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TORKWASE DYSON AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST

This week, Pace Gallery’s Art Matters program features a live Instagram conversation between Torkwase Dyson and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

TORKWASE DYSON and HANS ULRICH OBRIST IN CONVERSATION

Wednesday, April 1.

2pm on the West Coast, 5 pm East Coast.

From top: Torkwase Dyson, photograph by Gabe Souza; Dyson, Plantationocene (Black Water 1919), 2019, acrylic, graphite, string, wood, ink on canvas. Images courtesy and © the artist, the photographers, and Pace Gallery. Hans Ulrich Obrist, photograph by Brigitte Lacombe, courtesy and © the photographer and subject.

TORKWASE DYSON — PLANTATIONOCENE, ACT II

Deja Smith, Arthur Jafa, and Gaika are featured in I SEE YOU ACROSS THAT WATER—Act II of Torkwase Dyson’s performance-sculptural piece I CAN DRINK THE DISTANCE: PLANTATIONOCENE IN TWO ACTS—co-presented this week by Performa and Pace as part of the gallery’s inaugural Pace Live program.

I SEE YOU ACROSS THAT WATER

Friday, November 22, at 8 pm.

Pace Live

540 West 25th Street, seventh floor, New York City.

Torkwase Dyson, I Can Drink the Distance: Plantationocene in Two Acts, 2019, performance and installation images (top and below) courtesy and © the artists, the photographer, and Pace. Torkwase Dyson, Nautical Disk, 2018, photographs (portrait of Dyson, second from top, and installation and performance, above) by Gabe Souza. Images courtesy and © the artists, the photographer, and the Colby Museum of Art and Lunder Institute.

PEGGY COOPER CAFRITZ

Peggy Cooper Cafritz—the Washington, D.C., collector of African-American art, salonist, activist, fundraiser, co-founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and just-published author—died last week in the capital.

Her 2018 book FIRED UP! READY TO GO!—FINDING BEAUTY, DEMANDING EQUITY brings together images of more than 200 works of art that were lost in a 2009 house fire, as well as the art Cooper Cafritz had collected in the years since the catastrophe.

The Cooper Cafritz collection includes pieces by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Alma Thomas, Norman Lewis, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, El Anatsui, Yinka Shonibare, Nick Cave, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae WeemsNoah Davis, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Titus KapharNjideka Akunyili Crosby, and Toyin Ojih Odutola.

PEGGY COOPER CAFRITZ, FIRED UP! READY TO GO!—FINDING BEAUTY, DEMANDING EQUITY: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN ART, THE COLLECTIONS OF PEGGY COOPER CAFRITZ (New York: Rizzoli , 2018).

Contributors to the book’s text include Thelma Golden, Simone Leigh, Uri McMillan, Jack ShainmanTschabalala Self.

From top: Torkwase Dyson, Strange Fruit (Blue Note), 2015, acrylic on board; Romare Bearden, Prince Cinque (Maquette), 1976, felt pen with watercolor and collage on graph paper; Jas Knight, Autumn, 2015, oil on linen; Loren Holland, The Messenger, 2005, oil on paper; Noah Davis, Black Widow, 2007, acrylic and gouache on canvas; Nina Chanel Abney, Untitled, 2012. All images © the artists, courtesy the Estate of Peggy Cooper Cafritz, and Rizzoli.