Netflix Announces Partnership With Barack and Michelle Obama

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series with Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service. The Obamas will produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features. These projects will be available to the 125 million...

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Becoming American opens in Seattle and San Juan Island National Historical Park

San Juan Island National Historical Park and satellite venues in Seattle, Washington Participating artists include: Dan Attoe, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Gretchen Frances Bennett, Matthew Brannon, Cat Clifford, Jasper Johns, Brian Jungen, Eyvind Kang, Duane Linklater, Lynne McCabe, Jeffry Mitchell, Lavar Munroe, Jenny Perlin, Pope L., Adrian Piper, R.H. Quaytman, Ruth Robbins, Aram Saroyan,...

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Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists 2018–19

The Queens Museum is pleased to announce its third QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists in New York City. Two visual artists will receive 20,000 USD each, professional development consultations, and close mentorship from QM staff members working toward an artist’s project. The fellowships will culminate in exhibitions at the Queens Museum in spring 2019...

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Next: Music by YoungArts Winner Isabel Vera

Above: 2018 YoungArts Winner in Voice Isabel Vera performing at Miami Theater Center. Photo by Jason Koerner. “The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) was established by Lin and Ted Arison to identify and nurture the most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts, and to assist them at a critical...

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The Black School x Kameelah Janan Rasheed Begins May 23

Above: Students attending a Freedom School, Mississippi, 1964. Photo: Ken Thompson. For the New Museum’s annual summer art and social justice residency and exhibition, the Black School (Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters) and Kameelah Janan Rasheed explore the past and future of black critical pedagogies. Within the Museum’s Department of Education and Public Engagement,...

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Call for applications RAW Académie Session 5 Begins May 17

Above: Otobong Nkanga, Carved to Flow – The Hand, 2017. Detail of installation view Carved to Flow – The Laboratory, Athens. Documenta 14. Chalk wall drawing and adobe sculpture, 470 x 400 cm. Photo: Wim van Dongen. What is RAW Académie? RAW Académie is an experimental residential programme for the research and study of artistic and...

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Keep a Third Eye Open for Amber Robles-Gordon’s Newest Show

Morton Fine Art, a gallery that is off to the side of the U Street Corridor in Washington D.C., fills in a niche for vibrant artists of color that are pushing boundaries and expectations on art and its potential. Mixed-media installation artist Amber Robles-Gordon‘s solo exhibition Third Eye Open is comprised of 8 assemblages produced...

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On Jaamil Olawale Kosoko at ArtEZ Studium Generale, Arnhem, NL by Adam Patterson

Above: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, #Negrophobia. Photo: Ian Douglas. These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through that darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and...

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Garden of Memory at Yves Saint Laurent

This exhibition has been conceived as a conversation between three artists: Etel Adnan, Simone Fattal, and Robert Wilson. It was inspired by their shared experiences, whether in Morocco, Lebanon, California or Paris. Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal spent their lives between Beirut, Sausalito (California) and Paris. Both artists visited Morocco numerous times in the 1970s...

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The Baltimore Museum Presents: The Necessity of Tomorrow(s) with Ta-Nehisi Coates on Afrofutures

Above:Ta-Nehisi Coates. Photo: Gabriella Demczuk. The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) hosts a conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Book Award winner, national correspondent for The Atlantic, and author of Marvel’s The Black Panther comic book series, on Thursday, May 17 from 7 to 10pm. The program is part of The Necessity of Tomorrow(s), the BMA’s...

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