What is artistic freedom for? How can we express our full selves in times of danger? Hear Glenn Ligon and Solange Knowles discuss their work and their many selves, the expansiveness of the artist, and the multiplicity in us all. In the second season of the podcast with Hauser & Wirth, explore the line where left-brain meets right-brain; where logic ends and creativity begins—beyond the edge of reason. Hosted by Jeff Chang.

The AFRO American Newspaper emerged in 1892 in a post-Reconstruction era America, founded, financed and operated by entrepreneurs who had once been enslaved. Afro Charities — the organization that stewards the AFRO Archives, is proud to have first-hand access to the blueprints for our survival. The AFRO has persevered through Jim Crow, two World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and more. Afro Charities’ teacher and student trainings provide guidance on how to access the AFRO Archives remotely.

Pace Gallery. Pace is pleased to present Kinship of the Soul, Hank Willis Thomas’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first at Pace in London. The presentation showcases a new body of retroreflective collages that continue Thomas’s exploration of the histories of abstraction through the lenses of colonization, globalization, and appropriation, with reference to Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, and Henri Matisse. These works, which reveal latent images depending on their lighting and the viewer’s perspective, underscore Thomas’s interest in using wayfinding materials to illuminate often overlooked histories and narratives.

Hesse Flatow. HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce go-slow, Adama Delphine Fawundu’s second solo presentation with the gallery featuring a collaborative painting with the artist’s sister Frances Fawundu, photography, and mixed media works as part of her ongoing exploration of indigeneity, lineage, and its diasporic permutations. Mining her Mende, Krim, Bamileke, and Bubi origins, Fawundu draws from a personal archive of objects, images, conversations, and memories collected over her travels, which she assembles and transforms in discrete, yet interconnected bodies of work.

Tate Britain. Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. In a multisensory exploration of nearly 150 years of artistic and cultural production—from the 19th century to the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the present day—the exhibition includes nearly 200 works of art in a wide range of media.

by Art Basel Editorial. What is American art? When walking the aisles of Art Basel Miami Beach, despite the plethora of extraordinary works on view, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a conclusive answer.

by Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian. After escaping civil war in Nigeria, the ‘outsider’ photographer moved to the UK to capture Black queer self-expression. Produced during a career of only six years, Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s photographs are a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain.

by Rachel L. Swarns, The NY Times. For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. But a growing body of research is challenging that narrative, documenting the significant role that white women played in the American slave trade.