Marin Alsop Launches Year-Long Worldwide Project With Four Performances in São Paulo from December 12–15 Marking Her Final Concerts as Chief Conductor of São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Start of Her Tenure as Orchestra’s Conductor of Honor
Maestra Alsop To Lead Renowned Orchestras Across Five Continents In Performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Music From Each Local Community, Culminating at Carnegie Hall in December 2020
Creative Work Kicks Off in New York City, Inspired By New Adaptation of “Ode to Joy” by Former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
Conductor
Marin
Alsop leads
the São
Paulo Symphony Orchestra(OSESP)
in four performances from December
12–15,
launching the ambitious worldwide All
Together: A Global Ode to Joyproject.
These concerts are the first of a range of performances including
Beethoven’s
Ninth
Symphony
to be led by the visionary conductor across five continents from
December
2019
to December
2020 during
the 250th
anniversary celebration of
Ludwig van Beethoven‘s
birth.
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Marin
Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international
music scene, a music director of vision and distinction who
passionately believes that “music has the power to change
lives.” She is recognized across the world for her innovative
approach to programming and for her deep commitment to education and
to the development of audiences of all ages. She has been music
director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007, and
she has had two extensions in her tenure, now confirmed until 2021.
As part of her artistic leadership in Baltimore, Ms. Alsop has
created several bold initiatives: OrchKids, for the city’s
young people, and the BSO Academy and Rusty Musicians, for
adult amateur musicians. In 2012, she became principal conductor and
music director of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, with her
contract now extended to the end of 2019, when she becomes Conductor
of Honor. In September 2019, she became chief conductor of the ORF
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Alsop received the
prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, is an honorary member of the
Royal Academy of Music and Royal Philharmonic Society,
and is the director of graduate conducting at the Johns Hopkins
Peabody Institute. She attended Juilliard and Yale, which awarded
her an honorary doctorate in 2017.
Photo Credit: Marin Alsop. Photo by Grant Leighton.
All Together: A Global Ode to Joy recasts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as a 21st-century call for unity, justice, and empowerment, presenting a rare opportunity for major musical institutions to join in a global conversation as part of a common project. Each partner will work with Ms. Alsop to reimagine the concert experience for their own community, incorporating newly created music alongside the symphony and featuring artists from their own region. In each performance, the ”Ode to Joy” will be adapted or translated anew into a local language. From December 2019 through December 2020, concerts will be presented in São Paulo, Brazil; London, England; New York, New York, USA; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; major centers of New Zealand; Sydney, Australia; Vienna, Austria; and Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa.
When
the project was first announced this year, Ms. Alsop said, “Beethoven
was all about love and joy and celebrating the essence of what it is
to be human and what it is to be connected. That’s why we’re
launching this project. We want to throw the doors to our concert
halls wide open, saying ‘everyone owns this piece, everyone owns
this idea, everyone is welcome, and together we’re much stronger.’”
All
Together: São Paulo
The
São Paulo concerts—marking Ms. Alsop’s last as Chief
Conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and
launching her role as Conductor of Honor—will feature
traditional and contemporary music performed between the movements of
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and a new text of ”Ode
to Joy” into Brazilian Portuguese. The performances explore the
legacy of slavery in Brazil from the 19th century to the present,
drawing a parallel between the time period during which Beethoven
composed his Ninth Symphony and the current affairs of Brazil
in that same era.
Joining
OSESP on
stage at Sala
São Paulo
for the four concerts are members of the São
Paulo Symphony Orchestra Choir,
OSESP
Academic Choir,
and The
São Paulo State Youth Choir.
The first concert onThursday,
December 12
will
be streamed live as part of a
“Digital Concert Hall” broadcast available
on OSESP’s website and social media channels, as well as Carnegie
Hall’s Facebook page.
An additional 160 adult amateur singers join the performance for the
final large-scale presentation onSunday,
December 15
at
Sala São Paulo.
