We Face Forward is a season of contemporary art and music from West Africa, celebrated across Manchester’s galleries, museums, music venues and public spaces from 2 June to 16 September as part of London 2012 Festival. It is the first major collaboration between Manchester City Galleries and Whitworth Art Gallery.
http://shop.manchestergalleries.org/we-face-forward-exhibition-catalogue.html
http://www.cornerhouse.org/bookstore/product/we-face-forward-art-from-west-africa-today
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Migrations Tate Britain 31 January – 12 August 2012
This exhibition explores British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in search of new patrons, through moments of political and religious unrest, to Britain’s current position within the global landscape, the exhibition will reveal how British art has been fundamentally shaped by successive waves of migration. Cutting a swathe through 500 years of history, and tracing not only the movement of artists but also the circulation of visual languages and ideas, this exhibition will include works by artists from Lely, Kneller, Kauffman to Sargent, Epstein, Mondrian, Bomberg, Bowling and the Black Audio Film Collective as well as recent work by contemporary artists.
Guardian Review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/26/tate-britain-migrations-art-identity
Tate Britain Migrations in pictures.
Art Desk Migrations
http://www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/migrations-journeys-british-art-tate-britain
Between the two my Heart is Balanced 1991
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artimageslibrary/6802961799/
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Cotton: Global Threads
Independent – Photo gallery
Review
Although most of us put cotton against our skin almost everyday, in the form of socks and T-shirts, the story of cotton is far from everyday, which is why it has been turned into an extensive exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Cotton: Global Threads, which opens tomorrow, gives a global history of the production, consumption and trade in cotton, featuring pieces from the Middle Ages to the present day. New commissions by contemporary artists, including Yinka Shonibare and Lubaina Himid, will hang alongside the gallery’s permanent textile collection.
Click here or on “View Gallery” for a picture preview
“Cotton is the best-selling and most widely used fibre in the world. Its manufacture has exposed both the promise and the perils of global capitalism, and no other industry is so closely associated with the exploitation of human labour – from the slave plantations of the US and Marx and Engels’ ‘satanic mills’ of Lancashire to the garment factories of South China today,” curator Jennifer Harris said.
“We want to use this exhibition to tell its important story, not only from an artistic perspective, but also economically and ethically.”
From 11 February to 13 May 2012
http://cottonglobalthreads.com/artist/lubaina-himid/
http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/cotton/
http://cottonglobalthreads.com/lubaina-himid-thin-black-lines/
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/craft/textiles/art376634
www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth
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Eyeonart Blog spot Thin Black Line(s) Tate Britain
http://eyonart.blogspot.com/2011/08/tate-britain-highlights-legacy-of-black.html
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Northern Art Prize
http://www.creativetimes.co.uk/articles/review-northern-art-prize
http://www.northernartprize.org.uk/ourblog/lubaina-himid-in-conversation
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Wasafiri
Interview with Lubaina Himid
http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=112
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