This week in Black art and culture, our achievements were put under a microscope and it was debated whether they were earned or not.
I relish in art experiences that leave a lasting impact. Sites of Memory, the recent group show at UTA Artist Space in Beverly Hills, California, curated by Essence Harden, reminded me why I love art, particularly the current offerings of emerging artists of color who are channeling memory, history, and the possibilities of the future in the most interesting forms.
Miami writer and director Edson Jean’s first feature film, Ludi follows a young Haitian American immigrant who seeks opportunity and prosperity in Miami’s private health sector.
The Art Market 2021 reveals market shifts during a year of exceptional challenges with extraordinary growth of online sales The fifth edition of The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report is now available.
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.
Inaugurated in November 2020, the Noldor Artist Residency is Ghana’s first independent arts residency and fellowship program for contemporary African artists, located in Accra, Ghana.
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.
