AFA Winter 2019

HAPPENINGS Winter 62 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Afrocosmologies: American Reflections Through January 20, 2020 Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Conn. For information, visit www.thewadsworth.org or call 860.278.2670 Afrocosmologies: American Reflections presents the work of successive generations of African-American artists expressing their unique and evolving worldviews and providing a window into a dynamic cosmos of influences that shape contemporary American art. This exhibition is a collaboration of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art, and draws from more than one hundred art objects that span various media, present potent voices, and pose multiple questions. Afrocosmologies is an exhibition about presence, faith, authentic experiences, and representations of gender within a family of people born to many cosmological influences. With a predominant arc between the twentieth and twenty first century, the exhibition brings together the work of an incredible assortment of artists including Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Elizabeth Catlett, Willie Cole, Melvin Edwards, Titus Kaphar, Lois Mailou Jones, Kerry James Marshall, Alison Saar, Hale Woodruff, Shinique Smith, and Kehinde Wiley along with many additional artists of note. ANT I QUAR I US GREENWICH WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE Fine Art, Jewelry, and Antiques “Buy what you love ... Trust what you buy.” - Jeff Cooley, Owner of the Cooley Gallery Fine American Art, Old Lyme, CT Featuring over 40 exceptional exhibitors with fine art, furniture, oriental carpets, silver, jewelry, mid-centurymodern, marine art, prints, handbags andmore. OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW PARTY Design Chair: Bronson VanWyck December 6, 2019 | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Tickets: $150 Available at greenwichhistory.org/antiquarius Benefitting the GreenwichHistorical Society ANTIQUE SHOW SCHEDULE December 7, 2019 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm December 8, 2019 | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Admission: $15 per person. Unlimited re-entry Managed by: Frank Gaglio, Inc. 7 Center St, Rhinebeck, NY office: 845-876-0616 | show phone: 914-474-8552 barnstar1@aol.com | w ww.barnstar.com Romare Bearden, The Lamp, 1984. Lithograph. © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Hartford, CT (2011.7).