The Knockdown Center Presents Morir Soñando

“Hein Koh, Eyes Without a Face (detail) (2017). Acrylic, brass chain, felt, fiberfill, glitter, spandex, string, vinyl, 89” x 72” x 12”” “Knockdown Center is pleased to present Morir Soñando, a multimedia group exhibition on view June 22 – August 19, 2018. Artists Penn Eastburn, Valery Estabrook, Hein Koh, Joiri Minaya, Kristianne Molina, Onel Naar,...

Art

Black and Basel: Who made money at Art Basel Last Week

Above: Non-Orientable Nkansa II, 2017 by Ibrahim Mahama. White Cube, Installation, Mixed media. Courtesy of Art Basel/White Cube. Art Basel signature had quite a few artists from the African diaspora on view and pieces by black artist sold. Basel saw work by Barthelemy Toguo, Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kerry James Marshall, Nick Cave,...

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Art Basel Barkley Hendricks Barthelemy Toguo Black and Basel Ibrahim Mahama Jack Shaimain JACOLBY SATTERWHITE Kerry James Marhshall Mark Bradford NINA CHANEL ABNEY Sam Gilliam

Akademie der Künste Presents Colonial Repercussions in Berlin

Akademie der Künste in Berlin announces Angela Davis and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak together in discussion at the Colonial Repercussions event series. In the third symposium of the Colonial Repercussions event series, titled “Planetary Utopias – Hope, Desire, Imaginaries in a Post-Colonial World,“ Nikita Dhawan (Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies), together with these two...

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Akademie der Künste Berlin Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro

The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) and the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau Partner to Host Annual Community Day Event On Father’s Day

The 22nd American Black Film Festival (ABFF) will celebrate Father’s Day with their annual Community Day event, in partnership with the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau (GMCVB). This family-inspired celebration will take place on Sunday, June 17, 2018, at the historic Lyric Theater, located at 819 NW Second Ave, Miami, FL from 11 a.m....

Film

ABFF Overtown

Brooklyn’s AbunDance Academy of the Arts Presents “DREAM, AbunDantly!”

Above: L-R Kennedy Salley, Coco Tate, Zuri McGann, Brooke-Lynn Williams from DREAM, AbunDantly. AbunDance Academy of the Arts, an established non-profit arts organization dedicated to offering children and adults affordable dance, theater, and musical instruction at all levels, presents a new work, “DREAM, AbunDantly!”, a theatrical dance performance featuring students and seasoned Broadway artists on...

Performance

A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes A solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji at Framer Framed

Above: Film still of the Tale of the Copper Cross Garden by Sammy Baloji. Framer Framed presents A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes, the work of esteemed artist Sammy Baloji, whose practice deals with the cultural, social, architectural and industrial heritage of his home country the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Based in the...

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Congo Framer Framed Sammy Baloji

ICA Miami Announces Summer Intensive Program

Enroll now for ICA Miami’s Art + Research Center Summer Intensive, a two-week graduate-level education initiative exploring how urgent climate issues and anthropogenic effects apply pressure to contemporary cultural production. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) convenes the second annual Art + Research Center (A+RC) Summer Intensive, which aims to address the ways...

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Graduate Programs ICA Miami

MUCE SUMMER SERIES KICKS OFF WITH THREE MAJOR EVENTS: ARTWALK HOMESTEAD, MINIATURE GOLF IN LITTLE HAITI & 103.5 THE BEAT PAPA KEITH PEOPLE MATTER FESTIVAL

Miami Urban Contemporary Experience (MUCE) brings back its third annual MUCE SUMMER SERIES, a monthly art activation in heritage neighborhoods throughout South Florida’s tri-county area. This June, MUCE partners up with three major events to culturally infuse historic neighborhoods with artistic fun for the entire family. The first event, Art walk Homestead presented by the...

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Caribbean Market Days Little Haiti Cultural Complex MUCE 305 People Matter Festival

COREY DAMON BLACK TO DEBUT HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW NO TASTE IN MIAMI

Visual artist Corey Damon Black will debut his first unique exhibition featuring his own personal works with a preview on Friday, June 8 from 7-10 p.m., and open to the public June 9-15 from 12-7 p.m. in the Miami Design District’s Palm Court. NO TASTE will feature 23 works by Black, including his highly regarded...

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Tiona Nekkia McClodden selected as 2018–19 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism

Above: Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Photo by Texas Issaiah via Bard College The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College are pleased to announce that Tiona Nekkia McClodden has been selected as the fifth recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible...