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City Life Org – The Whitney Museum Announces Jaune Quick-to-See Smith to Deliver Walter Annenberg Lecture on May 18

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City Life Org – The Whitney Museum Announces Jaune Quick-to-See Smith to Deliver Walter Annenberg Lecture on May 18
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Homeland, 2017. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 1/4 x 72 1/8 (122.6 x 183.2 cm). Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; bequest of John Mortimer Schiff by exchange 2018:12. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Photograph by Tom Loonan and Brenda Bieger for Buffalo AKG Art Museum

The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that groundbreaking artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will present the 2023 Walter Annenberg Lecture on Thursday, May 18, at 6:30 pm in the Museum’s Susan and John Hess Family Theater and online. Smith, whose acclaimed career retrospective Memory Map is currently on view at the Museum through August 13, will be joined in conversation by Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director.

For over five decades, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, has examined and interpreted life in America through Native ideology, focusing on pressing issues of land, racism, and cultural preservation. Her pointed and often humorous works employ a rich visual vocabulary inspired by modern art historical movements like Pop and Abstract Expressionism and potent symbols of her own culture and identity, such as horses, bison, and canoes, to challenge the mainstream narratives and visual languages of American culture. The lecture will explore Smith’s exceptional and unorthodox career as an artist, activist, curator, educator, and advocate.

This annual lecture is given in honor of the late Walter H. Annenberg, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and former ambassador. Past Annenberg Lecture participants include Dawoud Bey (2021), Julie Mehretu (2020 lecture, presented in Spring 2021), Jason Moran (2019), Kara Walker (2018), Catherine Opie (2017), Martha Rosler (2016), and Frank Stella (2015).

Audiences can register for the Zoom livestream on whitney.org.

On Friday, May 19, from 11 am–8 pm, the Museum will host a convening with an intergenerational group of Native American artists, curators, and scholars for conversations about the ongoing and overarching concerns in Smith’s work, including land, sovereignty, and Indigenous knowledge and identity. The program takes inspiration from Smith’s work as an artist and as an educator and curator by bringing together many communities that she has been in dialogue with throughout her career. For more information including a list of participating artists and scholars visit the museum’s website.

About Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940) is a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana. Smith has been creating complex abstract paintings and prints since the 1970s. Combining appropriated imagery from commercial slogans and signage, art history, and personal narratives, she forges an intimate visual language to convey her insistent socio-political commentary with powerful clarity. Smith’s multifaceted work is grounded in themes of personal and political identity.

Smith received an AA degree from Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington, in 1960; a BA in art education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts, in 1976; and an MA in Visual Arts from the University of New Mexico in 1980.

Smith has received numerous awards, including the Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (1987); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (1996); Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award (1997); College Art Association Women in the Arts Award (2002); New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2005); ArtTable Artist Honoree (2011); Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Living Artist of Distinction Award (2012); Montana Governor’s Award (2018); New York Foundation for the Arts Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award (2019); United States Artists Fellowship (2020); Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2022); and Barnard College’s Medal of Distinction (2022). Smith has been honored with honorary doctorates from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1992); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1998); Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston (2003); and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (2009).

Smith’s work is in the collections of the Albuquerque Museum; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis; Heard Museum, Phoenix; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Missoula Art Museum, Montana; Museo de Arte Moderno, Quito, Ecuador; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yellowstone Art Museum, Montana, among many others.

About Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map is a celebration of fifty years of work by a groundbreaking artist. A citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Smith has charted an exceptional and unorthodox career as an artist, activist, curator, educator, and advocate. The exhibition highlights how Smith uses her drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures to tell stories that flip commonly held conceptions of historical narratives and illuminate absurdities in the formation of dominant culture. Memory Map is the largest and most comprehensive showcase of Smith’s career to date. Including more than 130 works, the exhibition offers a new framework to consider contemporary Native American art.

WALTER ANNENBERG LECTURE

In honor of the late Walter H. Annenberg—philanthropist, patron of the arts, and former ambassador—the Whitney Museum of American Art established the Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture to advance this country’s understanding of its art and culture. Support for this lecture and for public programs at the Whitney Museum is provided, in part, by GRoW @ Annenberg, a philanthropic initiative led by Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, Vice President and Director of the Annenberg Foundation, and by members of the Whitney’s Education Committee.

EXHIBITION SUPPORT

Generous support for Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map is provided by Judy Hart Angelo; the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation; Lise and Michael Evans; the Henry Luce Foundation; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Kevin and Rosemary McNeely, Manitou Fund; the Terra Foundation for American Art; and the Whitney’s National Committee.

Major support is provided by Forge Project, Garth Greenan Gallery, Sueyun and Gene Locks, and Susan and Larry Marx.

Significant support is provided by Chrissy Taylor and Lee Broughton, Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia, Ashley Leeds and Christopher Harland, Susan Hayden, John and Susan Horseman Collection/Horseman Foundation, The Keith Haring Foundation Exhibition Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Brooke Garber Neidich and Daniel M. Neidich, and Nancy and Fred Poses.