The
Fullness of Color: 1960s Painting, December 18, 2019–August
2020, Tower Gallery 5
The
title of this exhibition was inspired by Systemic Painting, the 1966
Guggenheim exhibition where curator Lawrence Alloway pointed to the
emergence of an artistic style that “combined economy of form and
neatness of surface with fullness of color.” The Fullness of Color
presents artists whose style embodied Alloway’s description. Helen
Frankenthaler had pioneered in 1952 the “soak stain” technique,
whereby she manipulated thinned acrylic washes into the unprimed
cotton fabric of the canvas to produce rich, saturated surfaces.
Those who followed over the next decade similarly handled paint as a
dye that penetrates the fibers of the canvas rather than as a topical
layer brushed over it. Morris Louis and Jules Olitski poured, soaked,
or sprayed the paint onto canvases, thus eliminating the gestural
stroke that had been central to Abstract Expressionism. Figure and
ground became one and the same, united through color. Painters in the
1960s likewise approached relationships between form and color
through geometric languages, as shown in works by Kenneth Noland and
Paul Feeley. The Fullness of Color is a reflection of the
Guggenheim’s historical engagement with this period, highlighting
the varied and complex course abstraction followed in the twentieth
century through examples of works now characterized as Color Field,
geometric abstraction, hard-edge, or systemic painting. This
presentation is organized by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art
and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Marking
Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction, December 18, 2019–July
2020, Tower Gallery 7
During
the 1960s and 70s, many artists working with abstraction turned
toward minimal approaches. As some of them pared compositional,
chromatic, and virtuosic flourishes from their work, a singular
emphasis on their physical engagement with materials emerged. The
pieces they created—whether characterized by interlocking brush
strokes, a pencil moved through wet paint, or a pin repeatedly pushed
through paper—call on viewers to imaginatively reenact aspects of
the creative process. It is a distinctly empathetic mode of
engagement that relies on an awareness of one’s own body, as
inhabited and inhabiting time, and, perhaps even more important, a
consciousness of the embodied experiences of others. Featuring an
international array of paintings and works on paper by Agnes Martin,
Roman Opałka, Park Seo-bo, and others, this presentation selected
from the Guggenheim Museum’s collection explores this tendency,
while considering its rise in multiple milieus and how artists used
it to individualized ends. This exhibition is organized by David
Horowitz, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Countryside,
The Future, February 20–August 14, 2020, Rotunda
Countryside,
The Future, is an exhibition addressing urgent environmental,
political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect and
urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal Director of AMO, the think
tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). A unique
exhibition for the Guggenheim Museum, Countryside, The Future will
explore radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories
collectively identified here as “countryside,” or the 98% of the
earth’s surface not occupied by cities, with a full rotunda
installation premised on original research. The project presents
investigations by AMO, Koolhaas, with students at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing;
Wageningen University, Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi.
The exhibition will examine the modern conception of leisure, large
scale planning by political forces, climate change, migration, human-
and non-human ecosystems, market driven preservation, artificial and
organic coexistence and other forms of radical experimentation that
are altering the landscapes across the world. Countryside, The Future
is organized by Troy Conrad Therrien, Curator of Architecture and
Digital Initiatives, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration
with Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Rita Varjabedian, Anne Schneider,
Aleksander Zinovev, Sebastian Bernardy, Yotam Ben Hur, Valentin
Bansac, with Ashley Mendelsohn, Assistant Curator, Architecture and
Digital Initiatives, at the Guggenheim. Key collaborators include
Niklas Maak, Stephan Petermann, Irma Boom, Janna Bystrykh, Clemens
Driessen, Lenora Ditzler, Kayoko Ota, Linda Nkatha, Etta Mideva
Madete, Keigo Kobayashi, Federico Martelli, Ingo Niermann, James
Westcott, Jiang Jun, Alexandra Kharitonova, Sebastien Marot, Fatma al
Sahlawi and Vivian Song.
Away
from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural, March 28,
2020–February 28, 2021, Thannhauser Gallery 4
This
focused exhibition is dedicated to Jackson Pollock’s 1943 Mural,
the artist’s first large-scale painting. Mural has not been on view
in New York in over twenty years, and this occasion marks its debut
at the Guggenheim since the extensive research and restoration
project undertaken by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J.
