On Friday, April 29, take the opportunity to spend the evening with acclaimed jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles and his Creole soul band at Miami’s Historic Lyric Theater.
How do we navigate the struggles of our interior worlds while also grappling with the socio-cultural and economic politics that shape the societies we live in?
As the year comes to an end, we reflect on the many great exhibitions that have featured work by both emerging and established Black artists from Promise, Witness, Remembrance curated by Alison Glenn early this year, a tribute to Breonna Taylor’s life featuring a portrait by Amy Sherald to Bisa Butler’s iconic textile presentation at the Art Institute of Chicago in early fall, and most recently, Amoako Boafo’s highly anticipated first museum solo exhibition:
If you look at any influencer’s home or even visual podcasts, you start to notice a very familiar abstract print: sometimes black and white, sometimes black, white and gold, but they use the same broad brush strokes of color on a simple white canvas.
Above: Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway | Movement of Meditation | oil, acrylic, wool on canvas | 2022 This week in African art and culture, we bring happenings from literature and contemporary art.
This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by The Children’s Trust This week in Black art and culture, Gray Gallery in New York and Chicago announce Citing Black Geographies exhibit.
Above: Black Box Men and Women | courtesy ArtCrawl Harlem Black Eye. Black Sheep. Black Ball. Black Cloud. Conceptual artist Michael Coppage lends a new understanding of how the word “black,” simply a color, connotes negativity in his community project exhibit, Black Box (July 23-Aug.
This Week in African Art and Culture brings exciting news mainly from the literary scene. A Zimbabwean author makes the Booker Prize shortlist;
This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by The Children’s Trust Angel Blue, a soprano, pulls out of an opera in Verona, Italy over the use of blackface in Aida.
Xavier Hufkens is proud to present the first European gallery retrospective dedicated to the work of Antiguan painter, sculptor, writer, philosopher, and true Renaissance man, Frank Walter (1926-2009).
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. welcome artists whose work appears in the exhibition Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive to join in conversation with leading writers and historians.
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) announces a riveting site-specific commission of monumental scale by Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa titled The Five Continents of All Our Desires.
Orange Barrel Media (OBM) is pleased to partner with artist Genevieve Gaignard and Atlanta-based independent curator Karen Comer Lowe on a largescale outdoor public art exhibition that explores the issues of race, class, and gender.
Above: Kamoinge Members (detail), 1973, Anthony Barboza. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Eric and Jeanette Lipman Fund, 2019.249. © Anthony Barboza
The Exhibition is the First Ever to Explore the Symbolism of the Guitar in American Art The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, Storied Strings:
The Propel Center, a first-of-its-kind ideation hub for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), today announced an exciting new collaboration with The Walt Disney Company designed to prepare promising young innovators for careers in the arts, media, entertainment and hospitality industries.
Nine leading American art museums will receive grants totaling more than $2 million from E.A. Michelson Philanthropy as part of its Vitality Arts Project for Art Museums initiative, to launch a new series of arts programs aimed at museum audiences who are 55 years of age and older.
Delou Africa is a non-profit organization that provides the most authentic African dance and musical performances in South Florida. This year marks 35 years of the organization displaying and teaching local African dance and drum.
Above: Odinakachi Okoroafor | The Land is Green | acrylic on canvas | 2022 This Week in African Art and Culture explores various diverse stories across the visual art and literary space.
Today Frieze revealed the names of the participating galleries of Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which will take place from October 12 to 16 in The Regent’s Park, London.
This week in African art and culture, we are leaning heavily into the literary scene. But first, tidbits from the visual art scene.
THIS WEEK IN BLACK ART AND CULTURE IS SPONSORED BY THE CHILDREN’S TRUST A TikTok member sparks a backlash over plagiarized Black Cowboy Paintings at the Guggenheim Bilbao.
ARTSPLIT, the pioneering art trading platform for African art, has announced its maiden MOCONA – a Modern and Contemporary Nigerian Arts Auction due to take place from 15 –
