Alpert Award in the Arts, NYFA Prize, Village Voice Literary prize, Obie Award, Bessie Award
Website
www.carlhancockrux.com
Carl Hancock Rux (/ˈrʌks/) is an American writer and multidisciplinary artist, historian and social activist. The author of a collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta, a novel, Asphalt and the play Talk,.[1] Rux has been published as a contributing writer in numerous journals, catalogs, anthologies, and magazines including Interview magazine, Essence magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Iké Udé's aRude Magazine, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (founded by fellow art critics Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Salah Hassan) and American Theatre (magazine), among others. Rux's writings and monographs on visual art include essays on the work of conceptual artist Glenn Ligon ( I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School, edited by Frances Richards with a foreword by Lydia Matthews and introduction by Silvia Rocciolo and Erik Stark); the introduction for Nick Cave’s Until; and the Guggenheim Museum’s Carrie Mae Weems retrospective.
Carl Hancock Rux is also a musician, having recorded several albums, singles, and mixed tapes since the release of his Sony 550 cd, Rux Revue.[2] Rux's mixed media works (with frequent collaborator, visual artist and sculptor, Dianne Smith) have been included in the Uptown Triennale at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery;[3] as well as the Archer Aymes Retrospective, exploring the legacy of emancipation through an immersive art installation featuring a concert performance by mezzo soprano Alicia Hall Moran and pianist Aaron Diehl, presented as one component of a three-part series commemorating Park Avenue Armory[4] and at the Frieze Art Fair at London's Serpentine Gallery.[5]
Rux is co-artistic director of Mabou Mines,[6] associate artistic director at Harlem Stage The Gate House,[7] resident artist at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts where annually he conceives and stages its campus-wide Juneteenth festival,[8] multidisciplinary editor at The Massachusetts Review[9] and the former Head of the MFA Writing for Performance Program at CalArts where he continues to teach.[10] Mr. Rux lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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^"Wallach Art Gallery Presents a Visual Arts Tribute to Harlem's Sonic Experiences". Hyperallergic. 2023-06-23. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
^Rabinowitz, Chloe. "Park Avenue Armory to Present ARCHER AYMES LOST AND FOUND RETROSPECTIVE: A JUNETEENTH EXHIBITION". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
^Parker, Rianna Jade (2019-10-25). "'Black People Work from the Position of "We"': An Interview with Carrie Mae Weems". Frieze. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
CarlHancockRux (/ˈrʌks/) is an American writer and multidisciplinary artist, historian and social activist. The author of a collection of poetry, Pagan...
Rux Revue is the debut album by CarlHancockRux, released by Sony 550 Music which operated through Sony Music's Epic Records division. The album was produced...
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and experimental prose by CarlHancockRux, his first poetry collection. It won the 1999 Village Voice Literary Prize. Rux subsequently adapted one section...
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Feuchtersleben. In 2010, Blackamoor Angel, an opera with book and libretto by CarlHancockRux and music by Deidre Murray performed, in part, at Bard Spiegeltent...
School of Performing Arts in New York. His classmates included writer CarlHancockRux and gospel recording artist Desiree Coleman Jackson. He was offered...
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