Galerie Carole Kvasnevski is proud to present 2 exhibitions, Gopal Dagnogo’s Still Life, and PATTERN expression a group show featuring Hélène Amouzou, Ibrahim Ballo, Mina Boromand, Justin Ebanda, Morgan Mahape, Zanele Muholi x Gavin Rajah, and Rezvan Zahedi. Still Life is an incisive commentary on our lifestyles and our representations of them. PATTERN expression celebrates art and creativity with photographs, paintings, beadworks, design, reflecting on our past and looking at a bright future.
Hanna Traore Gallery. Hannah Traore Gallery is pleased to present Aleluya, a solo exhibition by Jose Duran. Duran weaves opulent interiors with vibrant tropical botanicals to uncover the stories of the Caribbean under colonialism. The Dominican artist’s practice is informed by his multidisciplinary background in painting, design, and sculpture, as well as a commitment to historical research. This dazzling body of work invites viewers into Duran’s vivid imagination where fantasy and history convene.
Wilmer Jennings Gallery. Two Concurrent Photographic Exhibitions Featuring Iconic Music Figures of Jazz and Beyond Through the Lens of Mentor Frank Stewart and Mentee Petra Richterová. Sound of Light is a deeply personal visual tribute to the art of music and photography, based on Richterová’s 2022 monograph of the same name with text by the late Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Greg Tate. The Blues and Mean Reds is a rich collection of images spanning Frank Stewart’s 50+ year career immersed in the life of the African diaspora through the lens of blues and jazz.
by Jasmine Weber, HYPERALLERGIC. The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination. James Baldwin wrote of his dear friend Beauford Delaney that the painter was “the first walking, living proof, for me, that a black man could be an artist.
Current Issue, T136: Queer Uganda. T136 features a folio on Queer Uganda that paints a harrowing portrait of queer life under Museveni’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act in essays, short fiction, and poetry. In addition to the Queer Uganda folio, Frederick John Lamp brings us yet another dimension of Bayard Rustin’s genius in “Was Bayard Rustin the Most Important Collector of African Art in the 1950s?” which takes us on a breathtaking journey of art-detective work.
by Maya Pontone, HYPERALLERGIC. A Gustav Klimt portrait of a West African prince, long hidden away in a private collection, was displayed for the first time in nearly a century at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Presented by Austrian gallery Wienerroither and Kohlbacher, the two-foot-tall 1897 oil painting depicts Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuon, a member of the Ga (Osu) people from present-day Ghana.
by Melena Ryzik, The New York Times. The actress is building a community of artists, in downtown Manhattan. She endeavored to build Atelier Jolie into a hub for artists, makers, chefs, students and Broadway stars. The building has artistic pedigree: 57 Great Jones Street, once owned by Andy Warhol, and inhabited by Jean- Michel Basquiat.
by Commissioner. Every year Commissioner collaborates with an artist, in 2024 Carrington Ware was the season’s commissioned artist. Her time-based piece quite literally requires that we slow down and observe. Carrington’s work is especially poignant as Commissioner experiments with artists creating in time-based mediums, and ground in the possibilities offered by Black Rest—an underpinning value of their program alongside community partners NYU Center for Black Visual Culture.
Artist Harmonia Rosales interrogates the ways believers and dreamers re-imagine myth-making offering a unique lens on West African mythology. By weaving ancient tales of the Orisha pantheon with her ancestral knowledge, Rosales’ paintings insert the African deities she grew up with into narratives that span the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance.
Join us for the #PopLife40 virtual symposium, celebrating 40 years of Prince’s Around The World In A Day, The Family, and Sheila E.’s Romance 1600 on April 11-13, 2025 (Fri-Sun). Over 3 days, there will be 35+ speakers over 10 total sessions, featuring 13 presentations over 5 presentation panels, 3 roundtable discussions, and an integrated segment of the weekly What Did Prince Do This Week? Keynote speakers to be announced.