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- Inside L.A.'s 'Soul of a Nation' Art Exhibit - Hollywood Reporter
- Marsai Martin on New Movie 'Little' - Marsai Martin Youngest Executive Producer - ELLE.com
- Who Did Beyoncé Date Before Jay-Z? - The Cheat Sheet
| Inside L.A.'s 'Soul of a Nation' Art Exhibit - Hollywood Reporter Posted: 20 Mar 2019 03:59 PM PDT Featuring works from 1963-1983 by such artists as Betye Saar and Dave Hammons, many loaned by such Hollywood collectors as Spike Lee and Jay-Z and Beyonce, the show opens March 23.From the collection belonging to Tonya and Spike Lee, America the Beautiful is a 1960 black-and-white canvas by Norman Lewis that initially appears to be an abstract, until you draw nearer and see it is composed of symbols of hatred, including Ku Klux Klan hoods. Hanging nearby is a body print by Los Angeles-based artist David Hammons, from the Carter Collection belonging to Beyonce and Jay-Z. And Barkley Hendricks' canvas, What's Going On, belonging to producer Hunter Gray and his wife, is also included, as is Benny Andrews' Did the Bear Sit Under the Tree? from the collection of Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel. They're all part of "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983," detailing the African-American experience in a time of political unrest through the paintings, photos and sculptures of 60 artists, at The Broad, March 23 through Sept. 1. "They had an audience, but it was a small audience at that time, the way that artists practicing in under-recognized areas have to depend on one another," The Broad founding director Joanne Heyler tells The Hollywood Reporter. "There was some attention being paid by some collectors and collectors of color." Quincy Jones was one of those collectors back in the day and remains one today. Likewise, so are Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, record producer Swizz Beatz and Grey's Anatomy star Jesse Williams. "I do think that celebrities like Jay-Z and Beyonce doing a video in the Louvre or even Solange incorporating artwork in her albums and her videos, I think that has deepened the conversation for people who may or may not see themselves in a museum space," offers LACMA vp education and public programs Naima Keith. "Some museum people might scoff at that idea, but I think if people who follow Jay-Z and Beyonce maybe go to the Louvre and discover something new, I'm all for it. To me, it's exciting to see just how popular culture and the art world are colliding in so many different ways." An opening night party on Friday is expected to bring guests including Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance, artist Mark Bradford, Anna Deavere Smith, Ava DuVernay, Justin Simien and hosts Eli and Edythe Broad. Examining influences from the Civil Rights and Black Power movements to minimalism and abstraction, "Soul of a Nation" offers political statements, such as Emory Douglas' work for the Black Panther newspaper showing Huey Newton seated with a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other. But it also presents apolitical photo collages by Romare Bearden, as well as works that land in between, like Hammons' The Door (Admissions Office), which includes a glass-paned door stenciled with the titular words, defaced with black smears of arms, face and torso, as if someone had run smack into it while closed. "I think most of us understand this was a time of civil unrest," says Keith, who was formerly deputy director and chief curator of the California African American Museum. "It wasn't all a picture of a Black Panther with a gun, but different people's responses to the time period in which they were working. What the show also does well is provide a historical context, so people understand that some of the work that was produced at the time that maybe had a militaristic stance was doing so because of the violence that was happening all around them." When Heyler decided to bring the show to Los Angeles, after seeing it at London's Tate Modern in 2017, she knew she wanted to build out the exhibit's L.A.-based elements, giving Betye Saar greater play, including her Sambo's Banjo, a delicate piece at CAAM that doesn't travel well. Additional works by Noah Purifoy and David Hammons were added, with seven pieces overall coming from CAAM. "For us, it was important because this work deserves to be shown, especially in the context of a larger international conversation, but also because CAAM has been collecting and supporting these artists since its founding," Keith says. While works by an African-American artist like the late Jean-Michel Basquiat sell for hundreds of millions of dollars, his nearest competitor is Mark Bradford, who tops out at around $12 million, the highest ever paid for a living African-American artist. Meanwhile, white counterpart Gerhard Richter set a record at twice the amount. If markets seem slow to react, at least museums and other fine arts institutions are beginning to stir. Keith worked on the Hammer's 2011 show, "Now Dig This: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980," which featured many of the same artists in "Soul of a Nation," while LACMA's 2015 exhibit, "Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada," relocated works from the eccentric artist's Joshua Tree retreat to the museum campus. LACMA's current Charles White retrospective dovetails with "Soul of a Nation," as does The Skirball Institute's "Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite," which opens April 1. Surrounding "Soul of a Nation" is a schedule of conversations with figures including Thelma Golden, director and chief of The Studio Museum in Harlem. Keith will sit for a conversation with Kellie Jones, professor of art history and archaeology and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. Sponsoring partner Ford Foundation president Darren Walker will chat with filmmaker Ava DuVernay, director of the upcoming series Central Park 5 and founder of Array, a distribution company dedicated to independent films by people of color and women. "There's a tendency in our polarized moment for people to think monolithically. There were many different ways to make art as an African-American artist and always have been," Heyler says. "In terms of the general audience that will come in and see this show, I hope they come away with a nuanced view of art practice during that period. I hope that they also see that we still have a long way to go as a society, and that some of the concerns that are very raw and evident in some of the works are still very much with us today."  |
