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The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine Winter/Spring 2011 The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine WINTER/SPRING 2011 STUDIO MAGAZINE Editor-in-chief BOARD OF TRUSTEES This issue of Studio is underwritten, Elizabeth Gwinn Chairman in part, with support from Bloomberg Raymond J. McGuire Creative Director Thelma Golden Vice-Chair The Studio Museum in Harlem is Carol Sutton Lewis supported, in part, with public funds Managing Editor provided by the following government agencies and elected representatives: Allison Channing Jones Treasurer The New York City Department of Rodney M. Miller Cultural Affairs; Assemblyman Keith L. Associate Editor T. Wright, 70th A.D.; New York State Dominic Hackley Secretary Council on the Arts, a state agency; Teri Trotter Institute of Museum and Library Editor-at-Large Services; National Endowment for the Arts; The City of New York; Council Lea K. Green Jacqueline L. Bradley Member Inez E. Dickens, 9th C.D. and Valentino D. Carlotti Speaker Christine Quinn and the New Contributing Editors Kathryn C. Chenault York City Council. Lauren Haynes Joan Davidson Thomas J. Lax Gordon J. Davis The Studio Museum in Harlem is deeply grateful to the following Reginald E. Davis institutional donors for their Fiction Editor Susan Fales-Hill leadership support: Ginger Cofield Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Bloomberg Sandra Grymes Deutsche Bank Copy Editors Joyce K. Haupt Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ford Foundation Jessica Lott, Samir Patel Arthur J. Humphrey, Jr. The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation George L. Knox The Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Editorial Intern Nancy L. Lane Charitable Trust Shahrazad A. Shareef Dr. Michael L. Lomax Robert Lehman Foundation Tracy Maitland Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Design MetLife Foundation Dr. Amelia Ogunlesi Nimoy Foundation Emily CM Anderson Corine Pettey Target for Project Projects Ann Tenenbaum Upper Manhattan Empowerment John T. Thompson Zone Development Corporation Printing Reginald Van Lee The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation Mirror NYC Joyce and George Wein Foundation The Winston Foundation mirrornyc.com ex-offico Original Design Concept Hon. Kate D. Levin 2x4, Inc. ex-officio Studio is published two times Karen A. Phillips a year by The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027. Copyright © 2011 Studio Magazine. All rights, including translation into other languages, are reserved by the publisher. Nothing in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. MUSEUM feature What’S Up: Exhibition SchEdUle 5 global africa: a conversation catalogue ExcErpt: with Dr. lowery stokes sims 50 LynEttE yiadoM-boakye 6 abDi on the rise 54 StEphEn BurkS: Man Made 8 in conversation: in convErSation: Mark bradford 2010-11 artists in resiDence 58 and thElMa goldEn 10 excerpt: harlem: BenjaMin pattErSon: born in a century in images 62 thE StatE of flUx/us: Scores 12 excerpt: re:collection 67 vidEoStUdio: changing Same 14 thE prodUction of Space 16 collEctEd. black & White 17 harlem, USa: thEn and noW 18 UntitlEd (LevEl): lesliE hewitt in collaboration With Bradford yoUng 20 stuDio fiction: come sunDay by amina gautier 68 fellow to fellow 72 harlem poStcardS fall/WintEr 2010-11 22 public program highlights 74 StUdioSoUnd: Matana robErts 25 STUDIO Junior! Beyond DIY art activity: imaginary portrait! 76 OFF/SITE: xaviEra Simmons 29 coloring page by abDi farah 78 StUdio lab: introdUction 30 StUdio (Un)framed 31 frienDs the Joyce alexanDer wein artist prize 81 gala 2010 82 supporters 86 members 89 ElsewhErE: art bEyond ThE StUdio Museum 32 in thE StUdio: viSitS With dinEo Seshee BopapE, narcissiStEr, pamela PhatSiMo SUnStrum 36 member spotlight: kenneth montague 92 dancE q&a: trajal harrEll 40 Join us!/membership form 94 RemembEring EvElyn CunninghaM general info/member shopping Days 96 and MargarEt BurroUghs 42 StUdio blog Spotlight 44 book picks 45 ExcErpt: harlem iS noWhEre 46 2 stI uD o — WInTEr / SPrInG Harell, along with several artists and museum staff. We’re also making some exciting forays into the digital conversation, improving our on-site visitor experience with electronic signage and information kiosks, ramping up our social media efforts (you can now find us on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and more!) and utilizing the new Studio During my tenure at the Studio Blog to communicate the latest Museum we’ve made several happenings in the world of art exciting forays into the field and culture. Even I’m blogging! of architecture, notably with Check it out at studiomuseum.org/ harlemworld: Metropolis as studio-blog. While our expanded Metaphor (2004) and David Adjaye: Thursday and Friday evening Making Public Buildings (2007). hours make it more convenient Architecture and art are deeply to visit the Museum on your own intertwined, and these projects schedule, the depth of information have been a wonderful addition