"In Praise of Shadow Boxers, Dissonance & Dissidents: A Pop-Up Tribute Exhibition to Greg Tate," showcases six-foot prints by 24 artists influenced by Tate, a prolific cultural critic, writer, and musician.
Visit Photoville.com to view the web presentation, which also features works by Cauleen Smith (@cauleen_smith) and Jules Arthur (@julesarthur_arts); Link in the bio.
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◼︎ These Photoville Pop-up exhibits are Curated by the Tate Family, and will also be on view at 6PM Sunday followed by a 7:30PM Summer for the City event at Lincoln Center (@lincolncenter), "Celebrating Greg Tate: More Than Posthuman: Rise of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra Mojosexual Cotillion," (@burntsugararkestra).
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◼︎ Sunday's honoring of Greg Tate is a free, first-come event at Damrosch Park at Amsterdam Avenue and West 62nd Street (inside Lincoln Center).
◼︎ Check Lincoln Center's Summer for the Series webpage at Lincolncenter.org for more on Sunday's event.
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◼︎ Tate, who died last December, co-founded Black Rock Coalition, a national nonprofit dedicated to the creative freedom of Black artists; he created Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, "an outrageously accomplished improv collective."
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◼︎ Featured artists: Aisha Tandiwe Bell (@superblakwoman), Amy Touchette (@amy_touchette), Arthur Jafa (@anamibia), B+, Barron Claiborne (@barronclaiborne), Carrie Mae Weems (@carriemaeweems), Dawoud Bey (@dawoudbey), Dread Scott (@dreadscottart), Ellen Gallagher (@
ellen.galla.art), Fab 5 Freddy (@fab5freddy), Futura, Krista Franklin (@therealkrista), Lee Quiñones (@leequinones), Ming Smith (@mingsmithphoto), Nettrice R. Gaskins (@
nettiebeatrice), Petra Richterová(@petrarichterovaphotography), Radcliffe Bailey (@radcliffebaileyjr), Robert Pruitt (@robertpruitt), Ronda Brown (@rondabtheheartis), Sanford Biggers (@sanfordbiggers), Satch Hoyt (@satch_hoyt), Simone Leigh (@simoneyvetteleigh), Vernon Reid (@vurnt22), and Wangechi Mutu (@wangechistudio).