, you’ll find some great information on the artists Thornton Dial, Lola Pettway, Joe Minter, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, and Leroy Almon.