Additional support is provided by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund and Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg.

ABOUT THE WHITNEY

The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Whitney is located in Lenapehoking, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today.

As a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgement, visit the Museum’s website.

VISITOR INFORMATION

The Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets, New York City. Public hours are: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:30 am–6 pm; Friday, 10:30 am–10 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am–6 pm. Closed Tuesday. Visitors eighteen years and under and Whitney members: FREE. Admission is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 7–10 pm. COVID-19 vaccination and face coverings are not required but strongly recommended. We encourage all visitors to wear face coverings that cover the nose and mouth throughout their visit.

Symposium: Native Americans look back at art to shape future

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Symposium: Native Americans look back at art to shape future

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TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma – Indigenous artists of the past, and today’s artists, are helping mold the future, an expert on curating artwork told an audience during a recent event in the capital city of the country’s largest Native tribe.

Dr. Miranda Belarde-Lewis, assistant professor at the University of Washington and a curator, spoke during the 50th annual Symposium on the American Indian at Northeastern University.

“Relationality is something we have latched onto, how native communities continue to make our systems of knowledge visible,” she said.

Tribal relationships with the land, water, ceremonies and stories are the nouns in the vocabulary she used, resulting in the objects people can see in museums. The verbs are people’s actions — how indigenous people deliberately engage with the world, through their people, places and ideas. Proper curating of art work is imperative in reflecting indigenous people’s culture now and helping it create change in the future.

Belarde-Lewis showed the photo of a robe created by an artist in Sitka, AK. A school of herring, depicted in gold, swim across a burgundy background. The fish are plentiful on the back of the road, diminishing to a narrow group of fish and finally a single fish as they approach the wearer’s neck.

The robe was created to protest the path to extinction facing the herring because of overfishing.

“Commercial fishing — they just scoop up everything in their nets,” Belarde-Lewis said. “This is showing how the herring would swim everywhere, but now they are getting channel into this little area.”

The fish population has been depleted because of man’s activities — including pollution and overfishing. The robe depicts the situation in an effort to depict this depletion and encourage change.

Belarde-Lewis praised the work of several artists, including Cherokees Roy Boney Jr. and Jane Osti.

Boney has the skill to say things creatively on a regular basis with meaning in his Daily Sketches.

“Colonization is a system because it works every day. It doesn’t take a day off,” she said.

Osti, a renowned potter, creates clay vessels and paddles “showing how long our systems of technology are unique to us.” The pottery isn’t necessarily flashy but it depicts tradition and objects that have been useful to Cherokee cooks for centuries.

“All the people who Jane has worked with, who Jane is mentoring, they will continue that technology,” Belarde-Lewis said.

She also spoke of artist collectives, saying they were working toward a future where all indigenous creatures can thrive side by side.

Some people are put off by believing art musicians are snobby institutions not relevant to most people. But curating according to Belarde-Lewis’ philosophy encourages communication and discussing art as it is socially relevant.

“Sometimes it’s as simple as pulling up a chair and talking to people,” she said.

Among the contemporary curators she praised was America Meredith, a Cherokee and editor of First American Art magazine.

She and other renowned curators have the wealth of experience needed for cultural preservation, Belarde-Lewis said. They can walk into a gallery and tell if something just isn’t right. They can work correct the exhibit, to make it convey the message needed in today’s society.

“The artists are leading the way. The curators are holding it and the curators are presenting their work to our people and the world,” she said.

She quoted Dr. Jolene Rickard on how curating tribal art relates to sovereignty: “Sovereignty is the border that shifts indigenous experience from a victimized stance to a strategic one. The recognition of this puts brains in our heads and muscle in our bones.”

The curator’s knowledge and discretion are imperative, Belarde-Lewis said.

“The artists are leading the way. The curators are holding it and the curators are presenting their work to our people and the world,” she said.

“There are a lot of things that are out of our control, but our choices are our own.”

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Iconic artists, actors, musicians honored with plaque on Philadelphia Walk of Fame on Broad Street

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Iconic artists, actors, musicians honored with plaque on Philadelphia Walk of Fame on Broad Street

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — From doo-wop musicians to Broadway legends and beyond, iconic artists that have made their mark in Philadelphia were honored on Thursday with a special tribute.

Their plaques were unveiled on the Philadelphia Walk of Fame on Broad Street.

“I’m happy to have this honor because it’s a long time coming,” said Norman E. Burnett with The Tymes.

The Tymes, a doo-wop group from the 50s, was among the inductees.

Also honored with a plaque were former Governer Ed Rendell, The Bacon Brothers, James DePreist, radio host John DiBella, and Patty Jackson, among others.

“To be on this walk with so many greats, and to be the first woman in radio, because I stand on the backs of many great women,” said Jackson, WDAS-FM radio host. “I am overjoyed.”

Jackson told 6abc she’s currently writing a book about her life in radio, empowering others, and overcoming a major health scare.

