This Week in Black Art and Culture, we mainly focus on the medium of audio. Two of the stories we share cover Black voices in media spaces typically run by non-Black people, and how they navigate through them to advocate for themselves.
This week: Noteworthy celebrities sign a letter supporting the LGBTQ+ community in Ghana whose center suddenly is shut down. Karon Davis makes her debut at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery New York with No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
Above: Ruben Natal SanMiguel, BRONX (Earring), Dye sublimation photograph on aluminum white matte finish, 2019, 24 x 20 x inches Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to present Love Letters for Harlem an exhibition of photographs by John Pinderhughes, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Jeffrey Henson Scales and Shawn Walker.
Above: Emma Amos. Baby, 1966. Oil on canvas, 46 1/2 × 51 in, 118.1 × 129.5 cm In the late Emma Amos’s recent retrospective, Emma Amos:
Eva Obodo’s Recent Works Opens at ko Gallery, Lagos On February 25, 2021, a new exhibition featuring recent works by Eva Obodo opened at ko Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.
Above:Black Kirby, Future Perfekt 2 – Cloud, Digital archival print on paper, 18 x 24 inches, courtesy of the Artist. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU recently launched its spring programming, celebrating topics that include Afrofuturism and the concept of cyclical time.
Get ready for Light the Night, when buildings in downtown Fort Lauderdale will come alive with spectacular video projection displays the first week of March.
This week in Black art: Accolades and celebrity acknowledgments abound for designer Telfar Clemens and youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman. Young designer Marine Serre breaks into the fashion scene.
At Dominic Chambers’ solo show in Pittsburgh, Like the Shapes of Clouds on Water, I met Ambrose Murray and Amani Lewis.
This week in Black art and culture, we cover Rihanna’s high-end fashion line. Her line, Fenty, with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton was paused, while her other clothing and cosmetic projects were elevated and amply funded in the same week.
