Co-curated by Mark Sealy, Bindi Vora and Lagos Studio Archives. Two new exhibitions at Autograph’s gallery in Hackney: Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire, exploring a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain, and Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos, capturing the rich style and joyous spirit of Lagos in the 1970s through portraiture.
Mariane Ibrahim. Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to present, a solo exhibition of new works by Carmen Neely entitled, chronic conditions. Chronic conditions offers a portal into Carmen Neely’s intimate world, where semantic threads intertwine her subjectivity with the broader global realities that are both thrilling and terrifying.
NXTHVN is thrilled to announce Awilda Sterling-Duprey: Aesthetics of dis-order, a solo presentation of works by NXTHVN’s visiting artist, Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Aesthetics of disorder is the first exhibition to focus on Sterling-Duprey’s exploration of abstraction from the 1970s to present.
Curated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this illustrated edition of The 1619 Project features seven chapters from the original book that lend themselves to beautiful, engaging visuals, that deepen the experience of the content. This exhibition includes original artworks by 10 Black artists which highlight themes of resistance and freedom.
by HAUSER & WIRTH News. ‘Barbara Chase-Riboud. Everytime A Knot is Undone, A God is Released’ is the first multimuseum exhibition of a single artist to be presented in Paris during their lifetime. On view across eight major Parisian institutions —Musée d’Orsay, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée du Louvre, Philharmonie de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet and Palais de Tokyo.
by Maxwell Rabb, Artsy. Donovan Johnson first set foot in Atlanta’s esteemed Bill Lowe Gallery at age 18. To this day, Johnson cites this moment as his “first true art experience.” Little did Johnson know that the visit would kickstart his decade-long association with the gallery, a pillar of Atlanta’s contemporary art world since it was founded in 1989.
by Richard Widdington, Artnet News. “Williams was arguably the most famous Black intellectual of the 18th century and alongside studies at Cambridge University had joined discussions of Newtonian physics. Most crucial was Halley’s theory that the trajectory of comets could be predicted based on Newton’s laws of motion and gravity.
Center for Black Visual Culture. Thank you for attending The Center for Black Visual Culture and For Freedoms exhibition opening, Where Do We Go From Here? The Four Freedoms Photographs, by Hank Willis Thomas (TSOA ’98) and Emily Shur (TSOA ’98), in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery (TSOA ’97).
Partial Film Screening and Talk. One Person, One Vote? is a documentary that takes an unprecedented look at the Electoral College, its origins from slavery and continued impact on American politics through the eyes of four presidential electors during the historic 2020 elections. Join Director Maximina Juson for an in depth look at the origins of the urgent and timely questions we’re grappling with today. Register below for the program and for a link to screen the film in full before the event.