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Roving Eye: Into Africa
Traveling in Africa for two weeks, I am visiting local partners of smARTpower, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State that pairs American artists with their counterparts abroad. As of 2011, the Bronx Museum of the Arts is sending 17 artists to 15 countries to engage in what I call "people-to-people diplomacy." smARTpower is the State Department's first major initiative to send visual artists and their work into international communities. Click here to learn more.
The goal of this tour is to visit four of our smARTpower locations—Accra, Ghana; Lagos and Ibadan in Nigeria; and Nairobi, Kenya. A key component of smARTpower is working with U.S. embassies and teaming up American artists with local arts organizations and communities.
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Roving Eye: A Walk on the Wild Side
I live downtown, and on the weekends my favorite pastime is to see art on the Lower East Side. For me, meandering is also often a trip down memory lane. I have a history in New York City, particularly this neighborhood. In the early 1900s, my great-grandfather owned a vegetable stand between two buildings at Houston and Second Avenue, where he sold fruit and vegetables. I was always told that he catered to the ladies. His was one of the few covered spaces protecting young mothers, who could pull their baby carriages into the store when the weather was bad. I wonder what he would think of the LES today.
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Roving Eye: Juan Downey Returns to New York
Last week, pioneering video artist Juan Downey's work finally arrived at the Bronx Museum from Tempe, where it had been on view at the Arizona State University Art Museum. It's the first museum survey in America of the Chilean-born artist (1940–1993). It took over two years of planning for the 100 works in his exhibition "The Invisible Architect" to make it here [where they are on view through May 20], after Arizona and the MIT List Art Center in Cambridge, Mass. A 27-foot trailer rolled up in front of our museum and parked there for two days, with some 11 wooden crates and pallets, 17 pedestals and four vitrines, and 30 monitors and DVD players, all taking over two hours to unload. The crates sat for 48 hours, acclimatizing to the galleries, a natural part of the process when art travels. Now that it's all unpacked several days later, we are installing the exhibition.
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Oil on Canvas, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
The colorful, phantasmagorical canvases of Jakub Julian Ziolkowski are full of imaginar
