Some of the key tenets of jazz – collaboration, innovation, and improvisation – inform the unique programming at Ars Nova Workshop in Philadelphia. The organization was founded in 2000 to bring critical awareness to the work of influential but under-recognized jazz musicians. Ars Nova presents traditional concerts and documentary film screenings throughout the year. It also seeks innovative ways to recontextualize a musician’s body of work and offer a more expansive view of his or her career. In 2019, the organization will partner with Anthony Elms, Chief Curator of the ICA Philadelphia and John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery in Chicago, to present the first comprehensive look at the life and work of free jazz pioneer and self-taught visual artist, Milford Graves.
Milford Graves
2014
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University acquired the Andy Warhol Photography Archive from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2014. The collection of 3,600 contact sheets and corresponding negatives represents the complete range of Warhol’s black-and-white photographic practice from 1976 until his unexpected death in 1987.