Paul Getty Museum. Visionary collector Peggy Guggenheim commissioned
Mural for the first floor entrance hall of her Manhattan townhouse,
prior to Pollock’s first solo exhibition at her museum-gallery Art
of This Century later that same year. Guggenheim’s early support of
Pollock’s work arguably established his career. The year 1943
likewise represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of Pollock’s
artistic style; though not yet working on the floor and from all
sides, the artist began to challenge traditional notions of painting,
combining the technique of easel painting with that of mural
production, all while further experimenting with abstraction. Away
from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural is organized by Megan
Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance. Generous funding for
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural is provided in part by
Mnuchin Gallery.
Knotted,
Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstraction Expressionism, March
28, 2020–February 28, 2021, Robert Mapplethorpe Gallery/Tower 4
In
the spring of 2020, the Guggenheim will include Jackson Pollock’s
groundbreaking, large-scale painting Mural (1943) in the exhibition
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural. In
conjunction with this presentation, Knotted, Torn, Scattered:
Sculpture after Abstraction Expressionism will consider the
legacy of Pollock’s influential painting through work by Guggenheim
collection artists from the 1960s and early 1970s, including Lynda
Benglis, Robert Morris, Senga Nengudi, Richard Serra, and Tony
Smith. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to view
sculptures and installations by a generation of artists who saw in
Pollock’s visionary practice urgent questions about scale,
materials, process, and environment. This exhibition is organized by
Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections.
Gego:
The Emancipated Line, October 9, 2020–March 21, 2021, Rotunda
In
fall 2020, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present the first
major New York museum retrospective devoted to the work of Gertrud
Goldschmidt, also known as Gego (b. 1912, Hamburg, Germany; d.1994,
Caracas, Venezuela). The exhibition within the first five ramps of
the rotunda will chart the evolution of the artist’s distinctive
approach to abstraction through her organic forms, linear structures,
and systematic, spatial investigations. This chronological and
thematic survey will include approximately 200 works of historical
significance from the early 1950s to the early 1990s, including
sculpture, drawings, prints, artist books, and textiles. A trained
architect and engineer at the Technische Hochschule of Stuttgart,
Gego fled Nazi persecution in 1939 and immigrated to Venezuela, where
she remained for the rest of her life. This presentation will
showcase her development across multiple disciplines as well as
ground her practice within the emerging artistic movements of the
second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition and its
accompanying catalogue will demonstrate Gego’s significant formal
and conceptual contributions to modern and contemporary art,
highlighting her intersections with key transnational art movements
including Geometric Abstraction and Kinetic Art in the 1950-60s, and
Minimalism and Post-minimalism in the 1960-70s. The Guggenheim Museum
has a distinguished history of presenting groundbreaking solo
exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists whose work aligns with
the founding mission championing abstract art, including Ellsworth
Kelly, Agnes Martin and James Turrell. Expanding upon this legacy,
the presentation aims to advance the understanding and appreciation
of Gego’s work within the larger global context of twentieth
century modernism. Gego: The Emancipated Line is organized by Pablo
León de la Barra, Curator at Large, Latin America, and Geaninne
Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Associate Curator, with the support of Kyung
An, Assistant Curator, Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Sarah
Sze, October 9, 2020–March 21, 2021, Rotunda Ramp 6 and
Tower Gallery 7
In
fall 2020, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a special
exhibition by Sarah Sze (b. 1969, Boston) that will immerse visitors
in today’s generative proliferation of images through painting,
sculpture, print, sound, video and photography. Beginning on the
sixth ramp of the rotunda, a site-specific installation of works
created by the artist will trace the museum’s architecture and
culminate at the apex of the Frank Lloyd Wright building in Tower 7,
with the New York premiere of Timekeeper (2016), from the museum’s
collection. Monumental, multisensory, and kaleidoscopic, Timekeeper
combines everyday objects—a table from the artist’s studio,
scraps of paper, shards of mirrored glass, potted plants—with
whirling video projections of things in motion—a bird in flight,
churning waves, a running cheetah. Embedded in this living
scaffolding of experience and memory are digital clocks indicating
time from around the world, underscoring the multiple simultaneities
of human existence. This presentation brings together the diverse
elements that embody the artist’s meditation on the various ways in
which the passage of time is experienced and attests to Sze’s
unprecedented approach to materials and space. With this exhibition,
the museum builds upon its distinguished history of championing the
visionary engagements of living artists with Frank Lloyd Wright’s
unique architecture. This presentation is organized by Nancy Spector,
Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator with
Kyung An, Assistant Curator, Asian Art.
