The Herb Alpert Foundation has announced the winners of its 30th annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, which recognizes mid-career artists in the fields of dance, music, film/video, theater and visual arts.
In all, there are 10 winners for 2024, each of whom will receive a $75,000 unrestricted prize as well as a residency at CalArts (which administers the prize on behalf of the Herb Alpert Foundation). The winners are chosen by a group of 15 distinguished panelists and are nominated by another group of respected names in the arts.
According to Irene Borger, the director of the Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts, what stands out among 2024’s cohort is how many winners work across genres and mediums.
“Over the years things have gotten more and more hybrid, so that even though there are these five categories, these five genres, one of the choreographers is coming out with a book, one of the filmmakers makes sculpture,...
In all, there are 10 winners for 2024, each of whom will receive a $75,000 unrestricted prize as well as a residency at CalArts (which administers the prize on behalf of the Herb Alpert Foundation). The winners are chosen by a group of 15 distinguished panelists and are nominated by another group of respected names in the arts.
According to Irene Borger, the director of the Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts, what stands out among 2024’s cohort is how many winners work across genres and mediums.
“Over the years things have gotten more and more hybrid, so that even though there are these five categories, these five genres, one of the choreographers is coming out with a book, one of the filmmakers makes sculpture,...
- 5/1/2024
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From Garrett Bradley: Devotion, published by MIT Press. In this interview from 2019, the art historian Huey Copeland speaks with the artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley on the occasion of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston exhibition Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody. This text first appeared in the exhibition catalogue.America.Huey Copeland: I’d like to begin by talking about the ways you’re engaging the archive in your work, recruiting a range of different materials, even outtakes from your own films. Your process—mixing and working on different projects simultaneously—seems to resonate with but also exceed what scholar Saidiya Hartman calls “critical fabulation” in terms of posing the question, “How do we return to and engage the archive in order to reframe it with all of its liabilities and possibilities”?1 In this sense, your work also resonates with what I’ve recently called “black auto-citational practice,” a modality that...
- 3/25/2024
- MUBI
Just one year ahead of its 30th anniversary, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts has announced 11 winners — the most ever — of its annual prizes which recognize and fund risk-taking mid-career artists in the fields of dance, music, film/video, theater and visual arts.
The 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts winners — each of whom receive $75,000 in unrestricted funding (with one duo sharing the payment) — include filmmakers Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Christopher Harris.
“I believe in the arts. I think the arts are the heart and soul of our country. Not just music. We’re talking about actors and poets and painters and sculptors — the whole gamut. We need the artists, especially in these times. They are creating through their passion and those people need to be supported and helped and nurtured. It’s a dire need out there. A lot of people are struggling. We’re just trying to do our part,...
The 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts winners — each of whom receive $75,000 in unrestricted funding (with one duo sharing the payment) — include filmmakers Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Christopher Harris.
“I believe in the arts. I think the arts are the heart and soul of our country. Not just music. We’re talking about actors and poets and painters and sculptors — the whole gamut. We need the artists, especially in these times. They are creating through their passion and those people need to be supported and helped and nurtured. It’s a dire need out there. A lot of people are struggling. We’re just trying to do our part,...
- 5/1/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Take a look at “Euphoria” actress Hunter Schafer posing for Prada‘s 'Symbole' handbag campaign, photographed by Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff and Carrie Mae Weems:
"I do think blurred lines between an actor and a character make a deeper character", said Schafer about her role as 'Jules' in "Euphoria".
"The work of an actor is trying to simulate a full life. Some people might say that doesn't make me as strong of an actor, but that's how I learned. I'm still forming that process and also setting boundaries, which I didn't have.
"I want to have longevity as an artist, whatever form that comes in. The one thing I have faith in is the evolution of how I make art.
"It's something that is growing in me all the time. But there's no plan. I'm not attached to one career. I want to do everything. I'm really lucky that I have space and resources.
"I do think blurred lines between an actor and a character make a deeper character", said Schafer about her role as 'Jules' in "Euphoria".
