Tag Archives: Barack Obama

MR. WASH AND IKECHUKWU ONYEWUENYI IN CONVERSATION

Prison has a lot of politics. Art was a neutral zone and a way to express the human emotions that both I and the other inmates were feeling… I’d love to meet other artists and find out what’s going on out here. I’m learning a lot about art politics on a day-to-day basis. — Fulton Leroy Washington

This week, join Washington (aka MR. WASH) in conversation with Made in L.A. 2020 assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi.

See link below to r.s.v.p. to the online event.

FULTON LEROY WASHINGTON (MR. WASH) and IKECHUKWU ONYEWUENYI IN CONVERSATION

Made in L.A. 2020—a version

Hammer Museum and the Huntington Library

Thursday, February 11.

5 pm on the West Coast; 8 pm East Coast.

Fulton Leroy Washington (aka MR. WASH), from top: Mr. Rene # Man Power, 2011, oil on stretched canvas; Sands of Time, 2011, oil on stretched canvas; Political Tears Hillary, 2008, oil on stretched canvas; Eric Reese Tear Drop, 2011, oil on stretched canvas; Mondaine’s Market, 2005, oil on stretched canvas, collection of John and Juanita Mondaine; Michael Jackson Tears, 2010, oil on stretched canvas; Political Tears Obama, 2008, oil on stretched canvas. Images © Fulton Leroy Washington, courtesy of the artist.

JOHN LEWIS — GOOD TROUBLE

I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in Congress. But there are forces today trying to take us back to another time and another dark period. We’ve come so far, we’ve made so much progress. But as a nation, as a people, we’re not quite there yet. We have miles to go. — Rep. John Lewis, (D) Georgia

As someone who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma and Washington D.C., Congressman Lewis—who has represented Georgia’s 5th District since 1987—knows the necessity of participating in the franchise. He spent the 1970s going door to door registering future Black voters and viscerally understands—in our current summer of reckoning—the existential challenges facing our country leading up to the November elections.

JOHN LEWIS—GOOD TROUBLE, Dawn Porter’s documentary on the life and work of the civil rights activist, is a testimony to the power of persistence and presence—of being there. As the late Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings confirms in the film, “The reason [Lewis is] effective as a leader is because he’s lived it.”

Streaming now on multiple platforms. See links below for details.

JOHN LEWIS—GOOD TROUBLE

Magnolia Pictures

Laemmle Virtual Cinema, Los Angeles.

Dawn Porter, John Lewis—Good Trouble (2020), from top: John Lewis; Lewis leads Selma, Alabama, marchers, March 7, 1965, courtesy and © Birmingham News; John Lewis—Good Trouble poster, courtesy and © Magnolia Pictures, 2020; President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Lewis during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington; Lewis (far right) with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (center) and the Reverend Ralph Abernathy (far left). Images courtesy and © Magnolia Pictures.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

The official portraits of President Obama and Michelle Obama were unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery today. The Obamas were joined onstage by artists Kehinde Wiley (Barack Obama) and Amy Sherald (Michelle Obama). Shonda Rhimes, Steven Spielberg, and Eric Holder were in the audience to celebrate the occasion.

The portraits are the latest addition to the newly renovated America’s Presidents Gallery at the NPG.

 

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, 8th Street and F Street NW, Washington, D.C.

npg.si.edu/exhibition/obama-portraits-unveiled

See: washingtonpost.com/obamas-portraits

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