https://thereadingroomhtx.org The Reading Room HTX Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:08:49 +0000 https://thereadingroomhtx.org en https://thereadingroomhtx.org/Browse-Read-Discover Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:08:49 +0000 The Reading Room HTX https://thereadingroomhtx.org/Browse-Read-Discover The Reading Room is an independent reference library for books on Black art and culture based in Houston, Texas. Browse the full collection here and visit our space in downtown Houston (1111 Providence St). https://thereadingroomhtx.org/Info Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:26:26 +0000 The Reading Room HTX https://thereadingroomhtx.org/Info ABOUT<img width="3000" height="2143" width_o="3000" height_o="2143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f063b435d17bcb407284e7c77a88b817910297522eff93fe6974f363a7925da/DSC09008.png" data-mid="207304632" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f063b435d17bcb407284e7c77a88b817910297522eff93fe6974f363a7925da/DSC09008.png" /> Founded in 2023 by writer Amarie Gipson, The Reading Room is a Houston-based independent reference library dedicated to increasing access to Black art and culture through literature, print media and community engagement. &nbsp;The Reading Room hosts curated events, including artist talks, film screenings, and interactive workshops, all designed to foster a deeper connection to the library’s growing collection of 700+ books. Although the books are not for loan or purchase, a rotating selection of the library’s collection is available to browse in person at our semi-permanent space inside Sanman Studios.&nbsp;With nearly a decade of experience in the realms of fine art, music and media, Gipson built The Reading Room with a desire to share her deep passion for Black culture and advance a new model for librarianship and public institution building. BROWSE. READ. DISCOVER.<img width="720" height="720" width_o="720" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a534560d602cb47092ea235341adf7704da2f6043e53d44964f4d6cf6d373c24/bulb-brain-color-1.png" data-mid="231735034" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/a534560d602cb47092ea235341adf7704da2f6043e53d44964f4d6cf6d373c24/bulb-brain-color-1.png" /> CONNECTFor information on library pop-ups and public programs, follow us on Instagram:&nbsp;@thereadingroom.htx For research assistance, special requests, donations or general inquiries, please email us: info[at]thereadingroomhtx.org &nbsp; https://thereadingroomhtx.org/Intro Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:50:20 +0000 The Reading Room HTX https://thereadingroomhtx.org/Intro COLLECTION <img width="1784" height="2074" width_o="1784" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b836db42891cb92cf43a3462c2c571df9a00b5996b3a2c95df9193e61eefb80/Lubaina-Himid-.jpg" data-mid="207312530" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeb8b78ff307dd346ab65850ea56c8f5ce7982b146ac3cb5e8ab63112a306323/154-contemporary-art.jpg" data-mid="167539005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eeb8b78ff307dd346ab65850ea56c8f5ce7982b146ac3cb5e8ab63112a306323/154-contemporary-art.jpg" /> <img width="1316" height="1786" width_o="1316" height_o="1786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0437981d3d9b16b7f524b2cbb1af4a7e79278fbf2005dad32243bfbfd185e6d6/154-back.jpg" data-mid="167539006" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0437981d3d9b16b7f524b2cbb1af4a7e79278fbf2005dad32243bfbfd185e6d6/154-back.jpg" /> 1:54 Contemporary Art Fair London&nbsp;Publisher: Art Africa Ltd Year:&nbsp;2018 Pages:&nbsp;170 EXPLORE FURTHER ART &amp; DESIGN https://thereadingroomhtx.org/1971-A-Year-in-the-Life-of-Color Tue, 07 Feb 2023 03:59:54 +0000 The Reading Room HTX https://thereadingroomhtx.org/1971-A-Year-in-the-Life-of-Color <img width="1575" height="2006" width_o="1575" height_o="2006" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb03a7df79e9e6b6b9cb50e0c0999061bfb6beafe1375b4e33b491c44f11c60c/1971-a-year.jpg" data-mid="167527142" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb03a7df79e9e6b6b9cb50e0c0999061bfb6beafe1375b4e33b491c44f11c60c/1971-a-year.jpg" /> <img width="1597" height="2020" width_o="1597" height_o="2020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/489e10598e4597a34387cca5024cf9c453b7cc7790ee67e5c0566b2fa0e14a25/1971-back.jpg" data-mid="167527145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/489e10598e4597a34387cca5024cf9c453b7cc7790ee67e5c0566b2fa0e14a25/1971-back.jpg" /> 1971: A Year in the Life of ColorAuthor:&nbsp;Darby English (Author) Publisher:&nbsp;University of Chicago Press Year:&nbsp;2016 Pages:&nbsp;312 ISBN:&nbsp;978-0226131054 In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show, a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto.1971: A Year in the Life of Color looks at many black artists’ desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts—and