Building on successful collaborations with Benin through LagosPhoto Festival 2023 and the Benin Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2024, the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) deepens artistic exchange in the country, reflecting on contemporary Identities in Africa And Its Diaspora.
This fall, the Saint Louis Art Museum will present “Narrative Wisdom and African Arts,” an exhibition that will bring together a rich variety of sculptures, textiles, works on paper, photography, painting and time-based media created by artists from across sub-Saharan Africa as well as contemporary African artists working globally.
The Frist Art Museum presents LaJuné McMillian: The Portal’s Keeper—Origins, an exhibition of multimedia projections, sculptural installations, and holographic self-portraits by the New York–based artist LaJuné McMillian. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view from September 27, 2024 through January 5, 2025.
On Friday, August 2nd, 2024, La Foundation for the Arts, proudly launched their YOUNG ARTISTS SERIES, designed and initiated by their current director Chantel Akworkor Thompson. The series, which awards a promising Ghanaian artist, 25 years or under, their debut solo exhibition, was marked by the opening of Land of…
Brooklyn's Tanya Weddemire Gallery is dedicated to celebrating emerging and established artists with a focus on thoughtful curation. This year, they will present "SUPERPOWERS" at the 2024 Art on Paper 10th Edition, featuring works by Gregory Saint Amand, Guy Stanley Philoche, and Serron Green.
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam presents the largest institutional survey to date of the late artist Noah Davis (1983-2015), on view from September 7, 2024, to January 5, 2025. Bringing together over 50 works spanning the artist’s complete oeuvre, this major touring exhibition will subsequently travel to the Barbican, London and…
We asked five artists what they feel is missing within our Black art communities and what they think the next generation should work towards establishing. Here is what they had to say:
DECEMBER 21ST by John Bias Josiah Jamison, 2022, Oil and silver leaf on canvas It is a blank screen with some finger smear marks and a light coat of dust. There are slight reflections of people on the blank screen that can scarcely be made out. Some people on the…
Opinion Editorial | Creative thinking needs a place in the classroom.
A look into the groundbreaking event and an interview with Black Art Expo founder and producer, Kyra Bond.