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My Favorite Recent Arrivals at the Museum Store!
The Museum Store is always full of an incredible assortment of art books, stunning hand crafted jewelry, clothing, and an array of gifts, but my favorite items at the moment are the glass tumblers featuring Odili Donald Odita’s Refuge & Flight, 2002 and Third Text, 2000. Choose your favorite or buy both to create a set—just make sure to act quickly because they are in limited supply and they are only available at the Studio Museum! The tumblers are sold separately for $10, but Museum members will receive a 20% discount. Visit the Museum Store website here to browse our other fantastic items.
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Is Almost Here!
The Studio Museum is thrilled to announce our participation in the 2011 Smithsonian magazine Museum Day, September 24, 2011! Along with hundreds of other participating institutions across the nation, we will provide free admission to visitors who present a Museum Day Admission Ticket, available for download free of charge on the Museum Day website. Download your ticket now and join us on Saturday!
For more information on participating venues and Museum Day events, visit the website, follow @MuseumDay on twitter, or visit the Faceboook page.
Join Us For Target Free Sundays!
Sundays are often the best days to relax with the ones you love and of course visit the Studio Museum for Target Free Sundays! Throughout August we hosted a number of fun, free activities that the whole family can enjoy, including gallery tours and hands-on activities such as pinhole camera making, collage-making inspired by artist Romare Bearden, and “re-imaging” the photographs of this year’s Expanding the Walls participants.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya's "Studio Work"
During Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s residency at the Studio Museum he created a series of photographs of friends, fellow artists and members of his community in his studio. Some of these works are featured in an installation entitled Studio Work (2011) in Evidence of Accumulation, along with brand new works by Sepuya’s fellow artists in residence Simone Leigh and Kamau Amu Patton.
Studio Magazine Sneak Peak!
With our summer exhibition season upon us, we are just a day away from the arrival of the Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Studio magazine! As usual, the issue will be released with two different covers: one features a stunning painting by Emma Amos in honor of our Spiral exhibition and the other celebrates the Romare Bearden Centennial with a portrait of Bearden by preeminent photographer Frank Stewart.
Starting Thursday, July 14 you can stop by the museum to see our summer exhibitions and pick up a copy for yourself!
Blast from the Past
Freestyle turns 10
Recently I happened across this wonderful photo of the artists in Freestyle (April 28–June 24, 2001)—which celebrates its 10th anniversary this spring!
Flashdance!
join the movement
The entire Museum staff is very inspired to do a little in-office exercise today! Join us!
"Grey Matter" matters.
notes from a Rwandan film premiere
Last night I was lucky to get a ticket to Grey Matter (Matière Grise) at the Tribeca Film Festival (thanks Roya!). Grey Matter is the first feature film by young Rwandan filmmaker Kivu Ruhorahoza. In fact, TFF bills it as "the very first feature-length narrative film directed by a Rwandan filmmaker living in his homeland." I am ashamed to say that given that description, I went to Clearview Chelsea expecting something promising and pretty good, maybe a little Nollywood, maybe a little MFA-in-film. Full of raw promise but needing some refinement. How good could the very first feature film from an entire country be, anyway?
J’aime mon écharpe!
A Fluxus Epiphany
If you have ever seen me in the winter months, you know that my face is more often than not perpetually swaddled, mummy-style, in a thick, black woolen scarf with white cursive writing covering it. But this scarf, pilfered from my mother who bought it in Paris years ago, is more than just a warm and aesthetically-pleasing defense against the cold. What I never realized, until an incredibly astute former colleague and Fluxus connoisseur pointed it out to me only a few weeks ago, is that this scarf is in fact a work of art by French Fluxus artist Ben Vautier (b. 1935).