ArtBabble: Thornton Dial

Hard Truth: (S)he Speaks Volumes

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:12:07 +0000

Institution:

Hard Truth: (S)he Speaks Volumes is the life's work of critically acclaimed artist Thornton Dial, interpreted by internationally renowned poets, Januarie York, M'reld Green, Georgia Me, and Tasha Jones. With elegance and audacity, these poets examine the challenges and beauty of America, brilliantly expressed through the hands of Thornton Dial. Witness these poets making bold new verbal art from Dial’s dauntless visual art, brought to life from the museum walls.

Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:40:01 +0000

Series:

Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Join Chicago-based installation artist Theaster Gates and his ensemble, The Black Monks of Mississippi, for a performative response to the visual art of Thornton Dial. Inspired by the rich symbolic world of the black South, Dial’s art explores the hard truths of history and political and social issues. In this performance, Gates and The Black Monks improvise to create “black sound,” born of the power of gospel.

Franklin Sirmans, Shadow and Act

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:40:18 +0000

Series:

Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Using the art and life of Thornton Dial as a point of departure, this public forum, held on April 8, 2011, explored the status of African American artists within the mainstream contemporary art world, an examination that reflects broader social, economic, and political “hard truths” within society at large.

Theaster Gates, The Redemptive and the Redeemed

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:35:57 +0000

Series:

Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Theaster Gates is an Installation and performance artist from the University of Chicago.

Other forum speakers included:
Joanne Cubbs- Introduction
Greg Tate
Fred Moten

Julian Bond, From Civil War to Civil Rights

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:30:57 +0000

Series:

Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Julian Bond is a civil rights leader, former Georgia state legislator, and former Chairman of the NAACP.

Other forum speakers included:
Joanne Cubbs- Introduction
Greg Tate

Fred Moten, An Ecology of (Eloquent) Things

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:15:38 +0000

Series:

Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Fred Moten is a writer and Associate Professor of English at Duke University.

Other forum speakers included:
Joanne Cubbs- Introduction
Greg Tate
Julian Bond

Greg Tate, Neo-Hoodoo Imaginations And Hollering Bebop Ghosts In The Southern Black Visionary Tradition

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:10:12 +0000

Series:

Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Greg Tate is a cultural critic and musician.

Other forum speakers included:
Joanne Cubbs- Introduction
Fred Moten
Julian Bond
Theaster Gates
Franklin Sirmans

Joanne Cubbs, Outside/In: The Art of Thornton Dial

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:13:29 +0000

Series:

Hard Truths: A Forum on Art and the Politics of Difference

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Joanne Cubbs is the Curator of the Hard Truths exhibition, and an IMA Adjunct Curator of American Art.

Other forum speakers included:
Greg Tate
Fred Moten
Julian Bond

Thornton Dial's Materials

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:29:42 +0000

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial highlights the artist’s significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how Dial’s work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time—including the war in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition presents 70 of Dial’s large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 works on view for the first time. Spanning twenty years of his work as an artist, it is the most extensive showing of his art ever mounted.

Photographing Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:17:16 +0000

Series:

Thornton Dial: Hard Truths

Institution:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial highlights the artist's significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how Dial's work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time—including the war in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition presents 70 of Dial's large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 works on view for the first time. Spanning twenty years of his work as an artist, it is the most extensive showing of his art ever mounted.