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Artist Profile: Nadia Wolff
Nadia Wolff is currently in a dual enrollment academic program with RISD and Brown University. The artist is focused in Africana Studies at Brown has brought the artist into contact with professors that are helping the artist formulate the intellectual foundation of the artist’s practice.
HIDDEN GEMS: A Blind Date for Artists and Collectors by Dominique Clayton
The exterior during the INCOGNITO benefit art sale at the Institute of Contemporary Art on September 8, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.
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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.
In the Garden alone with Ebony G. Patterson by Daniel Dunson
Above: Ebony G. Patterson. Untitled Species VIII (Ruff) . . . , 2012. Mixed media on paper, 65 3/4 x 50 inches.
Call for applications: Studio Arts MFA program
Master of Fine Arts degree program at UMass Amherst is a tuition-free, three-year immersive course of study that provides students with a platform for critical engagement with their work.
Digital Imaginaries – Africas in Production
Above: Isaac Kariuki, Weaponise The Internet for OOMK, 2017. © Courtesy the artist. Graphic design: The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger, Alexander Papoli-Barawati.
Power of Women by Ayodeji Rotinwa
When I asked Awa Ndiaye Samb, curator of the soon-to-open Museum of Black Civilization (MBC) Dakar, whether it was usual in Senegal that the curatorial team of such an institution, the first of its kind, was predominantly led by women, her response was brusque.
AfriCOBRA: A Curatorial Conversation with Jeffreen Hayes by Daniel Dunson
The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) will present a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the founding of AfriCOBRA – the black artist collective that defined the visual aesthetic of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Black and Basel 2018
When Art Basel arrived in Miami Beach in 2001, collectors, jet-setters, visual artists, curators and administrators, and lovers of all-things-cultural on South Beach, flooded the area and satellite locations.
YoungArts Honoree, Choreographer Camille A. Brown Talks About Creating Her Career
The National YoungArts Foundation has launched many young people to the career of their dreams. Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, Billy Porter, and Judith Hill have all been winners after the competition ended.
Cotton: The Soft, Dangerous Beauty of the Past
Through Jan. 21, The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) will open its newest fall exhibition, “Cotton: The Soft, Dangerous Beauty of the Past.” The exhibit, which features 35 medium size, to large-scale photographs, installations, and altarpieces by Philadelphia based artist John E.
Fondazione Prada presents “The Black Image Corporation”, Conceived by Theaster Gates
Above: “The Black Image Corporation”, a project by Theaster Gates. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti Fondazione Prada presents “The Black Image Corporation”, an exhibition conceived by Theaster Gates, through 14 January 2019 at the Osservatorio venue in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan.