Denver’s Newest Holiday Attraction – A 110-Foot Digital Tree – Amplifies The Excitement Around The City’s Seasonal Blockbuster Exhibitions, Events And Performing Arts
This
year, along with hundreds of holiday traditions and festivities, The
Mile High City will feature two
brand-new lighting attractions illuminating downtown, making the city
look and feel more festive than ever. The Mile
High Tree – the tallest digital tree in North America –
will feature pre-programmed LED light shows choreographed to
multicultural holiday music; and Night
Lights Denver – an outdoor projection mapping
installation featuring local artists – will also light up the city
skyline.
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These
new attractions complement the already robust programming that makes
up Denver’s Mile High Holidays.
There are also world-class exhibitions, like Claude Monet: The
Truth of Nature and The Science Behind Pixar, at the
city’s museums; innovative and immersive performing arts like Camp
Christmas and movies with the Colorado Symphony; and
plenty of local gifts to be found in neighborhoods, galleries,
boutique shops and marketplaces.
Below
are just a few experiences to be found during Mile High Holidays.
For more information on how to spend a night or a long weekend in
Denver, and to take advantage of holiday hotel deals starting at $99,
visit www.MileHighHolidays.com.
Blockbuster
Exhibitions
Claude
Monet: The Truth of Nature, through February 2, 2020
The
Denver Art Museum is the sole U.S. venue for the most
comprehensive exhibition of Monet paintings in more than two decades.
The exhibition features more than 100 paintings spanning Monet’s
entire career and focuses on the celebrated French impressionist
artist’s enduring relationship with nature and his response to the
varied and distinct places in which he worked. In connection with
Denver Art Museum, several hotels have created VIP packages
that include untimed, skip-the-line tickets, which allow access to
the exhibition even if the date is sold out to the general public;
these packages can be found at https://monetindenver.com.
The
Science Behind Pixar, through April 5, 2020
Enjoy
a unique look into the Pixar process, and explore the science and
technology behind some of the most beloved animated films and their
characters with The Science Behind Pixar at Denver Museum
of Nature & Science. This interactive exhibition showcases
the science, technology, engineering, art, and math concepts used by
the artists and computer scientists who help bring Pixar’s
award-winning films to the big screen. With more than 50 interactive
elements, the exhibition’s eight sections each focus on a step in the
filmmaking process to give you an unparalleled view of the production
pipeline and concepts used at Pixar every day. Participate in fun,
engaging hands-on activities, listen to firsthand accounts from
members of the studio’s production teams, and even come face-to-face
with re-creations of your favorite Pixar film characters, including
Buzz Lightyear, Dory, Mike and Sulley, Edna Mode, and WALL•E.
Extreme
Sports: Beyond Human Limits, through April 12, 2020
Visitors
will be put to the test as they jump, fly, dive, climb and explore
some of the riskiest activities in the world at this Denver Museum
of Nature & Science exhibition. Physical, multimedia and
creative challenges place guests inside the minds and bodies of
extreme athletes and their passions such as wingsuit flying, ice and
rock climbing, parkour, and free diving. Amid exhilarating speeds,
breathtaking heights, and profound depths, the stories of these
passionate athletes will leave visitors inspired to push their own
personal limits.
Beer
Here! Brewing the West, through August 9, 2020
Explore
Colorado’s brewing industry from the saloons of the Gold Rush
through Prohibition to today’s booming craft beer scene at
History Colorado Center‘s Beer Here! Brewing the West.
Learn about the Centennial State’s brewing past, present and future
through historical artifacts, interactive elements and more.