those of their advocates—to further that aim through public exhibition. Amid calls to define a “black aesthetic,” these experiments with modernist art prioritized cultural interaction and instability. Contemporary Black Artists in America highlighted abstraction as a stance against normative approaches, while The DeLuxe Show positioned abstraction in a center of urban blight. The importance of these experiments, English argues, came partly from color’s special status as a cultural symbol and partly from investigations of color already under way in late modern art and criticism. With their supporters, black modernists—among them Peter Bradley, Frederick Eversley, Alvin Loving, Raymond Saunders, and Alma Thomas—rose above the demand to represent or be represented, compromising nothing in their appeals for interracial collaboration and, above all, responding with optimism rather than cynicism to the surrounding culture’s preoccupation with color. EXPLORE FURTHER ART &amp; DESIGN https://thereadingroomhtx.org/30-Americans-Rubell-Family-Collection Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:18:58 +0000 The Reading Room HTX https://thereadingroomhtx.org/30-Americans-Rubell-Family-Collection <img width="1906" height="2608" width_o="1906" height_o="2608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44eaeed2ba2cd4205903188c91c9e61ebf8d4d7f8970565e61fea9f69a2f5cac/30-americans.jpg" data-mid="167538961" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44eaeed2ba2cd4205903188c91c9e61ebf8d4d7f8970565e61fea9f69a2f5cac/30-americans.jpg" /> <img width="1877" height="2622" width_o="1877" height_o="2622" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0251c4a04a667a53bd8983482fa6efa3a4c4acae7bd5835cf59cfb405c819f2f/30-back.jpg" data-mid="167538962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0251c4a04a667a53bd8983482fa6efa3a4c4acae7bd5835cf59cfb405c819f2f/30-back.jpg" /> 30 Americans: Rubell Family CollectionAuthor:&nbsp;Franklin Sirmans (Author), Glenn Ligon (Author), Robert Hobbs (Author), Michele Wallace (Author) Publisher:&nbsp;Rubell MuseumYear:&nbsp;2019 Pages:&nbsp;223 ISBN:&nbsp;978-0982119518 Since the 1960s, Miami's Rubell family has collected the works of the most relevant contemporary African American artists as an integral part of their broader mission to collect the most interesting art of our time. 30 Americans showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial, sexual and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations. All of the works of art in the exhibition are from the Rubells permanent collection. A comprehensive catalog with essays by Robert Hobbs, Glenn Ligon, Franklin Sirmans, and Michele Wallace. EXPLORE FURTHER ART &amp; DESIGN https://thereadingroomhtx.org/9-More-Weeks Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:00:01 +0000 The Reading Room HTX https://thereadingroomhtx.org/9-More-Weeks <img width="1186" height="1555" width_o="1186" height_o="1555" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16141df7fd923aee391a893416d3f4819d1aa1ea399bfafb2eaeaa0929793a11/9-more-weeks.jpg" data-mid="167527090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16141df7fd923aee391a893416d3f4819d1aa1ea399bfafb2eaeaa0929793a11/9-more-weeks.jpg" /> 9 More Weeks Author:&nbsp;Sinazo Chiya (Interviewer, Author)Publisher:&nbsp;Stevenson Gallery&nbsp;Year:&nbsp;2018 Pages:&nbsp;144 ISBN:&nbsp;978-0620810692 9 More Weeks, a book of artist interviews by Cape Town-based writer Sinazo Chiya, follows 9 Weeks with visiting writer/curator Hansi Momodu-Gordon (2016). Where the first volume, in Momodu-Gordon’s words, 'mapped a journey through an artistic landscape, at a particular moment in time', Chiya’s edition functions 'to reflect rather than map the elasticity of artists’ perspectives and practices in an accelerated social moment'. The conversations - with Dada Khanyisa, Zander Blom, Bronwyn Katz, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Guy Tillim, Mame-Diarra Niang, Claudette Schreuders, Simphiwe Ndzube and Portia Zvavahera - touch on the political potential of abstraction, 'whether or not the question of beauty is still worth asking and if artists have any obligations towards the time and place in which they find themselves'. 'Authorship, material and meaning prove sites of contention', and 'language finds itself wanting'. Chiya continues, in her introduction, “Repeatedly, these conversations reflect a moment of unknowing, speculation rather than conclusiveness. Assertions are made on the basis of feeling as each artist unveils a cosmology of shifting personal deities, spanning childhood games, recurrent fascinations, a love for plants. These discussions seem a display of some chimerical alchemy. They are reminders that despite the obscurantism endemic to contemporary art, sincerity is the driving impulse for any set of individuals who have dedicated their lives to the act of creation.” EXPLORE FURTHER ART &amp; DESIGN