I love being back at NYU, because there is always something amazing going on, well besides finals and the cost {smile}. There is an art exhibit at the Grey Art Gallery entitled "The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art, which I plan on attending soon. It will be at the gallery until December 6th, you can get more info here. Partial press-release below and a review by the NY Times here. There is also a similar exhibit at the MET until March 22nd.
There are some really amazing photographers on display like Malick Sidibé, Seydou Keïta, and the loveliness of photographer Nnontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko. Some of her work is below. She was doing "street style" photography in Johannesburg long before it became a trend. The images below are between 2003-2007, from her "Beauty is in the Eyes of a Beholder" series, which you can see more of here.
Fotos via AfroNova.
The exhibition presents some 60 contemporary paintings, sculptures, videos, and photographs by artists living in Africa and abroad alongside a selection of mid- 20th-century and recent African textiles. The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art, which will be on view at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery from September 16 through December 6, 2008, illuminates the connections and continuities between past and recent modes of African artistic expression. The exhibition also draws attention to vital and often exuberant African textile traditions which have too often been relegated to the long shadows cast by classical African sculpture.
Some of the African textiles on display.
Fotos via NY Times.
Beijos.