Holiday
Performing Arts
Celebrate the Theater, Music and Dance in Denver
Camp
Christmas, November 21, 2019 – January 5, 2020
The
newest indoor immersive installation from Denver Center for the
Performing Arts, Camp Christmas, will feature mesmerizing
displays of decorations that shift time and reality. Performed at
Stanley Marketplace, Camp Christmas is Denver’s newest holiday
experience, where yuletide traditions of the past and present get
merrily mashed together in a massive 10,000-square-foot wonderland.
All ages are welcome at this family-friendly experience.
The
Hip Hop Nutcracker, November 23-24
Innovative
digital graffiti and visuals transform the landscape of E.T.A.
Hoffmann‘s beloved story from traditional 19th Century Germany to
the vibrant, diverse sights and sounds of contemporary New York City.
Through this re-mixed and re-imagined version of the classic,
performed at Buell Theater in the Denver Performing Arts
Complex, the dynamic performers of The Hip Hop Nutcracker take
audience members on a journey that celebrates love, community and the
magic of a New Year.
The
Nutcracker, November 30 – December 29
Children
and adults will enjoy Colorado Ballet‘s 58th annual production
of the classic Christmas ballet The Nutcracker, held at the
Ellie Caulkins Opera House and
featuring unforgettable characters, classic choreography, exquisite
sets, dazzling costumes and Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary arrangement
performed live by the Colorado Ballet
Orchestra.
Dr.
Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, December 3-8
Dr.
Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical returns
to the Buell Theatre in Denver to steal Christmas after a
blockbuster debut in 2014. More than 2.5 million theatre-goers across
America have been delighted by this heart-warming holiday musical,
featuring the hit songs “You’re A Mean One Mr. Grinch”
and “Welcome Christmas” from the original animated
TV special. Max the Dog narrates as the mean and scheming
Grinch, whose heart is “two sizes too small,” decides to
steal Christmas away from the holiday-loving Whos. Magnificent sets
and costumes inspired by Dr. Seuss’ original illustrations transport
audiences to the whimsical world of Whoville and helps remind them of
the true meaning of the holiday season.
Movie
at the Symphony: Home Alone in Concert, November 29; Love Actually
in Concert, December 6
A
holiday classic, Home Alone will feature renowned composer
John Williams‘ charming and
delightful score performed live by the Colorado Symphony at
Boettcher Concert Hall as the
film is shown on large suspended screens in Boettcher
Concert Hall. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin
McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is accidentally left
behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation, and who must
defend his home against two bungling thieves (Joe Pesci and
Daniel Stern). Hilarious and heartwarming, Home Alone
is holiday fun for the whole family.
Love
Actually is the ultimate romantic holiday comedy. Featuring an
all-star cast, the film will take audiences on a tour of love’s
delightful twists and turns. The score will be performed by the
Colorado Symphony and conductor Christopher Dragon.
Granny
Dances to a Holiday Drum, December 7-22
For
28 years, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble has been
blending dance, live music, spoken word and seasonal celebrations and
customs from around the world into a memorable holiday tradition like
no other. A Denver original, Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum
is a family favorite that inspires audiences of all ages to discover,
celebrate and honor the holiday traditions of cultures from around
the world.
Celtic
Woman: The Best of Christmas Tour, December 8
The
celestial voices of multi-platinum Irish singing group, Celtic
Woman, will be coupled with the Colorado
Symphony in Denver’s stop of The
Best of Christmas Tour. The performance at Boettcher
Concert Hall will feature music from the all-female ensemble’s
most favorite Yuletide songs.
Moscow
Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, December 13-14
The
one and only Moscow Ballet will present the Great Russian
Nutcracker at Denver’s Paramount Theatre. Featuring world
class Russian artists, hand-painted sets, Russian Snow Maidens, and
jubilant Nesting Dolls – Great Russian Nutcracker brings the
Christmas spirit to life for all ages.
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Director Jim Jarmusch and composer Carter Logan (aka avant-garde post-rock duo SQÜRL) perform live to four surrealist and dreamlike silent films by artist Man Ray. They’ll create the semi-improvisational scores onstage in Walker Cinema, with loops, synthesizers, and effected guitars that display the band’s experimental, ambient, and drone-like tendencies. Featuring Le retour à la raison (Return to Reason) (1923), Emak Bakia (1926), L’étoile de mer (The Starfish) (1928), and Les mystères du château de dé (The Mysteries of the Château de Dé) (1929). 68 min.
Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan of Sqürl, 2019. Photo courtesy Sara Driver.
SQÜRL is an enthusiastically marginal rock band from New York City who like big drums & distorted guitars, cassette recorders, loops, feedback, sad country songs, molten stoner core, chopped & screwed hip-hop, and imaginary movie scores. SQÜRL began in 2009 when Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan teamed with producer/engineer Shane Stoneback to record some original music for the film The Limits of Control.
Following these scoring sessions Jarmusch, Stoneback, and Carter continued to record new originals while also exploring the back-alleys of American country, noise, and psychedelia. In 2014, SQÜRL collaborated with Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem to compose and perform the score for the film Only Lovers Left Alive. Bridging ancient and modern sounds, the score serves as a reflection of the distinct textures of Detroit and Tangier. Following their work on Only Lovers Left Alive, Jarmusch and Logan began a new live sonic exploration: scoring four silent films by American Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray. The performance had its live debut in NYC in 2015 and SQÜRL have continue to tour with the films to this day. With their 2016 score for the film Paterson, SQÜRL dove deeper into the ocean of ambient electronic music on a quest for new ecstatic sounds to enrich the poetry of the film. The following year, the band released EP #260 on Sacred Bones Records, embracing their darker approach to density, tension, elation and release.
Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan of Sqürl. Photo courtesy the artists.
The band’s most recently released recording—the score to the The Dead Don’t Die—is a true expression of where SQÜRL stand at the center of a decade of sonic exploration. It is the culmination of their passion for analog synthesis and guitar violence. It is at once a tribute to the classic sounds of horror and sci-fi, as well as a decapitation of traditional film scores. It is naturally supernatural.
2020 will find SQÜRL back on the road and in support of their upcoming release: a tribute to the legendary cinematographer Robby Müller.
These
titles by Man Ray are also in the Walker Art Center’s Ruben/Bentson
Moving Image collection. Major support to preserve, digitize, and
present the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection is generously
provided by the Bentson Foundation.
Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) will celebrate the permanent
installation of Kehinde Wiley’s sculpture Rumors of War
on Dec. 10, at its entrance on historic Arthur Ashe
Boulevard in Richmond, Virginia. The unveiling will begin at 3:30
p.m. and is open to the public. The program will include remarks by
Kehinde Wiley; The Honorable Ralph Northam, Governor of
Virginia; The Honorable Levar Stoney, Mayor of the City of
Richmond; Alex Nyerges, VMFA’s Director and CEO; Dr.
Monroe Harris, VMFA’s President of the Board of Trustees; and
Valerie Cassel Oliver, VMFA’s Sydney and Francis Lewis
Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Sean Kelly,
founder, Sean Kelly Gallery.
Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War unveiled in New York City’s Times Square, New York on Sept. 27, 2019
The
event will begin with a performance by Richmond’s All
City High School Marching Band, featuring students from high
schools across the city, and conclude with a reception for the public
in the museum’s Cochrane Atrium, with live music and
refreshments.
First
unveiled in Times Square, New York on Sept. 27, 2019 as a partnership
between Times Square Arts, Sean Kelly Gallery and the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Rumors of War is Wiley’s
first monumental public sculpture and largest work-to-date,
continuing the artist’s career-long investigation into the politics
of representation, race, gender and power.
Mounted
proudly on its large stone pedestal, Rumors of War is the
artist’s direct response to the ubiquitous Confederate sculptures
that populate the United States, particularly in the American South.
Standing at just under three stories tall, Wiley’s sculpture
depicts a young, African American figure dressed in urban streetwear
and sitting astride a massive horse in a striking pose based on the
equestrian monument to Confederate States Army general James Ewell
Brown “J.E.B.” Stuart on Richmond’s Monument Avenue.
