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November 26, 2005
In other news ...
Albert Chong, Aunt Winnie, 1995, chromogenic color print
SF has got themselves another museum. According to the LAT, MoAD is finally opening and it looks like it will have two interesting shows to help launch itself into the Bay Area scene:
"Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections From the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Contemporary Art Collections," includes 39 works — in photography, painting, mixed-media, video and new genre — by such artists as Hew Locke, Willie Cole, Glenn Ligon, Malick Sidibe, Kara Walker, Chris Ofili, Fred Wilson, Isaac Julien and Albert Chong. A mixed-media piece, "Bye, Bye Blackbird" by L.A. artist Alison Saar, consists of a metal suitcase, lighted by neon, underneath a harness of wings made of leather shoe soles. Two untitled 12-color silk-screen works by Iona Rozeal Brown are portraits of a Japanese male and female in dreadlocks and masking, representing the appropriation of hip-hop culture by Japanese youth. The show marks "the first time the Norton collections have allowed an institution to pick out pieces from their collection," Bradley said. Bradley led the marketing of "Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent" for South Bank Centre in London."
I hadn't realized that the Norton's had never done this before and I'm surprised that an LA venue (like CAAM) didn't try to do this first. But then again, does anybody ever ask ME about these things?
Prepare for "diaspora to become the new "synergy".
Posted by lk at November 26, 2005 12:33 PM