What's Newark Got To Do With It?

About What's Newark Got To Do With It?

A podcast, hosted by Roger C. Tucker III, that explores the cultural impact and life-long influences of Newark, NJ on artists, historians, authors, curators and other cultural thought leaders from/of the Brick City.

Publisher

Roger C. Tucker III

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 May 2019

Latest episode

19 Mar 2024

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Mar 2024

   Episode 13 • Gardy St. Fleur: Pushing the Culture

   My first question, at the beginning of any phone call to my good friend and colleague, Gardy St. Fleur, is “What are you up to?”. And he usually answers “I’m here doing my part.” His “part”, in his own words, is “pushing the culture”. That pretty much sums up the passion and commitment Gardy has for discovering, rediscovering and elevating BIPOC artists. I’ve always believed that art has the power to address and answer issues around social justice, equity and access. And you’ll hear, at the beginning of our conversation, how Gardy puts this belief front and center of his multi disciplined art practice. Gardy is a Haitian-American art advisor based in New York City. He was born in Haiti and moved to Brooklyn with his family when he was a child. His father collected work by Haitian artists and Gardy began buying art at the age of 14. Gardy is known for curating unique pieces of art from around the world for prestigious clients, as well as his own personal collection. He has advised athletes including basketball players Kyrie Irving, Courtney Lee, and Caris LeVert, as well as ballet star Misty Copeland. We first met at a New Year’s party that I gave almost 13 years ago. I’ve been fortunate to witness and benefit from Gardy’s professional journey in the art world ever since. So listen in on our conversation at the WhatsNewarkGotToDoWithIt.com Podcast, by clicking on the black bar at the beginning of this text, and get to know how Gardy continues, through his art advisory, art management and art collection practice, to navigate the art world on his own terms. One of the earliest artists that Gardy St. Fleur championed and whose work he collected, was that of Ionel Talpazan (born Ionel Pârvu). Talpazan was a Romanian self-taught outsider artist. He arrived in New York City where he became known in the late 1980s for his paintings of UFOs. He died in New York at the age of 60 on September 21, 2015. Phillips Auction House tapped Gardy St. Fleur to organize a sale-within-a-sale of the “The New Now” auction in 2021 titled “The Crossover” (gallery exhibition installation, middle photograph). Gardy (red hat) leading tour at the exhibition (photo below) It was comprised of 13 new works by emerging Black artists. “The Crossover” brought in just over $311,000, all of which was put toward initiatives in Haiti and New York run by Project Backboard, a Memphis-based nonprofit that rehabilitates public basketball courts and commissions artists (photograph above) to make work for these sites. St. Fleur is shown here (right) with artist William Villalongo (left) discussing one of his works of art with Caris LeVert, a former Nets guard, at the Susan Inglett Gallery in New York City. Early in his career St. Fleur immersed himself in all areas of the art world, such as taking on the studio manager responsibilities for Villalongo. Photo: Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times “The Front Lines'“ by artist Deborah Roberts. Gardy St. Fleur collaborated with Galerie Mitterrand in May 2023 to mount an exhibit of her work in Paris.

2. 

   2 Jan 2023

   Episode 12: LOLA FLASH Pictures The Pulse of Queer Space & Time

   Dome (detail), Lola Flash, 2019. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist © Lola Flash

3. 

   9 Nov 2021

   Episode 11: SOULEO: Showing Out in Harlem, Newark and Beyond

   Peter “Souleo” Wright curates entertaining and informative events, exhibitions, and cultural programs. His focus on education and amplifying underrepresented stories are paramount to his curatorial mission and practice.

4. 

   10 Jul 2021

   Episode 10: Kevin Maynor Is Creating Pulitzer Prize Winning Opera in Newark, NJ

   Declared as, "one of the very greatest bass voices of the century", Kevin Maynor has sung throughout the world in both opera houses and concert halls. Image: Kevin as The Masque in Trilogy Opera’s FIVE.

5. 

   17 Jun 2021

   Episode 09: Artist & Activist Emma Wilcox: Changing the Order of Things in Newark, NJ

   Emma Wilcox shares her unique view of art spaces and the overarching power of eminent domain. Image: Emma Wilcox, Art & Audience, TEDxNJIT, 2016

6. 

   30 May 2021

   Episode 08: Navindren Hodges, Second Generation Black Gallerist With Newark Origins, Takes The Global Lead

   Navindren Hodges, Bill Hodges Gallery Director , boasts the gallery’s collection ranges from 19th-century Black artists Henry Ossawa Tanner to modernist, abstraction icon Norman Lewis to contemporaries Willie Cole and Carrie Mae Weems. Image: Demetrius Oliver, Totem, 2004

7. 

   18 May 2021

   Episode 07: Artist and Curator Anonda Bell: Raising Civilization’s Radical Voice In Newark

   Anonda Bell is an Australian born, USA based, artist and curator. As the Director and Chief Curator of the Paul Robeson Galleries in Newark, NJ, she continues to make sure the “Radical Voices” in art are seen. Image: Anonda Bell, “Neither Shall You Touch It”, 2013-2014.

8. 

   4 May 2021

   Episode 06: Artist Victor Davson; Decolonizing Art Spaces in Newark, NJ

   Artist Victor Davson’s professional and charismatic leadership has, and continues to have after 35 years, a profound impact on the artistic landscape of Newark and the Tri-State region.

9. 

   6 Apr 2021

   Episode 05: Playwright Richard Wesley Shares The Black Arts Movement’s Newark Roots

   Award-winning playwright, Richard Wesley, shares how the 1970s Black Arts Movement in Newark inspired his contributions to theater, film and books over the past five decades. Image: Scene from his play “The Black Terror”

10. 

    28 Mar 2021

    Episode 04: Artist & Author, Nell Painter: Disturbing The Peace From Newark

    Join me in a lively conversation with Nell Painter to discover how this brilliant Newark transplant uses her artistic talents to “disturb the peace”. Image: Nell Painter, 3g. Motherwell in the Adirondacks 17, 2016

11. 

    13 Mar 2021

    Podcast Episode 03: Filmmaker Ernest Dickerson: Black To The Future

    Filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, directing Raised By Wolves in Cape Town, South Africa, shares how growing up in Newark, NJ continues to inform his filmmaking career. Image: Abubakar Salim in ‘Raised by Wolves’,

12. 

    29 May 2019

    Podcast Episode 01: Artist Willie Cole: Newark Is Always On My Mind

    Willie Cole, contemporary American sculptor, printer and conceptual and visual artist, shares how Newark informed his early art practice. Artwork: Willie Cole, Street Dragon.

13. 

    29 May 2019

    Podcast Episode 02: The Art Collector’s Daughter Interviews Her Dad

    Art advisor and art collector, Roger C. Tucker III, shares with his daughter, Ara, how growing up in Newark informed his evolving art practice. Artwork: George Sheffield, Facing Abstraction.

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