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Thelma Golden: How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change


 Byrma Braham
 

Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture -- and about the meaning of art

Willard Wigan - Micro Sculptor

Byrma Braham 

 Byrma Braham  

Born in 1957 in Birmingham, England, Willard Wigan MBE began his artistic life at a tender age. Suffering from dyslexia and learning difficulties, he struggled at school, finding solace in creating art of such minute proportions that it virtually could not be seen with the naked eye.

Matthew Collins on Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Matthew Collings goes to New York to look at, and think about, the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat had his first solo show in 1982 and immediately became famous. Collings also goes to Los Angeles where he interviews Dennis Hopper, an early collector of Basquiat’s work. The film also includes interviews with Basquiat who died of a herion overdose in 1988.

Studio Visit: Kehinde Wiley


 

Shinique Smith at Steve Turner Contemporary

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Deborah Grant

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Deborah Grant creates cutout sculpture and collage panels that fuse personal history and passions with references to literature and art history, from Basquiat and Bill Traylor to Picasso and Thornton Wilder.

Kerry James Marshall: On Museums


 

Carrie Mae Weems

 

Excerpt of Season 5 PBS Series “Compassion”
 

Jacob Lawrence: An Intimate Portrait

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Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin

 

Features Mickalene Thomas with footage from in-studio visits and MoMA Mixx

Great Museums - Curious about Cuba: Great Museums of Havana


 

"Curious About Cuba: Great Museums of Havana" shows a side of the island nation that we seldom hear about: Cuba’s art, history, and culture.

Avisca Fine Art Gallery Events
 

“Drawn Together”, Avisca Fine Art exhibition at Rogue Space | Chelsea, NYC Feb. 2010.

 

Zoya Taylor at opening reception of two-person exhibition July 9, 2010

 

 

 

Two-woman show: April Harrison and Zoya Taylor,  Avisca Fine Art Gallery,
July 9, 2010

 

Skip Hill “Butterfly Confessions” Exhibition,  Avisca Fine Art Gallery,
August 6, 2010

 

Rory Golden “No Escape from Love” Exhibition,  Avisca Fine Art Gallery,
October 2, 2010

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