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Events ArchiveDATE 11/8/2024 Kaleidoscopic and dynamic, Orphism comes to the GuggenheimDATE 11/1/2024 Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!DATE 10/31/2024 Halloween readingDATE 10/27/2024 Denim deep diveDATE 10/26/2024 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object High Point, 2024DATE 10/24/2024 Photorealism lives!DATE 10/21/2024 The must-have monograph on Yoshitomo NaraDATE 10/20/2024 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love' opens at Philadelphia Museum of ArtDATE 10/17/2024 ‘Indigenous Histories’ is Back in Stock!DATE 10/16/2024 192 Books presents Glenn Ligon and James Hoff on 'Distinguishing Piss from Rain'DATE 10/15/2024 ‘Cyberpunk’ opens at the Academy Museum of Motion PicturesDATE 10/14/2024 Celebrate Indigenous artists across the spectrumDATE 10/10/2024 Textile as language in 'Sheila Hicks: Radical Vertical Inquiries' | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 11/8/2024 Kaleidoscopic and dynamic, Orphism comes to the GuggenheimScience, technology, artistic freedom! Ah, the optimism and unfettered exploration of the Belle Époque. Then: the devastation of the 1918 influenza epidemic, followed by the First World War. In November 2024, the Guggenheim Museum opens Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930, the first in-depth examination of this avant-garde movement whose name, borrowed from the Greek poet-hero Orpheus, was coined in 1912 by French literary giant Guillaume Apollinaire. “‘Orphism’ referred to the kaleidoscopic and dynamic paintings produced by a constellation of transnational artists exploring the boundaries of representation to convey their experiences of modern life,” Guggenheim senior curator Tracey Bashkoff writes. “Artists connected to Orphism engaged with ideas of simultaneity—which they equated with modernity—creating compositions that often capture motion, encompass disks of vibrant color, and evoke multisensory responses. Situated among vanguard movements of the period such as Cubism and Futurism, Orphism pushed further into modes of abstract expression, whereas these other idioms remained invested in figurative content. … To invoke [František] Kupka, Orphism is an amorphous concept. Apollinaire invented the term to describe an abstracted pictorial idiom, but he did so by specifically conjuring the ultimate bard, the mythological Orpheus. In doing so, he productively allied painting, poetry and music with one another—and with modernity itself.” Featured spreads show work by František Kupka, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Gino Severini and Mainie Jellett. DATE 10/31/2024 Halloween readingHorror fans, rejoice. Jordan Peele’s Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay is out now from Inventory Press. The companion to Peele’s complete annotated screenplay for Get Out, this indispensable guide to Us adds alternate endings, deleted scenes, stills from the film and annotations by hannah baer, Theaster Gates, Jamieson Webster, Jared Sexton, Mary Ping, Shana Redmond and Leila Taylor. Annotating a scene featuring Lupita Nyong’o as Red, Webster digs into Freud and his concept of the uncanny. In part: “Looking at the word uncanny or unheimlich etymologically, Freud sees that it is created from heim (which means home or familiarity), but not in the sense of opposites of feeling at home/not feeling at home, but rather as one derived from the other, meaning that what is uncanny was once familiar, what we felt at home with, which has now become its Other, alien. … Importantly, there is new interest in the uncanny which seems to follow on renewed interest in the intergenerational transmission of trauma, in unconscious omnipotence, forms of radical alienation, questions about the limits of knowledge, and new forms of unconscious guilt and masochism. This has, of course, been important in colonial histories and the transmission of historical violence and omnipotent fantasies of generations past, and how these keep reappearing again and again. Stopping this intergenerational repetition of violence might mean having to confront what is the most uncanny in day-to-day life, hiding in plain sight.” DATE 10/27/2024 Denim deep diveThis 1926 advertisement for Levi Strauss’ original copper riveted waist overalls is reproduced from Reel Art Press new-release Denim: The Fabric That Built America, 1935–1944—a pure fashion history resource collecting more than 200 photographs of unself-conscious Americans living and working in their well-worn Depression-era denim. Culled from FDR’s Farm Security Administration archive of more than 170,000 photographs by such notable documentarians as Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano and Russell Lee, alongside many unknown names and anonymous contributions, this is a true denim deep dive. The story of Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, “the godfathers of denim workwear,” is covered, alongside photographs of farmers, share croppers, train conductors, factory workers, mechanics and much more. “This book was an exciting—and enormous—undertaking, searching through hundreds of thousands of images into the hidden depths of the archive to unearth priceless denim gems,” Tony Nourmand writes. “The photographs were taken by some of America’s foremost photographers and each portrait, expression and movement is framed with the eye of a master. In this context, the detail of the denim—heft of the weave; fraying chore jacket layered over chambray shirt; patched overalls; white stitching contrasting against blue; metal rivets on rolled up jeans above steel-capped boots—is seen as startlingly modern.” |
