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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.