"The work of an actor is trying to simulate a full life. Some people might say that doesn't make me as strong of an actor, but that's how I learned. I'm still forming that process and also setting boundaries, which I didn't have.
"I want to have longevity as an artist, whatever form that comes in. The one thing I have faith in is the evolution of how I make art.
"It's something that is growing in me all the time. But there's no plan. I'm not attached to one career. I want to do everything. I'm really lucky that I have space and resources.
- 11/28/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at “Euphoria” actress Hunter Schafer posing for Prada‘s 2022 ‘Symbole’ handbag campaign, photographed by Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff and Carrie Mae Weems:
"I do think blurred lines between an actor and a character make a deeper character", said Schafer about her role as 'Jules' in "Euphoria".
"The work of an actor is trying to simulate a full life. Some people might say that doesn't make me as strong of an actor, but that's how I learned. I'm still forming that process and also setting boundaries, which I didn't have.
"I want to have longevity as an artist, whatever form that comes in. The one thing I have faith in is the evolution of how I make art. It's something that is growing in me all the time. But there's no plan. I'm not attached to one career. I want to do everything. I'm really lucky that I have space and resources.
"I do think blurred lines between an actor and a character make a deeper character", said Schafer about her role as 'Jules' in "Euphoria".
"The work of an actor is trying to simulate a full life. Some people might say that doesn't make me as strong of an actor, but that's how I learned. I'm still forming that process and also setting boundaries, which I didn't have.
"I want to have longevity as an artist, whatever form that comes in. The one thing I have faith in is the evolution of how I make art. It's something that is growing in me all the time. But there's no plan. I'm not attached to one career. I want to do everything. I'm really lucky that I have space and resources.
- 9/25/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
How the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative Brought Filmmakers Spike Lee and Kyle Bell Together
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Over the weekend, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative presented a multidisciplinary arts festival on the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s campus in New York. The Rolex Arts Weekend offered two days of public conversations, performances, screenings and exhibitions in celebration of a culmination of the latest Rolex Arts Initiative cycle, which pairs talented artists from across the globe with world-renowned artists in their chosen medium. This past cycle of the initiative, established in 2002, saw Spike Lee, Phyllida Lloyd, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Carrie Mae Weems as mentors in film, theater, open category and visual arts, respectively.
Rebecca Irvin, head of the Rolex Arts Initiative, said in a statement: “After several years of holding the Rolex Arts Weekend in great artistic centres from Mexico City to Berlin to Cape Town, we are delighted to return this year to New York, where the programme...
Over the weekend, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative presented a multidisciplinary arts festival on the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s campus in New York. The Rolex Arts Weekend offered two days of public conversations, performances, screenings and exhibitions in celebration of a culmination of the latest Rolex Arts Initiative cycle, which pairs talented artists from across the globe with world-renowned artists in their chosen medium. This past cycle of the initiative, established in 2002, saw Spike Lee, Phyllida Lloyd, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Carrie Mae Weems as mentors in film, theater, open category and visual arts, respectively.
Rebecca Irvin, head of the Rolex Arts Initiative, said in a statement: “After several years of holding the Rolex Arts Weekend in great artistic centres from Mexico City to Berlin to Cape Town, we are delighted to return this year to New York, where the programme...
- 9/12/2022
- by Evan Nicole Brown
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Take a look at “Euphoria” actress Hunter Schafer posing for Prada‘s 2022 ‘Symbole’ handbag campaign, in new images from Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff and Carrie Mae Weems:
"I do think blurred lines between an actor and a character make a deeper character", said Schafer about her role as 'Jules' in "Euphoria".
"The work of an actor is trying to simulate a full life. Some people might say that doesn't make me as strong of an actor, but that's how I learned. I'm still forming that process and also setting boundaries, which I didn't have.
"I want to have longevity as an artist, whatever form that comes in. The one thing I have faith in is the evolution of how I make art. It's something that is growing in me all the time. But there's no plan. I'm not attached to one career. I want to do everything. I'm really...
