DATE: July 1, 2009

Yinka Shonibare, MBE at The Newark Museum: Party Time: Re-Imagine America A Centennial Commission

Yinka Shonibare, MBE has been commissioned to create a site-specific work for The Newark Museum to celebrate the Museum's centennial anniversary. Set in the dining room of the historic Ballantine House, Party Time: Re-imagine America recreates a formal dinner party as it could have happened (but likely would not have) at the time of Jeannette and John Holme Ballantine, the prominent Newark brewing family for whom the house was originally built in 1885. Similar to our contemporary out-of-control financial situation where widening cracks in the system expose a wildly uneven distribution of wealth, Party Time: Re-Imagine America considers at its core the discrepancy of wealth generated by turn-of-the-century enterprise, where excess and self-indulgence are achieved through the subservience of others.

For more information, please visit the The Newark Museum website.