Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Created by artist Kara Walker for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, it is one of the most ambitious installations in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall to date. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Walker’s fountain explores…
Author: Christopher Rogers
ICA Gather x Here We Stand: A Celebration of West Philadelphia
EVERYBODY RSVP. The museum that I serve, The Paul Robeson House & Museum is partnered with the ICA for an end of year event. We are celebrating 35 years of service to West Philadelphia as the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. We’ll have great West Philly folks represent and share about their experiences! Also, I’ll be…
Additional Arts Event This Week: Black Spatial Relics, Thursday.
Join Black Spatial Relics Artists-in-Residence, Julie B. Johnson and muthi reed in converation with Alice Paul Center Visiting Artist and Black Spatial Relics Director, Arielle Julia Brown. Black Spatial Relics is a new performance residency about slavery, justice and freedom. At the intersection of the 400th year anniversary of slavery in the U.S. colonies and…
(not a) COURSE REQUIREMENT: Come to this Theatre Show This Weekend!
PHILLY EDUCATION STORIES a collaboration with Teacher Action Group and Simpatico Theatre Sunday, November 10th at 4:00pm // Monday, November 11th at 6:30pm All performances take place at Theatre Exile, 1340 S. 13th St. (13th and Reed St.) Philadelphia, PA 19147 For the past year, educators and students throughout Philadelphia have been sitting down together…
Vox, Public Art + Archives, The Philadelphia Queer Elders Project
The Philadelphia Queer Elders Project, an archival exhibition and series of programming curated by Anna Pachner and Katie Rauth, aims to celebrate elders’ position in the queer community, highlighting threads of second-wave, lesbian-feminist history and how they translate into contemporary queer thought and space. Stemming from a box of lesbian-centered zines from the 1970s through…
A Wallpaper Gallery is Art a [Black] Millennial Can Afford.
Ming Smith Untitled, New York, ca. 1981 Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York I will never be able to afford to “own” art. At least, I’m not planning to. The biggest gallery that I have is my cell phone wallpaper. And I’m making a switch. I went from Barkley Hendricks for a year….(Shout out to…
Poetry & [Analog] Animation: Gwendolyn Brooks
Spent this weekend trying to find a poem that I will be using for my animation project, and returned to this amazing project from the Poetry Foundation.
The School for Temporary Liveness continues into Tuesday…
I had plans of making it over here this weekend. Didn’t happen. But still…love everything about the concept and the types of artists they brought in. I think the big one I wanted to see was Jackie Wang’s talk about Abolitionist Poetics, featured in her book Carceral Capitalism. Oh well, next time. See more: https://temporaryliveness.org/about
Exciting, Upcoming Philadelphia Contemporary Installation: Back and Song
I’ve seen both Elissa and Bradford before at the summertime BlackStar Film Festival and it is really exciting and interesting that they are doing an installation here. Philadelphia Contemporary is going to be an interesting institution for Philly in the next couple years. As it looks to insert itself into a hotly contested art debate…
Nina Chanel Abney (Chris Rogers)
Our discussion of what can be made with simple shapes has reminded me of one of my favorite contemporary artists, Nina Chanel Abney. I love the abstraction and references in her work which use bright colors and simple shapes to tell in depth stories. Here’s a sample of what it looks like: Feel free to…
ADDC 401 Fall 2019 