CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FIA RESIDENCIES 2021-22
Fogo Island Arts is seeking applications for its international residency program from artists working in a wide range of disciplines. Residencies will take place for six to eight weeks in 2021 and 2022.
Countdown Begins to Fort Lauderdale’s Premier Caribbean Food Festival – “The Taste the Islands Experience”
Above: L-R: Daniel Abbott, Tyrone Robertson, Calibe Thompson, Hugh “Chef Irie” Sinclair, and David I. Muir | Photography by RJ Deed Dozens of South Florida’s mainstream and Caribbean media were hosted on the grounds of History Fort Lauderdale on April 3rd, for the official media launch of The Taste the Islands Experience (#TTIX2019) event weekend.
Executive Director And Chief Curator, Gia M. Hamilton, To Lead New Orleans African American Museum of Art, History and, Culture (NOAAM) In Historic Treme, New Orleans
Above: Gia Hamilton by Jeremy Tauriac The New Orleans African American Museum of Art, History, and Culture (NOAAM) is delighted to announce the appointment of New Orleans Native and Treme resident Gia M.
Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations opened and it is Marvelous
December 6th marked an important day for Senegal and the African diaspora, as the Musée Civilisations Noires ( Museum of Black Civilization or MCN) opened to the world with sacred African artifacts and world-class Black art.
Random Thoughts on Random Acts (of Flyness)
There are so many people, places and things within Random Acts of Flyness, all seemingly coming straight from creator Terence Nance’s imagination.
Pageants of Grief (III): Finding God Elsewhere with serpentwithfeet by Adam Patterson
Above: serpentwithfeet, “soil,” album cover art, 2018. This essay is the third chapter of the series, “Pageants of Grief: Handling Loss in the works of Donald Glover, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko &
Pageants of Grief: Handling Loss in the works of Donald Glover, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko & serpentwithfeet by Adam Patterson
Sometimes is not a good thing to cry too long. My man is dead yes. But not all the crying in the world going to bring him back.
33rd Bienal de Sao Paulo nnounces 12 Individual Projects
As indicated by the title Affective Affinities—inspired by the novel Elective Affinities (1809), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and by the thesis On the affective nature of form in the work of art (1949), by Mário Pedrosa—the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, aims to promote the individual and attentive interaction between the visitor and the artworks instead of a single thematic framework.
New Scholarship on Famous Black Panthers Huey Newton Poster Revealed and Poignant Letters in Swann Galleries’ Printed & Manuscript African Americana Auction
Above: The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately from our Communities, a poster of Huey Newton, signed and inscribed, circa 1967.
MA Curating: 2-year, part-time, interdisciplinary, seminar-based, low-residency, international
Above: Simon Roy Christensen, score for sucking stones. Performance in Otobong Nkanga, Taste of a Stone. IKO, 2017. Photo: Kåre Viemose.