Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave New York, NY 10028, USA On view through September 15, 2024 At a time when photographs are primarily shared and saved digitally, many artists are returning to the physicality of snapshots in an album or pictures in an archive as a source of inspiration.

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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave New York, NY 10028, USA On view from February 25–July 28, 2024 In February 2024, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South.

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Montclair Art Museum Celebrates ‘Century: 100 Years of Black Art’

Montclair Art Museum 3 S Mountain Ave Montclair, NJ 07042, USA On view February 9–June 23, 2024 The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) announces the grand opening of its landmark exhibition, Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM. With over 70 works in various mediums by 59 ground breaking artists, Century is the largest and most comprehensive show of its kind at MAM, underscoring a longtime commitment since the 1940s to the curation and appreciation of artworks by Black artists.

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Dominic Chambers: Leave Room for the Wind

Lehmann Maupin Gallery 501 W 24th St New York, NY, 10011, USA On view through February 3, 2024 Chambers creates vibrant paintings that frequently portray scenes of leisure, joy, and quiet contemplation. In his newest body of work, Chambers continues his examination of the contemporary role of leisure—focusing on its relationship to nature—and explores how art can function as a mode for understanding, recontextualizing, or renegotiating one’s relationship to the world.

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NYU Tisch Alum, Tyler Mitchell, has two exhibits on view at Jack Shainman Gallery NYC until October 30, 2021

Opening reception for the exhibitions: Thursday, September 9th, from 6-8 PM at both gallery spaces. Jack Shainman Gallery is thrilled to present two exhibitions by Tyler Mitchell at our Chelsea locations, opening Thursday, September 9th from 6-8pm. These are Mitchell’s first solo exhibitions with the gallery and continue his legacy of making images that explore the histories of intimacy and meanings of home within Black communities. Dreaming in Real Time, on view at our 20th Street gallery, is a new series by Mitchell that visualizes scenes of peace, solitude and belonging for Black people in the pastoral American South. During the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mitchell was unable to see his family in his native state of Georgia. The distance and isolation led him to start dreaming of home. When he was able to return, he created new images of subjects in the Atlanta-metro area that consider historic and contemporary notions of refuge, repose and rootedness. …

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Wendel White Named 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in…

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the selection of the 2021 Robert…

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100 YEARS | 100 WOMEN CONVERSATION SERIES…

Join the Park Avenue Armory and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for a 100 YEARS | 100 WOMEN CONVERSATION SERIES, which..

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Wicked Flesh & Rekoning with Slavery.

Jennifer L Morgan talks to Jessica Marie Johnson about Wicked Flesh on her forthcoming book, Reckoning with Slavery…

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