Tonia Nneji Highlights PCOS Issues in Her New Exhibition: You May Enter Above: A work from Tonia Nneji’s new exhibition You May Enter, 2020 at Rele Gallery, Lagos Showing at Rele Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria, is You May Enter, a new body of work and a first solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Tonia Nneji.
The Apollo Theater announced today the line-up for Black LifeMatters: A Program of Short Films & Conversation, which launches the return of the innovative quarterly series Apollo Film Presents:
Raymond J. McGuire’s Eye is on 2021 Above: Raymond J. McGuire On Thursday, Oct. 15, Studio Museum in Harlem board Chairman Raymond J.
Akeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test, the first major solo presentation of artist, creative director, and stylist Akeem Smith. No Gyal Can Test is a deeply personal project that investigates the slippages between memory, archive, and history, and, in turn, the weight of visibility and representation.
With projects centered on racial justice, the pandemic and the events of 2020, 48 artists and art teachers today are sharing $500,000 as winners of The Ellies, Miami’s Visual Arts Awards.
This week in African art and culture, there are two solo exhibitions on view: one from an emerging artist who has gradually travelled through several group exhibitions to his first solo in Accra, and the other by an established artist who is continually leaving significant imprints of his strides in the contemporary art scene, showing in Paris.
Above: Al Loving, Untitled, 1976. Acrylic and paper collage. 53 × 30 inches (134.6 × 76.2 cm) Gray is pleased to present the group exhibition Reframing Minimalism:McArthur Binion and his Contemporaries in New York, 1973 – 1992.
This week in African art and culture, London is abuzz with various contemporary African art exhibitions and events, including two exciting exhibitions at Gallery Rosenfeld and Unit Gallery, and at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, the modern and contemporary African art auction by Bonhams and Sotheby’s (which is not included in this round-up, as we are awaiting the auction report).
This week in Black Art, we celebrate genius and the potential for new worlds by first taking a hard look at the past.
by Lisa Ramos Talamieka Brice is an award-winning artist, photographer and visual storyteller. She is inspired by her hometown of Kilmichael, Mississippi, and by artists Michelangelo, Shakespeare and Maya Angelou.
