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calendar Noteworthy cultural events

Today is 10/06/2008

06/10/2007 - 11/21/2007 www.labiennale.org/en/
Venice Biennale
The formal Biennale is based at a park the Giardini that houses 30 permanent national pavilions. The assignment of the permanent pavilions was largely dictated by the international politics of the 1930s and the Cold War. As a result a number of nationalities are represented who do not have a strong visual arts tradition. There is no single format to how each country manages their pavilion though in most cases they are dedicated to a presentation of a single artists work. The pavilion for Great Britain is always managed by the British Council while the United States assigns the responsibility to a public gallery. The Giardini includes a large exhibition hall that houses a themed exhibition curated by the Biennale's director.
Venice
Venice . Italy

08/25/2006 - 11/26/2006 www.lbma.org
Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
This exhibition looks critically at images made of and by African Americans and the role those images have played in fostering racial identity during a period of radical social change. In its exclusive west coast presentation, Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century features approximately 70 works in all media, including paintings, photographs, silhouette profiles, book frontispieces and popular prints. Curated by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African American Studies at Harvard University, the exhibition looks critically at images of, and in many cases by, African Americans. Featured artists include Joshua Johnston, Ethan Allen Greenwood, William Matthew Prior, Moses Williams, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Gilbert Stuart, Raphaelle Peale and Susan Sedgewick, among many others.
Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach California

06/17/2006 - 10/22/2006 www.museumofglass.org
Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scott
This 30-year retrospective of 60 works created since 1970 includes sculpture, jewelry, prints, and textiles as well as videos and photographs of Scott's performance and installation work, making for an excellent overview of her varied and potent artistic career. Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scott is a visually dazzling and intellectually challenging retrospective of the work of an important American artist.
Museum of Glass
Tacoma Washington

09/8/2006 - 12/03/2006 http://www.pafa.org/exhibit.jsp
Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment
Throughout her career, Betye Saar has made art that challenges us to think about our societal responses to race and to the history of race in the United States. Though politically trenchant, Saar's work moves beyond protest to encompass a profound spirituality and an awareness of the things that link human beings across cultural lines and across time. This exhibition examines Saar's achievement by focusing on her work with photography, specifically, her incorporation of photographic fragments as a metaphor for her view of the African American experience and of lives too often obscured in American visual history.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Pennsylvania

09/15/2006 - 12/09/2006 www.hamptonu.edu]museum
Harlem: The Vision of Morgan and Marvin Smith
Organized by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black CuIture, the exhibition, Harlem: The Vision of Morgan andMarvin Smith surveys the lives, art and work of Harlem's premiere twin photographers. Featuring photographs taken by Morgan and Marvin Smith, the exhibition serves as a reminder of what these photographers viewed as the best Harlem bad to offer from the 1930s through the 1950s. Artwork by Romare Bearden collected by Marvin Smith wiil also be a part of the exhibition.
Hampton University Museum
Hampton Virginia

10/01/2006 - 12/15/2006 www.cau.edu
Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection
Exhibition of one of the country's largest and most important collections of prints by African American artists.
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta Georgia

09/14/2006 - 12/15/2006 www.spelman.edu/museum/current.shtml
RECOGNIZE: The Spelman College Department of Art Faculty Exhibition
The Spelman College Art Faculty Exhibition features recent work by Charnelle Holloway, Arturo Lindsay, Frank Toby Martin, M. Akua McDaniel, Lev Mills and Barbara Nesin. Their art has been widely exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Working in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, graphic design and photography, through their art they examine a host of overlapping themes including spirituality, memory, Diasporic continuity, aesthetic retentions, the passing of time, faith, beauty, knowledge, difference, gender inequities and the betterment of society.
Cosby Center, Spelman College
Atlanta Georgia