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In New York City:
Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Romare Bearden Foundation
present
Paris Blues Revisited:
Romare Bearden, Albert Murray, Sam Shaw
Panel discussion:
JANUARY 21, 2012, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
with the exhibition curators; Edie Shaw, daughter of Sam Shaw; and Paul Devlin, writer and contributor to Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation (University of Alabama Press, 2010)
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Fifth Floor, Time Warner Building, Columbus Circle, NYC
Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Romare Bearden Foundation are pleased to present this exhibition as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of Bearden's birth.
Designed as a book-on-the-wall, Paris Blues Revisited presents fine reproductions of collages by Romare Bearden, writing by Albert Murray and photographs by Sam Shaw. Following the Shaw-produced film Paris Blues, these three men decided to improvise their own Paris Blues – a collaborative picture-and-writing book celebrating Paris as well as Duke Ellington, co-composer (with Billy Strayhorn) of the movie's soundtrack and Louis Armstrong, one of that movie's stars. That book was never completed. Here, for the first time, finished pages, some of them unmistakable masterworks, as well as works-in-progress make clear the power of jazz to inspire collaborations of long-lasting beauty.
Paris Blues Revisited is curated by Robert G. O’Meally, C. Daniel Dawson and Diedra Harris Kelley, and designed by Florio Design.
This exhibition is made possible by a generous gift from Janice and Bob Burns. Art© Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photos by Sam Shaw, © 1960-2011, Sam Shaw Inc., Courtesy of Shaw Family Archives Ltd. Special thanks to Albert Murray, Mozelle Murray, and Michele Murray.
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The Bearden Project now showing
The Bearden Project brings together work by contemporary artists
who have all been influenced by this twentieth-century master.
The artists in The Bearden Project work in a wide range
of media and are at different stages in their careers, but each
was given the task of creating a work of art inspired by Bearden’s
life and legacy.
In the spirit of Bearden’s ongoing impact on the art world, The Bearden Project will continue to grow. More artworks will be added through the fall/winter 2011–12 exhibition season, and select collages from the project will stay on view at the Museum through September 2, 2012.
link to site on artists here
The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10025
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JUST EXTENDED TO March 4, 2012 !!
See The Block collage on display at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Link to "A Centennial Celebration"
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Bearden the Painter
exploring works in watercolor
ESSIE GREEN GALLERIES
419A Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031
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Our traveling exhibition
From Process to Print:
Graphics Works by Romare Bearden
 The Train, 1975 hand colored etching
OPENS ON JANUARY 26, 2012
The Taft Museum of Art
January 26, 2012 - April 29, 2012
Focusing in depth on his graphic oeuvre, From Process to Print offers the unique opportunity to examine Bearden's printmaking process as he worked and re-worked familiar images and themes. Consisting of over 75 works, the exhibition includes both series and individual prints in varied print mediums; collages and photomontages that inspired some of the prints and plates; and matrixes that demonstrate the processes behind the touring works.
Considering Bearden's approach to printmaking as influenced by his collaborations with master printmakers, From Process to Print brings to light the key themes and motifs (trains, family life, rituals, urban scenes, jazz and mythology) and their role in the expansion of Bearden's artistic imagination.
The exhibition is available for tour through 2012 and is accompanied by a major publication with essays by art historians and master printmakers who worked with the artist.
The tour of this exhibition is managed by Landau Traveling Exhibitions of Los Angeles, California.
For the exhibition website click here http://www.a-r-t.com/bearden/
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IN ATLANTA: The High Museum of Art
Picasso to Warhol October 15, 2011 - April 29, 2012
Romare Bearden joins other legendary artists who redefined the very idea of art. With more than 100 world-famous works assembled exclusively for the High Museum from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
This exhibition presents approximately 100 works of art created by 14 of the most iconic artists from the 20th century: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio De Chirico, Joan Miró, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. The exhibition will be one of the largest concentrations of modern art masterpieces to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States.
The High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309
www.high.org
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