The Whitney Biennial: 75 Artists Are In, and One Dissenter Steps Out (The New York Times)
This year’s Whitney Biennial, considered the country’s most important showcase of contemporary art, has 75 participating artists — and one who has already withdrawn.
Filmmaker’s Incubator –Firelight Documentary Lab – Sends Two Films to Sundance: “Always in Season” and “Words from a Bear”
New York, NY – November 30, 2018 – Stanley Nelson’s much anticipated film on the life of jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, his company Firelight Films announced today. Produced with Eagle Rock Entertainment and American Masters Pictures, MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOLis a definitive account of the man behind the legend.
In addition, two fellows of Nelson’s Documentary Lab, an incubator that supports and mentors filmmakers of color, will be in competition at Sundance: ALWAYS IN SEASON, directed and produced by Jacqueline Olive, which explores the history and legacy of African American lynchings, and WORDS FROM A BEAR, director and producer Jeffrey Palmer’s examination of the Native American writer N. Scott Momaday.
A Massive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Mural Pops Up On The Lower East Side (SecretNYC)
If you’ve walked around the Lower East Side recently you’ve probably noticed the larger-than-life portrait of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Houston.
Where Did That Designer Get That Idea? (New York Times)
LONDON — A few weeks before her London Fashion Week show, scheduled for Sunday, the prizewinning fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner was wandering around a show of a different kind at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery here.
MoMA to Close, Then Open Doors to More Expansive View of Art (New York Times)
As the Museum of Modern Art begins the final stage of its $400 million overhaul, it will close for four months this summer and autumn to reconfigure its galleries, rehang the entire collection and rethink the way that the story of modern and contemporary art is presented to the public.
Proposed Public Art Project David Hammons, Day's End
The Whitney has proposed a public art project by David Hammons (b. 1943) that would be located in Hudson River Park along the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula, directly across from the Museum.
Did ‘Hamilton’ Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So (The New York Times)
The 15 or 20 minutes before the performance ticked by the same way they do on nights when Rome Neal presides over jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. But this time Mr. Neal was directing a reading of a play. It takes aim at the sensation that is the theatrical juggernaut “Hamilton” and its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.