The
inspiration for this work came when Wiley was visiting Richmond for
the opening of his retrospective exhibition, Kehinde Wiley: A New
Republic, at VMFA in June 2016. After encountering the city’s
Confederate monuments, the artist felt compelled to extend his stay
to study and reflect upon the sculptures and their legacy. “The
story starts with going to Virginia and seeing the monuments that
line the streets,” Wiley stated at the unveiling of the work in
Times Square on September 27, 2019. “But it’s also about being
in this black body. I’m a black man walking those streets….What
does that feel like to walk a public space, and to have your state,
your country, your nation, say this is what we stand by? No. We want
more. We demand more. We creative people create more…And today we
say yes to something that looks like us. We say yes to inclusivity.
We say yes to broader notions of what it means to be an American.”
Rumors
of War encourages visitors to consider broader perspectives on
traditional narratives of heroism and representation in American
history, culture, and with national monuments. In the early 2000s,
Wiley created a series of paintings entitled Rumors of War,
which explored a repositioning of the iconography of wealth and
warfare in historical paintings. The largescale works in this series
anachronistically replaced the traditionally white, aristocratic
subjects typical of the genre with young, African American men in
street clothes.
VMFA
Director and CEO Alex Nyerges states, “The installation of
Rumors of War at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a pivotal and
historic moment for our museum, for the Commonwealth of Virginia and
for the city of Richmond. We hope that the sculpture will encourage
public engagement and civic discussion about who is memorialized in
our nation and the significance of monuments in the context of
American history. We are especially pleased that through the
acquisition of this work, the monuments in Richmond will further
reflect the incredible diversity of its population.”
Wiley
is perhaps best known for his portrait of President Barack Obama
and his vibrant portrayals of contemporary African American and
African-Diasporic individuals that subvert the hierarchies and
conventions of European and American portraiture. Seeking to
challenge the lack of representation of black and brown men and women
in our dominant visual, historical, and cultural narratives, Wiley’s
subjects have ranged from street-cast individuals that the artist
encountered while traveling around the world to many of the most
important and well-renowned African-American cultural and political
figures of our generation, including The Notorious B.I.G., LL Cool
J, Michael Jackson, Carrie Mae Weems, and President Barack Obama.
Inspired by the World’s Epic Alpine Destinations, New Concept Debuts with Dedicated Source Book Showcasing Distinctive New Collections by Acclaimed Global Designers
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RH
announced today the unveiling of RH
Ski House, a
curated concept inspired by the world’s epic alpine destinations
that presents over 60 new collections reflecting the brand’s
distinctive point of view on mountain living.
Aspen
to Sun
Valley,
Tahoe
to Taos,
Courchevel
to Cortina,
RH
Ski House
is defined by a rustic yet refined aesthetic with modern and
contemporary influences, and debuts with a dedicated print and
digital Source
Book,
which can be viewed at RHSkiHouse.com.
RH
Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman commented, “Whether you ski,
or just enjoy being in the mountains or snow, RH Ski House was
designed to make anyone feel warm, comfortable, and relaxed. It’s a
collection that is the result of curating the best people, products,
ideas, and inspiration we’ve come across, then carefully
integrating each, where the whole becomes more valuable than the
parts.”
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A
collection of furniture, lighting, textiles and décor is the result
of the brand’s creative partnerships with a select group of
internationally renowned designers. Evoking dramatic winter
snowscapes, sculptural shapes and luxe natural materials layer with
rich organic texture, warm earthen hues and stunning statement
pieces.
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The
Yeti
collectionby
Timothy
Oulton(London) introduces
bold silhouettes wrapped in sumptuous, long-haired New Zealand
sheepskin for ultimate, sink-in comfort, showcased in oversized sofas
and sectionals, as well as the
Yeti Sheepskin Armchair,
Yeti
Sheepskin Bed,
Adele
Sheepskin Dining Chair
and Oviedo
Sheepskin Chaise.
Spanning
living, dining and bedroom, The
Reclaimed
Rustic European Oak collectionbyTheo
Eichholtz(Amsterdam)
celebrates the organic beauty of solid oak timbers from decades-old
buildings with contemporary lines that allow the wood’s timeworn
character to take center stage. The Dutch designer also debuts Rigby
Reclaimed Rustic Oak–
coffee,
console
and
side tables
where unfinished, rough-sawn slabs appear to float on streamlined
metal bases.
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