American Masters announced the Visibility, Inclusion and Accessibility (VIA) Initiative, building upon American Masters’ commitment to presenting programming for, by and about disabled communities. The initiative, announced in honor of Disability Employment Awareness Month, will include Renegades, a new digital series about disabled cultural icons; an ...
Sam Pollard is the co-director and co-producer of Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes, a portrait of the inimitable drummer and composer Max Roach. A prolific filmmaker, Pollard has directed or produced several American Masters documentaries including: Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Got to Be Me, ...
On May 10, 2016, director Sam Pollard interviewed Billy Crystal about his admiration for and working relationship with Sammy Davis, Jr., who he would later impersonate on Saturday Night Live. Interview conducted for Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2019). Chapters: 00:00 - Crystal’s ...
I was never fortunate enough to see Max Roach in the flesh. Yet, I feel his presence in the air constantly. As a young teen, becoming aware of and falling in love with the Black American Music called jazz, Max Roach was one of the ...
In this excerpt from Black Journal originally released on April 27, 1970, drummer Max Roach and singer Abbey Lincoln perform at Norfolk State College in Virginia and share their thoughts on their roles as musicians. The husband and wife duo found it important to emphasize ...
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En 1917, José Clemente Orozco dejó México para encontrar un mejor lugar para hacer arte en Estados Unidos. En el camino, Orozco fue detenido en Laredo, Texas, donde los funcionarios objetaron muchas de sus pinturas y las consideraron “inmorales”.
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Cuando era un joven estudiante, José Clemente Orozco quedó cautivado por el trabajo del artista mexicano José Guadalupe Posada. Su labor como ilustrador avivó la imaginación de Orozco y lo “impulsó a llenar el papel con sus primeros pequeños dibujos.”
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Orozco pintó uno de los murales públicos más icónicos de México, que desafió directamente a instituciones veneradas. Su formidable pintura del Padre Hidalgo, el “George Washington de la Independencia Mexicana”, representaba al líder como un profeta empuñando una espada que “purificaba el mundo con derramamiento ...
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There’s a moment near the end of “Libra” that I can’t shake. It comes around the 3:35 mark, after a short drumroll silences the band, giving its leader Max Roach the floor. Then the drums hit like machine gun bullets, a raucous ratatat that’s rightfully ...
La vida de Orozco es una de las grandes historias del arte moderno, repleta de drama, adversidad y logros extraordinarios. Un prodigioso pintor de caballete, Orozco fue, antes que nada, un artista público cuyos grandes logros incluyen murales creados no para mecenas individuales, sino para ...
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