EventsThe New Social Environment#454
And I Say, Brother Had A Very Good Day: Arthur Simms
Featuring Simms and Phong H. Bui
Monday, December 20, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Arthur Simms joins Rail Publisher & Artistic Director Phong H. Bui for a conversation on his exhibition at Martos Gallery. We conclude with a poetry reading by Chekwube Danladi.
In this Talk
Arthur Simms
A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Arthur Simms lives and works in Staten Island, New York. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including representing the country of Jamaica in the 49th Venice Biennial in 2001. Other venues include Musée International des Arts Modestes, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Neuberger Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, MoMA P.S.1, American Academy in Rome, and the Queens Museum. Numerous awards include the Rome Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Phong H. Bui
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