Whitney Museum of American Art. Amy Sherald: American Sublime brings together some fifty paintings by one of the foremost artists of our time. In her first major museum survey, Amy Sherald (b. 1973, Columbus, Georgia; lives and works in the New York City area) presents work from 2007 to the present, from her poetic early portraits to the incisive and moving figure paintings for which she is best known.
Venus Over Manhattan. Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to present Elizabeth Colomba, the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition provides a comprehensive look at Colomba’s distinctive approach to figurative painting, featuring a selection of new and recent paintings and works on paper—most of which have never been shown publicly.
Mariane Ibrahim. Mariane Ibrahim is honored to present Lorraine O’Grady, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Paris and her second with the gallery. This special presentation, the first since O’Grady’s passing in December 2024, aims to celebrate the artist’s extraordinary legacy.
Reception & Artist in Conversation with Makeda Best, May 10, 2025. Wendel A. White’s inaugural exhibition, Schools for the Colored & Manifest, presents photographs carefully selected from a larger portfolio of the same name. Schools for the Colored looks at the physical structures – both standing and demolished – of segregated schools of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
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.