| Marsai Martin on New Movie 'Little' - Marsai Martin Youngest Executive Producer - ELLE.com Posted: 21 Mar 2019 05:49 AM PDT Four years ago, a 10-year-old girl marched into Universal Studios' headquarters wearing a green floral blazer, her hair slicked back into a she-means-business bun. Marsai Martin had an idea. "I was feeling fresh, to be honest," says the actress, now 14. She had just wrapped her first season of ABC's Peabody-winning sitcom Black-ish, in which she plays the Johnson family's brainiac youngest daughter, Diane. At Martin's side was series creator Kenya Barris. Earlier that day, they'd calmed their nerves and perfected her pitch over a breakfast of waffles. She was ready. This month, Martin's idea—a timely twist on the body-swap genre—comes to fruition, making her the youngest-ever executive producer on a big-budget movie. Little follows Jordan Sanders (Regina Hall), a hotheaded tech mogul known as much for her ruthless leadership style as for her killer wardrobe. But when she happens to cross a 13-year-old girl armed with literal Black Girl Magic, Sanders is transformed into an actual Girlboss. Martin plays the mini version of Sanders, who navigates this new reality—in a covetable pink pantsuit that the young actress "would totally wear"—with the help of her assistant April (Issa Rae). "Marsai is a perfect example of a young girl having creative ideas and anything-is-possible energy," says director Tina Gordon, who cowrote 2002's Drumline. Born Caila Marsai Martin, just outside Dallas, the burgeoning star has been performing since she learned to talk. At age two, Martin babbled along to Beyoncé's "Déjà Vu." At four, she covered "Halo," and by six, she was riffing to "Love on Top." Beyoncé was, and still is, her favorite singer. (They finally met at the 2016 White House Easter Egg Roll: "She smells like everything that smells good," she remembers.) When Martin was nine years old, her family moved from suburban Texas to Southern California. Within four months, their daughter had landed over a dozen national commercials and a role on a new ABC pilot, about an upper-middle-class black family in Los Angeles. Over 100 people auditioned for the role of Black-ish's Diane, but after Martin read lines with Miles Brown (already locked in as Diane's twin brother), the producing team sent everyone else home. They'd found their twins. "Immediately they felt like brother and sister," Barris says. When Martin approached him with the idea of reimagining the 1988 film Big for the current moment, "I was like, Stop! You got me," he says. "We talked about how black women have a hard time seeing themselves as children because they have to be adults so much of the time. We wanted the movie to show what you don't see about being a young black girl."  As the end of Black-ish's fifth season draws near, Martin is already looking ahead. She wants to do a live-action Marvel film and is diving into her own online beauty tutorials. Still, she obsesses over things typical for her age: Tyler, the Creator; her two-year-old sister; Gucci fanny packs; and the online comedy duo the Dolan Twins. ("I have a crush on them, but I'm not gonna say which one," she jokes.) As Little proves, she's a killer example of Generation Z's outcome-oriented optimism. Barris sums it up: "We are all going to be working for her one day." This article originally appeared in the April 2019 issue of ELLE.  |
| Who Did Beyoncé Date Before Jay-Z? - The Cheat Sheet Posted: 01 Mar 2019 12:00 AM PST The marriage of Beyoncé and Jay-Z is filled with a lot of important life lessons amid their enormous power in the entertainment industry. They've managed to work out a challenging union amid musical superstardom, faced infidelity head-on, and have three gifted children to raise. Through all of it, they've managed to emerge as a very grounded family. Much of this is thanks to the Carters all going on tour together so no one is ever apart. Despite this amazing life Beyoncé hath made, she did have a dating life before the era of Jay-Z. One of those relationships lasted for nine years. Beyoncé's dating life in high schoolIt's hard to believe Beyoncé is only 37 years old now after everything she's accomplished. She was in high school just less than 20 years ago, though it's there when she first started dating seriously. Lyndall Locke turned out to be her first boyfriend when they were barely 13 years old. Bey herself recounted this a few years ago in a rare mention of her past relationships. Locke has been interviewed a few times about his relationship with Beyoncé. They were a little young to be dating, but it lasted a lot longer than you think. Even so, Bey says they were never intimate and also never lived together. Bey was reportedly a little more mature than other girlsWhen Locke was interviewed by the media, he said Beyoncé was far more mature than other girls her age. This is apparently why they were able to start dating when she was barely a preteen. Once they started dating in 1994, no doubt even Bey didn't think she'd stay together with Locke until the early 2000s. Indeed, they did stay an item until then, only a short time before she became more serious with Jay-Z and had beautiful children together. The irony, though, is Locke reportedly revealed he cheated on Bey five times, which shows she's had to endure unfaithfulness more than once. For many, it might seem impossible any man would look at another woman with Beyoncé in your orbit. What is Lyndall Locke doing now?After being found by the media, Locke gave away what his ultimate destiny was. Back when he was dating Bey, he had no idea she'd become one of the most influential musical artists in the world. Still, he's said in interviews she was a control freak and was definitely pursuing fame. Locke found his own version of success by becoming a chef and starting a catering company. There's a lot of details about their ups and downs when they dated, and a lot of blame went to Bey's father. Most of you probably know she was close to her dad, and he helped her progress her show business career. Part of the reason behind Bey and Locke's split was due to her living on the road most of the time while in Destiny's Child. Plus, she was starting to see Jay-Z while rising in the music industry ranks. Does Locke still communicate with Beyoncé? Based on the above interviews with Locke, he says he no longer communicates with his former girlfriend. No doubt it would be a little awkward reconnecting when you have Jay-Z nearby. This isn't to say Locke doesn't wish they were still together had he not cheated on her. At least he doesn't have to feel envious when he sees what a happy family Beyoncé and Jay-Z have. Locke has a family of his own with kids and seems happy in his own life. You can't help but argue those not in the upper echelons of fame are likely happier than those who are. Nevertheless, it's almost eerie how Bey and Jay-Z have repaired things to a point where their family life seems like bliss amid the bizarre world of superstardom.  |
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