Free New Art at Hudson Yards on Sundays
If you’ve missed out on visiting art exhibitions over the past few months, The Shed at Hudson Yards hosts a free digital art show on its websites every Sunday, with content updated every two weeks to showcase new artists.
The current digital series is called Close Up.
A new episode of the program airs today at 6:00 pm ET by Troy Anthony and Jerome Ellis . Unlike some of the other pieces that can be enjoyed anytime you want to participate, the duo will perform a “live virtual music ritual for mourning, communion and healing” via Zoom. You need to register for the event prior to the event. Registration ends at 5:00 pm ET. If you miss it; however, event documentation will be made available to future attendees on the event page on The Shed .
Here is a description of the event
IN THE PASSING NOTE, Troy Anthony and Jerome Ellis create a virtual sanctuary on Zoom and invite us to participate in a joint ritual based on the seven stages of grief. Together, they composed original music and lyrics as if passing notes to each other at school to create a space where we can honor the healers in our communities, tackle the racial and gender injustices exposed by the coronavirus, and mourn those. who died during the COVID-19 crisis and celebrate the new habits, practices and relationships that were born during that time.
RECORDING TRANSFERS arose from a conversation between the artists and The Shed shortly after the death of Ellis’s grandfather on April 4, 2020. As with many families, Ellis’s relatives were unable to hold the funeral due to meeting restrictions, and Anthony and Ellis began asking themselves how they could deliberately use Zoom’s digital platform to bring grieving loved ones together. Inspired by sources including Assata Shakur ‘s poem “AFFIRMATION,” by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler on grief and mourning, and the hymn “His eye on the Sparrow,” TRANSFER NOTES is intended to be experienced as a living, participatory event that makes space, to share grief in real time while apart from each other. Documentation of the ritual will be added to this page after the event in the form of digital artifacts so that future visitors can harness the healing power of the work.
Aside from today’s performance, several other commissions from the series are still available on The Shed’s website.
Here’s one that looks at street dancing from outside the house :
And another study of how social distancing and the American dream are changing in urban communities:
If you’ve been lacking in performing arts in the past few months, or just want to try something new, the Commission Collection is worth taking a look at. And if you just want to use your quarantine time to learn a little more about art, MoMA is now offering a lot of free content on Coursera , including strategies for interacting with art.