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:
Above: N.E.T. | Memory of Today, Memory of the Future | African Space Art Project, Paris | 2022 | © Frédérique Toulet This Week in African Art and Culture presents a bevy of exciting events.
This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by The Children’s Trust The Museum of Fine Arts Boston appoints Dr.
The Music of The World Games announces the addition of global superstar Lionel Richie as a featured performer at this year’s event.
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will celebrate the kickoff of the 29th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) at FLC from May 12 to 17.
This week in African art and culture, various stories of events across contemporary visual art, literature and music emerge.
This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by The Children’s Trust The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts names Stacey Johnson chief financial officer and Aswathi Zachariah general counsel.
Live Arts Miami (LAM) is proud to present singer/songwriter Leyla McCalla in the Florida premiere of Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever, a new multidisciplinary work co-commissioned by Live Arts Miami, debuting on Friday, May 6, at the Miami Theater Center.
The script submission deadline has been extended for the Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival, a collaboration between Penn Live Arts (PLA) and its 2022-23 season artist-in-residence, the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC).
Hammonds House Museum’s 2022 season is anchored in the idea of Pursuit. Defined as “the action of following or pursuing someone or something,” pursuit takes shape and manifests in different ways.
<em><strong>This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by <a href=”https://www.actorsplayhouse.org/young-talent-big-dreams-2022/”>The Children’s Trust</a></strong></em> Above:Air Jordan x Nina Chanel Abney | Photo:
For her debut exhibition with the gallery, Cassi Namoda (b. 1988, Maputo, Mozambique) presents a new series of paintings that were created in Cape Town, South Africa and in East Hampton, New York, where she currently lives and works.
Above: The sabre of Omar Tall is returned to Senegal by France in a restitution ceremony (Photo credit: © Cineteve) A unique art-history saga is coming to U.S.
This week in African art and culture, a celebrated Nigerian American artist known for his vibrant, colorful portraitures (including that of past United States President Barack Obama) this weekend gets to unveil new works at the Venice Biennale.
Above: Installation shot of Genevieve Gaignard’s Strange Fruit presented by Vielmetter Los Angeles. All Images courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles;
Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) include a masterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, the foremost French sculptor of the Second Empire (1852-1870);
Above: William O. Golding (American 1874-1943), Tug William F. McAuley, Atlantic Towing Co., Sav, GA, 1934 Pencil and crayon on paper, 9 x 12 in., Telfair Museums, Museum purchase, 2009.23 The sea has a way of asking, “what if?” What if William O.
Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens Opens April 28, 2022 Gagosian is pleased to present Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens, an exhibition of new works by Alexandria Smith at its Park &
Above: Najma Ahmed. Photo: Valentin B. Giacobetti This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by The Children’s Trust
This week in African art and culture, a new solo exhibition by a Ghanaian German artist has opened in Paris. In the wake of the thriving contemporary art scene’s expansion beyond Africa, a Cameroonian historian has joined renowned U.K.
