Artadia And 21c Museum Hotels Announce New $10,000 Award
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 16, 2021
21c Museum Hotels, a multi-venue contemporary art museum and award-winning hospitality company, and Artadia, a nonprofit grantmaker and nationwide community of visual artists, curators, and patrons, have announced their collaboration on the inaugural 21c Artadia Award.
21c Museum Durham And North Carolina Museum Of Art Collaborate On Major Solo Exhibition Of Wim Botha
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 17, 2018
In April 2019, 21c Museum Durham and the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) in Raleigh will present South African artist Wim Botha's first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent. Featuring works that span Botha's career, the cross-institutional exhibition will provide visitors with varied experiences of the artist's work and a new site-specific installation at each venue. Co-curated by 21c Chief Curator and Museum Director Alice Gray Stites and NCMA Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Jennifer Dasal, Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent examines Botha's multimedia practice and his use of diverse materials to question and subvert aesthetic conventions of power and value.
21c Lexington Opens Exhibition Featuring Artists Carrie Mae Weems, Deanna Lawson, Anthony Goicolea And More
by Stephi Wild - Jul 31, 2018
21c Museum will present OFF-SPRING: New Generations, a group exhibition opening at 21c Lexington on August 4. Featuring 37 artists, the exhibition explores the development of personal and group identity through religious, cultural, institutional, and domestic rituals. To mark the opening of the exhibition, 21c Lexington will host a reception on August 4 from 6 - 9 p.m. with remarks by 21c Chief Curator and Museum Director Alice Gray Stites, and a special presentation by and artist Stacey Steers, whose work is featured in OFF-SPRING. This event is free and open to the public.
21c Oklahoma City Presents 'Pop Stars! Popular Culture And Contemporary Art'
by Stephi Wild - Apr 17, 2018
Opening on Thursday, April 26 with a special lecture by featured artist Fahamu Pecou, Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art demonstrates the dominance of the popular as today's ubiquitous culture and illuminates the intersection of the sacred and the secular in multimedia depictions of who and what we worship today.
'Dress Up, Speak Up' Exhibition Explores Costuming, Iconography, And Performance
by Stephi Wild - Mar 14, 2018
21c Museum Hotels has announced a major multimedia exhibition exploring the role of costuming, iconography, and performance in constructing Identity and confronting history. With over 35 participating artists representing 22 nationalities, Dress Up, Speak Up delivers a global investigation of these concepts, while reconfiguring, reimagining, and reconstituting history to explore the legacy of European colonialism.