"I do think blurred lines between an actor and a character make a deeper character", said Schafer about her role as 'Jules' in "Euphoria".
"The work of an actor is trying to simulate a full life. Some people might say that doesn't make me as strong of an actor, but that's how I learned. I'm still forming that process and also setting boundaries, which I didn't have.
"I want to have longevity as an artist, whatever form that comes in. The one thing I have faith in is the evolution of how I make art. It's something that is growing in me all the time. But there's no plan. I'm not attached to one career. I want to do everything. I'm really...
- 5/16/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
In 1994, the conceptual artist Carrie Mae Weems created a poignant series of prints for Hidden Witness, a Getty Museum exhibition showcasing antebellum-period photographs of African Americans. Using photographs sourced from university and museum archives, Weems crafted a series that commented on the violence of photography and the white gaze in American history. Some of the most distressing images were copies of the Zealy daguerreotypes, the earliest known images of enslaved people. They were commissioned in the 1850s by the Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, who hoped they would prove the inferiority of African American people. When Harvard found out about Weems’ ...
- 11/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 1994, the conceptual artist Carrie Mae Weems created a poignant series of prints for Hidden Witness, a Getty Museum exhibition showcasing antebellum-period photographs of African Americans. Using photographs sourced from university and museum archives, Weems crafted a series that commented on the violence of photography and the white gaze in American history. Some of the most distressing images were copies of the Zealy daguerreotypes, the earliest known images of enslaved people. They were commissioned in the 1850s by the Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, who hoped they would prove the inferiority of African American people. When Harvard found out about Weems’ ...
- 11/12/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
On Saturday at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Carrie Mae Weems moderated a conversation between artists in the industry that have pushed the envelope when it comes to storytelling and representation. The panelists each had films at Sundance including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ai Weiwei (Vivos), Kerry Washington (The Fight) and Julie Taymor (The Glorias). When the topic of appropriation in storytelling came up, Taymor chimed in.
“Before Across the Universe, I really didn’t do anything that had to do with me personally,” she said. “I lived in Indonesia for 4 years, I had a theater company — my work was very cross-cultural.”
She continued, “I did Frida in Mexico; The Lion King is whatever you want to say — I heard the term ‘cultural appropriation’ in the past and it’s a fascinating subject.”
She went on to talk about authenticity and said that authenticity...
“Before Across the Universe, I really didn’t do anything that had to do with me personally,” she said. “I lived in Indonesia for 4 years, I had a theater company — my work was very cross-cultural.”
She continued, “I did Frida in Mexico; The Lion King is whatever you want to say — I heard the term ‘cultural appropriation’ in the past and it’s a fascinating subject.”
She went on to talk about authenticity and said that authenticity...
- 1/26/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: This article contains details about The Glorias. During Sundance’s “Power of Story: Just Art” The Glorias director Julie Taymor joined Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ai Weiwei, Kerry Washington and moderator Carrie Mae Weems on a panel to discuss how artists push boundaries. While talking about her film, which is set to make its world premiere at the Park City fest, she spilled the beans about a special appearance from a certain someone in the upcoming film about iconic, journalist fighter, and feminist Gloria Steinem.
“I’m going to give you a spoiler,” Taymor said about her film. “You get some of the real thing in there.” Of course, she’s hinting at the fact that the real Gloria Steinem appears in the film which stars Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander as the feminist icon in defining moments of her life.
Based on the Steinem’s own memoir My Life on the Road,...
“I’m going to give you a spoiler,” Taymor said about her film. “You get some of the real thing in there.” Of course, she’s hinting at the fact that the real Gloria Steinem appears in the film which stars Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander as the feminist icon in defining moments of her life.
Based on the Steinem’s own memoir My Life on the Road,...
