Migration & Translation

Thank you for participating in the Migrations & Translation convening at NYU Paris, where visual artists, filmmakers, writers and scholars re-imagined experiences of migration. A recording will be available soon to engage in these historically important presentations that re-characterized movements of people.

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Where Do We Go From Here? Book Launch

Thank you for joining the CBVC as we welcomed For Freedoms Artist coalition to discuss their new monograph Where Do We Go From Here? published by Phaidon in conjunction with the exhibition Where Do We Go From Here: The Four Freedoms Photographs.

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Judith Jamison

1943 – November 9, 2024. We honor pioneer Judith Jamison Judith Jamison. A graceful, long-limbed dancer who rose to international stardom in the 1970s, succeeded Alvin Ailey as the leader of his namesake troupe and helped sustain the company as a barrier-breaking force in modern dance.

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Quincy Jones

March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024. We honor Quincy Jones, one of the most powerful forces in American popular music for more than half a century. Mr. Jones began his career as a jazz trumpeter and was later in great demand as an arranger, a composer of film music, and as a record producer.

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Alicia Henry

May 11,1966 – October 17, 2024. We honor Alicia Henry, the US artist whose textile work delved into themes of the family, beauty, the body and identity. Faces and masks were preeminent in her work: Untitled, (13 female figures) (2019) depicts a vast, goddesslike Black female figure with a headdress of birds and a dress of traditional African textile; two silhouetted girls flank the figure.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Appoints Deborah Willis as Board Chair and Elects Johanna Burton, Paul Chan, and Kemi Ilesanmi as New Board Members.

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CBVC Program Director Dr. Joan Morgan tours The Black Archives Amsterdam

Thank you Black Archives for a thoughtful and generous tour. The Black Archives is a unique historical archive for inspiring conversations, activities and literature from Black and other perspectives that are often overlooked elsewhere. The Black Archives documents the history of black emancipation movements and individuals in the Netherlands and is managed by the New Urban Collective.

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Carrie Mae Weems awarded 2024 National Medal of Arts

ArtReview. Carrie Mae Weems has been awarded the 2024 National Medal of Arts by the the United States government. Established in 1984, the Medal is presented by the sitting US President to an artist or art patron ‘deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the United States.’ Weems is the first Black woman visual artist to be awarded.

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PhotoSaintGermain: Bayeté Ross Smith

In dialogue with the display States of (Un)dress: Delacroix and Clothing, the Musée Delacroix is participating in the latest edition of the PhotoSaintGermain festival, showing a selection of photographs by Bayeté Ross Smith. The American artist’s first exhibition in France is being jointly held at the Mougins Center of Photography and the Musée Delacroix.

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Jeffrey Gibson: POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT

A newly commissioned immersive installation that will occupy MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery and follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. Gibson is known for creating installations, performances, paintings, and sculpture that elevate

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