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Vote for Your Favorite Independent Lens Viewer Artist!
During last week’s live chat with filmmakers — co-presented with PBS NewsHour’s Art Beat — we launched a contest daring Independent Lens fans to submit their artwork.
Our inbox quickly flooded with entries and we have assembled 15 finalists for you to review. Check out the slideshow of our talented contestants’ work, and then vote for your favorite. You can vote only once a day.
Polling will close on Monday, April 25 at noon PDT. We’ll announce our winner on April 26!
(This works best if you click the four arrows icon in the bottom right of the window to make the slideshow full-screen, and click “show info” as the slideshow plays, to learn more about each piece and the artists.)
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Enter the Independent Lens Artists Month Contest
Prizes include a signed print from Marwencol and an original painting from Mikey Welsh (former Weezer bassist)
In celebration of Artists Month, we’re putting out a call for entries to you — our creative audience — to create and submit a piece of artwork that best reflects you. We’re looking for expressions of identity and creativity here: Perhaps it’s a self-portrait, or a photograph of a beloved object, a diorama scene, or a collage of found objects. Prizes will be awarded to all who enter, but the further along you advance in the competition, the better the goods you’ll win!
We were inspired by the docs airing this month and the artists they celebrate: Vik Muniz’s portraits made with garbage in Waste Land; the graffiti artwork in Tamra Davis’s Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child; and Mark Hogancamp’s spectacularly evocative photographs of his entirely original universe in the film Marwencol. In that spirit, we created this contest to celebrate that original vision in you, our raison d’etre.
Live Chat for Artists Month from ITVS, Art Beat, and Independent Lens
In celebration of Artists Month, PBS NewsHour’s Art Beat, Independent Lens, and ITVS are hosting a live chat with the filmmakers behind this month’s slate of amazing docs. The chat starts at 7PM EST and will include filmmakers Tamra Davis (director of Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child), Pedro Kos (editor of Waste Land) and Jeff Malmberg (director of Marwencol). Enjoy!
Basquiat Resonates through the Haitian Art Community
Carine Fabius from The Huffington Post, reviews Tamra Davis’s film about iconic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In preparation for the release of Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, I was asked by ITVS to blog about it for Beyond the Box. While I’d like to think it’s because of my terribly trenchant observations about art, a subject I occasionally write about for The Huffington Post, it’s probably because I am Haitian.
Basquiat was born of a Puerto Rican mother and a Haitian father; but I can tell you that to us, that darling of the 1980s New York art scene who went on to international fame and fortune, was of course Haitian! The natural outgrowth of a country where an artist is born every day. In fact, Haiti just might be the biggest source for black art in the world; so it makes total sense that a wunderkind like Basquiat should hail from there.
Art in the Shadow of Extremism
The Desert of Forbidden Art, airing Tuesday at 10PM on Independent Lens provides viewers with some of the art world’s best-kept secrets.
Stalin consolidated his 1950′s post-war power by declaring all modernist art “decadent” and “bourgeois.” Those caught practicing it were sent to the gulag, or executed.
So archaeologist Igor Savitsky began his heroic quest to save 44,000 pieces of forbidden art from the masters of Russian modernism by squirreling them away in an Uzbek museum, far from the eyes of the KGB.
Paula Kerger Rings in Artists Month on Independent Lens
PBS President & CEO Paula Kerger highlights the arts-stacked lineup on Independent Lens this April in celebration of Artists Month.
Watch the video after the jump.
Independent Lens Celebrates Artists Month
A special interactive section on marginalized art now available on the IL website.
From street art to pre-punk beat literature; from Soviet censorship to the Third Reich’s condemnation of “degenerate art”; art from the underrepresented always seems to nudge culture to the edge of its comfort zone. Check out our galleries, quizzes, and video goodies on the special Independent Lens Artists Month page for a multimedia safari into marginalized art. Features include:
• The Eye of the Beholder Challenge — Why does one work of art sell for millions while another lands in the Museum of Bad Art?
• The Savitsky Collection — An interactive gallery of artwork from the Nukus Museum in Uzbekistan.
• The Ultimate William S. Burroughs Quiz — How much do you really know about the man and his work? You have 15 seconds to answer each question!
• The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz — Artist Vik Muniz creates the “worst possible illusion” using soil, thread, chocolate, sugar, air — whatever strikes his creative spirit.
• Off the Map: Build your Own Backyard Paradise — Choose one of our virtual “backyards.” Then scavenge through some “junk drawers” to find “objects of delight” that you can use to create your own visionary world.
The Desert of Forbidden Art Arrives in Los Angeles
Coming to Independent Lens on April 5, The Desert of Forbidden Art opens in Los Angeles on Friday, March 18 at the Laemmle Theatres.
The documentary by filmmakers Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev tells the incredible story about a group of visionary Soviet-era artists and one man who risked his life to rescue their work.
The art exhibited in the film was featured earlier this month in The New York Times.
The Desert of Forbidden Art Opens in New York
Documentary on Russian Art will air April 5 on Independent Lens
The Desert of Forbidden Art, by filmmakers Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev tells the incredible story about a group of visionary Soviet-era artists and one man who risked his life to rescue their work.
Coming to Independent Lens on April 5, the documentary has its theatrical release in New York starting on Friday at the Cinema Village.
For background, check out this recent feature in The New York Times.
Latino Art & Culture Shines in Visiones
Parts three and four of Visiones airs this Sunday on Global Voices on PBS World. The six-part series examines the richness and impact of Latino culture through the eyes of some of the most influential painters, musicians, dancers, and writers working in America today.
The film, directed by Hector Galan, explores everything from New York’s break-dancing community to the theater scene in Texas, offering a truly unique cross section of Latino artists working today.
Visiones weaves a tapestry of paintings, songs, dances, and spoken-word performances to reflect on how Latinos have impacted arts and culture.
Watch a clip from parts three and four of Visiones, airing this Sunday on Global Voices on PBS WORLD.
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