- 1/25/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival will be full of stars and legends, but the opening weekend of the snowy Robert Redford-founded shindig looks to solidly belong to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
First, there’s a world premiere of the Hulu docuseries Hillary, about the candidate who won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election but lost to Donald Trump. It’s set to be screened on Saturday, January 25 in Park City. The ex-Secretary of State is also slated to appear for an intimate Q&a the next day, as well as a showing of all four episodes of Hillary in Salt Lake City on January 26.
While Sundance has long played host to major political players — like failed 2012 Gop candidate and current Utah senator Mitt Romney and video call-ins from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last year — the former First Lady and one-time potential first female Potus may eclipse all who have come before,...
First, there’s a world premiere of the Hulu docuseries Hillary, about the candidate who won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election but lost to Donald Trump. It’s set to be screened on Saturday, January 25 in Park City. The ex-Secretary of State is also slated to appear for an intimate Q&a the next day, as well as a showing of all four episodes of Hillary in Salt Lake City on January 26.
While Sundance has long played host to major political players — like failed 2012 Gop candidate and current Utah senator Mitt Romney and video call-ins from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last year — the former First Lady and one-time potential first female Potus may eclipse all who have come before,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
There is an infectious joy to DeWanda Wise's voice that can't be resisted, especially when chatting over the phone while thousands of miles apart. For two years the 35-year-old actress made Netflix subscribers fall in love with her, first as Nola Darling in the recently canceled, Spike Lee-directed series based on his 1986 film She's Gotta Have It, and then as Erin Kennedy in Someone Great, the romantic comedy that had everyone singing Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" with relish. Though the two have a few differences between them, each one has a thread of Wise that is impossible to miss: a bright vivaciousness that you can't help but be drawn by.
While promoting her new venture Project Purple Light With Barefoot Wine, which celebrates the self-expression of black women as art, Wise spoke with Popsugar about how her work in She's Gotta Have It gave her a new awareness...
While promoting her new venture Project Purple Light With Barefoot Wine, which celebrates the self-expression of black women as art, Wise spoke with Popsugar about how her work in She's Gotta Have It gave her a new awareness...
- 8/12/2019
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
The Very Eye of Night is a series of columns on nonbinary and female avant-garde film and video artists. The title refers to Maya Deren’s last completed film.Presented by the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the program An Affinity for Labor showcases Karimah Ashadu’s video King of Boys, on January 7, 2018. The screening is part of the series Affinities, or The Weight of Cinema, co-curated by Kevin Jerome Everson and Greg de Cuir Jr. Karimah Ashadu, 2017. Image by Kadara Enyeasi.Between the two worldsI was with youbut as the wind on the Caspian Sea I was with youin the ancient ruins of timeyou rode me hobby-horseinto the age of revolution Throughout the course of my existence& I have been here alwaysI saw everlasting death& the endlessweeping of women I saw you and your fatheryour mother &all your sistersfrozen staticin the autumnof the patriarch Afraid for...
- 1/8/2018
- MUBI
Thomas Allen Harris' Acclaimed Doc, 'Through a Lens Darkly' Set for USA Theatrical Run Starting 8/27
Thomas Allen Harris' "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People," a Sundance Film Festival 2014 selection, will make its Us theatrical premiere beginning Wednesday, August 27, presented by Film Forum (NYC), where it'll enjoy a 2-week engagement. The documentary explores how African Americans have used photography as a tool for social change, illuminating the hidden, little known and under-appreciated stories of African Americans transforming themselves and the nation through the power of the camera lens. The film also explores how contemporary photographers and artists like Deborah Willis, Carrie Mae Weems,...
- 8/11/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Thomas Allen Harris' "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People," a Sundance Film Festival 2014 selection, will make its Us theatrical premiere beginning Wednesday, August 27, presented by Film Forum (NYC), where it'll enjoy a 2-week engagement. The documentary explores how African Americans have used photography as a tool for social change, illuminating the hidden, little known and under-appreciated stories of African Americans transforming themselves and the nation through the power of the camera lens. The film also explores how contemporary photographers and artists like Deborah Willis, Carrie Mae Weems,...
- 7/22/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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