Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of November 29th

  Top Picks for Art Online Week of November 29th

Perspectives: Arthur Gamedze and Another Time Ensemble

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center / livestream

Dec. 2, 2020 / 12pm ET / free

Arthur Gamedze is a South African drummer and purveyor of "Astral Jazz," akin to the legendary free & spiritual jazz movements of the 60s (think Coltrane-- John & Alice). Another Time Ensemble features a lineup of improvisers from the city of Cario, where this rooftop performance will be taking place, a city of histories threaded together to form a past of mythic proportions. The multitude of roots buried deep within the city inspires this performance as compositions from Gamedze, and possibly poetry or other hints from other times, will weave together in a live-streamed experience of now. 

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Art and Empathy: Community Care Through Art 

Brooklyn Musuem / online talk + creation via zoom 

Dec. 3, 2020 / 2-3:30 ET / free w/registration

Yes! An art therapy session for all! I personally broke out some scissors and crayons recently out of a need for escape (and possibly control?); there is definitely value in taking your mind to another place these days....This event brings together art therapist Sarah Pousty, museum educator Dalila Scruggs, and social work intern Lula Zeray to provide a moment of self-care, reflection and coming together. A piece of art will be explored in depth followed by the opportunity to make art of one's own. This event sounds like the one big creative, collective exhale the world could use right now. 

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Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood

Hammer Museum + the UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology / online talk

Dec. 3, 2020 / 5pm PST / free w/RSVP

Author and longtime New Yorker Music Critic, Alex Ross, has a new book out Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. A 2020 New York Times Notable Book, it focuses on Richard Wagner, the highly influential 19th Century German composer who shaped so many cultural voices: painters, writers, movements-- and even film. Wagner's "leitmotif" model in his operas (think Star Wars: a recurring theme for each character or place or theme) went on to become the basis for the first film scores. Unfortunately, Wagner's legacy is also associated with another type of film, that of Nazi propaganda thanks to Hitler's love of Wagner's intense, forceful expressions..unsure where this talk will go but hopefully it will go here:

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