on the web means you can access to our exhibition program. I am so Studio Museum programs 24/7. pleased that with Stephen Burks: These are just a few of the ways Man Made we are expanding into we are committed to making the the world of design as well. Museum an accessible, enjoyable While I am eagerly anticipating and educational space for all. what is sure to be a beautiful Whether at a family workshop on exhibition, Stephen Burks will be Target Free Sunday or at a Friday the first to tell you that design night tour, I look forward to seeing is not just about making good- you around, and definitely uptown! looking objects. Instead, design is a way to solve problems. Burks’s T HELMA GoLDEn approach to problem solving DIrECTor AnD CHIEF CurATor embraces not only the potential for an object to address a specific concern, but for design as a whole to have a role in positive social change. Much of his work involves sustainability, collaboration and economic development in countries ranging from Peru to Senegal. Speaking with artists about their work is one of my favorite parts of my job, and so I am thrilled that this issue of Studio features a number of conversations. I had the great pleasure of conversing with Mark Bradford about his Alphabet. You’ll also find interviews with Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, dancer Trajal Thelma’s Photo: Timothy Greenfield- Sanders Studio Highlights Winter/Spring 2011 STephen BurkS: Man Made 8 In ConverSation: Mark Bradford and ThelMa Golden 10 dawoud Bey’S harleM, uSa: Then and now 18 4 stI uD o — WInTEr / SPrInG ReceA nT CquISITIon Mequitta Ahuja World, 2010 Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee 10.17.4 ME uS uM 5 whatu ’S P EXH n IBITIo SCHEDuLE NOEMBEV r 11, 2010 – MArCH 31, 2011 – WInTEr / SPrInG 2011 MArCH 13, 2011 JunE 26, 2011 LYnETTE YIADoM-BoAKYE: STEPHEn BurKS: Man Made Any number of Preoccupations BE nJAMIn PATTErSon: Check studiomuseum.org In the State of FLuX/us: Scores for the latest on our MArK BrADForD: Alphabet VIDET oS uDIo: Playback exhibitions and programs VIDEoSTuDIo: Changing Same SC uLPTED, ETCHED AnD CuT: THEo Pr DuCTIon oF SPACE Metal Works from the Permanent Collection DAWouD BEY’S HArLEM, uSA C oLLECTED. Vignettes unTITLED (LEVEL) ALWAYS on VIEW CoLLECTED. HArLEM PoSTCArDS Benjamin Patterson BLACK & WHITE GLEnn LIGon: String Music, 1960 Give us a Poem Collection ADAM PEnDLETon: Getty Research Institute, Collected (Flamingo George) Los Angeles STuDIoSounD 6 stI uD o — WInTEr / SPrInG L YYnETTE IADoM-BoAKYE: AnY nuMBEr oF PrEoCCuPATIonS / on VIEW noVEMBEr 11, 2010–MArCH 13, 2011 E TXCErP It is clear from the size and style departure has created a vacancy in Lynette of their country mansion that the Hecuba's bed which Carl is happy Yiadom-Boakye TrEATMEnT For Sympathies Bromley-rutherfords are not short to occupy. Elsewhere, 2007 A LoW-BuDGET of money. old English money. Moreover, this is not the first Courtesy Elizabeth Witten TELEVISIon The best kind, as it only ever runs time that Carl has married for out when the family is headed by money. And he is a seasoned Horror WITH the blackest of sheep: a gambler, professional when it comes to THE WorKInG whoremonger or lover of finery charming future in-laws. This is and fast cars who squanders every what he must do tonight. And TITLE: “DInnEr penny on bad investments and fast as he stands outside the country WITH JEFFrEY” living. Thankfully this has mansion, he imagines that this will not yet happened. be an enjoyable evening. Carl is hoping to change He lifts and drops the large The following is an excerpt from all that. A hedonistic ne'er-do- lion-head doorknocker twice and a short story, “Treatment for a well, he has recently made the waits. Low-Budget Television Horror acquaintance of a Miss Hecuba A weary old butler opens the with the Working Title: ‘Dinner Bromley-rutherford, daughter and door, smiles weakly and beckons with Jeffrey’,” written by Lynette only child of the right Honourable him in. Yiadom-Boakye for the exhibition Jeremy Bromley-rutherford, and The house is every bit catalogue Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: heiress to the Bromley-rutherford as grand on the inside as it is on Any number of Preoccupations. banking empire. She is in her the outside. Paintings, sculptures Although she is a visual artist, mid-twenties, clean and healthy and antique furniture spanning writing is an important part looking, although not as beautiful centuries line the entrance hall. of Yiadom-Boakye’s creative as the word “heiress” normally Carl begins to salivate. He adores practice. It allows for what Studio suggests. She has a robust and money. Museum Associate Curator (and muscular sort of face, handsome, The right Honourable Jeremy the organizer of Any number of with large white teeth—not unlike Bromley-rutherford (something Preoccupations) naomi Beckwith an Arabian thoroughbred horse. of an antique himself) is holding identifies as Yiadom-Boakye’s Carl does not know a great deal court in the drawing room.
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