The show looks to be full of riches: work by Nella Mae Rowe, Sister
Gertrude Morgan, Consuelo “Chelo” González Amézcua, a beautiful Freedom quilt by Jessie Bell Telfair, paintings by my longtime
hero Ralph Fasanella, and plenty of other artists whose names have been
lost but whose work endures. The show
is up through May 31, 2020. For
a nice piece about it on NY1 by Juan Manuel
Benítez, go here.
This
link to the
February 6th episode of NYC-Arts will take you to a re-broadcast of a 2015
interview that curator Valérie Rousseau gave about the Encyclopedic Palace (that clip comes in toward the end, at about 21:26).
And here are my earlier
posts about the Encyclopedic Palace—its journey from a storage locker, where it sat for twenty-two
years, to the Folk Art Museum when my family donated it in 2003; and three posts from 2013 (and early 2014) when the Encyclopedic Palace miraculously became the
centerpiece of the 55th Venice Biennale curated by Massimiliano Gioni. Finally, a piece by Leigh Anne
Miller about that “backstory” from Art in
America in 2013.
Thank you for
reading. And thank you for dreaming with me.