“Eight years ago I suffered a stroke. I lost my vision, I couldn’t walk, but I never lost my ability to talk, and getting back on my feet made me even more grateful,” she said.

Leslie Odom Jr., a Philadelphia native and a breakout star in Broadway’s hit show ‘Hamilton’, was also honored with a plaque.

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“I was already coming for Patty and then they added me to the list, and I was like ‘Amazing!'” he said.

The Tony, Emmy, and Grammy award-winner had a message for Philadelphia’s youth.

“Allow the resources of this city to support you as they’ve supported me. You can go as far as you dream,” said Odom.

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Winners and One Refused Prize |

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Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Winners and One Refused Prize |

During a special gala ceremony in London, the World Photography Organization announced the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. After the ceremony, German photographer Boris Eldagsen refused his prize, trying to discuss the role of AI in photography.

If you are not familiar with the Sony World Photography Awards, it’s a competition for photographers and photography artists that was established in 2007. Now, it’s one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious photography competitions in the world. It consists of four different competitions: Professional, Open, Student, and Youth.

The gala award ceremony was held in London on April 13, where the winners of the event were announced and awarded. The event was presented by broadcaster and art historian Kate Bryan.

There were over 415,000 images send in worldwide, from over 200 countries. From these contributions, photographer Edgar Martins from Portugal was awarded Photographer of the Year for his series “Our War.” The series was born from his search for the truth about the dead of his friend and photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who was killed in 2011 during the Libyan Civil War.

This year there was also a special Sustainability Prize, which was won by Alessandro Cinque from Italy. His series, “Atrapanieblas,” documents an innovative solution to tackle water shortages in Lima, Peru by special fog nets. Water is collected for the local residents by using these fog nets, which can collect up to 200 liters of water per day.

The Professional Competition Winners

The winners of the Professional Competition were selected from participants that submitted series of five to ten images. This year’s winners were:

  • Architecture and design: Fan Li from the China Mainland for his series “Cement Factory.”
  • Creative: Lee-Ann Olwage from South Africa for her series “The Right to Play.”
  • Documentary projects: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham from the United Kingdom for his series “The Women’s Peace Movement in Congo.”
  • Environment: Marisol Mendez from Bolivia together with Federico Kaplan from Argentina for their series “Miruku.”
  • Landscape: Kacper Kowalski from Poland for his series “Event Horizon.”
  • Portfolio: James Deavin from the United Kingdom for his submission ” Portfolio.”
  • Portraiture: Edgar Martins from Portugal for his series “Our War.”
  • Sport: Al Bello from the United States for his series “Female Pro Baseball Player Succeeds in All Male Pro League.”
  • Still Life: Kechun Zhang from the China Mainland for his series “The Sky Garden.”
  • Wildlife and nature: Corey Arnold from the United States for his series “Cities Gone Wild.“

Unfortunately, not all winners from the China Mainland were able to attend the gala award ceremony, but they did respond by a video message that was broadcast during the event.

All winning series can be found on the website of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023.

Photographers of the Year

There were 10 Open Category winners, from which Dinorah Graue Obscura from Mexico won the Open Photographer of Year Award with her photo of two caracara birds.

Student Photographer of the year is won by Long Jing of the Yunnan Arts University. Another Chinese photographer, the 19-year-old Hai Wang, was awarded Youth Photographer of the year. The Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi was rewarded for her outstanding contribution to photography, capturing intimate images of moments of everyday life.

For the Open Competition, the following winners were announced:

  • Architecture: Mark Benham  from the United Kingdom.
  • Lifestyle: Azim Khan Ronnie from Bangladesh.
  • Object: Mieke Douglas from the Netherlands.
  • Travel: Max Vere-Hodge from the United Kingdom.
  • Motion: Zhenhuan Zhou from the China Mainland.
  • Portraiture: Sukhy Hullait from the United Kingdom.
  • Landscape: Giorgos Rousopoulos from Greece.
  • Natural world and wildlife: Dinorah Graue Obscura from Mexico.
  • Street photography: Andreas Mikonauschke from Germany.

No Winner for the Creative Open Competition Category

If you search for the winner of the Creative Open Competition, you will find only a shortlist of photographers and not a winner. The award was first given to a German photographer named Boris Eldagsen for his image “The Electrician.” But after he was awarded, he took the stage just after the gala diner to decline the prize. He proclaimed it was an AI-generated image, part of a series called “Pseudomnesia: Fake Memories.” With his action, he wanted to give attention to the growing AI-generated images and to start a discussion on the role of AI in modern photography.

The photo is no longer shown or mentioned on the website of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. 

Exhibition at Somerset House, London

From April 14th until May 1st, 2023, the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition can be visited at Somerset House in London. All winning photographs are showcased, including a curated selection of 20 photographs by photographer Rinko Kawauchi from Japan.  

There is also a solo presentation by Adam Furguson, the Photographer of Year 2022 winner. His series “Silent Wind, Roaring Sky” shows the remote lives of the communities in Australia’s Outback. For more information, you can visit the website of the World Photography Organization.

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