Tag: The Walker Art Center

• The Ghost in the Machine: Mark Bradford & Robert Glasper Combine Creative Forces

  Art and music collide in a beautifully explosive Steinway & Sons collaboration that showcases the Spirio piano in a new light. The Steinway Commission pairs visual artists with Steinway musicians to create unique works of art that reflect their collaborative vision and process.  This three year project makes its debut with a Steinway Spirio piano that…

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  April 8, 2016

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, black history, Collecting, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museums, Music, new york, Photography, Uncategorized

  Auction, Christie’s, Harlem, Jazz, Mark Bradford, MOCA, Robert Glasper, The Studio Museum, The Walker Art Center, Thelma Golden, UFO-Space

• Artist a Day Challenge No. 13: Performance Art

  Admittedly, one area of conceptual contemporary art that I infrequently explore and struggle to comment on is Performance Art.  In 2014 the Walker Art Center curated a performance art exhibition that showcases black artists and their contributions to this unique creative medium. Radical Performance was the first large-scale retrospective of its kind. Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver…

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  February 14, 2015

  Art, black history, Contemporary Art

  performance art, The Walker Art Center, Valerie Cassel Oliver