Join RLHS, IRHC, The Leagues, and Black Violets to celebrate the work of past, present, and future generations of Black Cinema at NYU. This annual Black History Month Short Film Festival will feature short films from NYU Film students & alum.

The IFA presents Series on Afro Asia with Jordache A. Ellapen. A native from South Africa, Ellapen is an anti-disciplinary Black studies scholar with expertise in the visual and performing arts cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora.This talk, examines the photographic practices of two South African artists, Lebohang Kganye and Ellapen’s own creative work, which are influenced by family photoarchives.

When the artist Minne Atairu began using AI to making glossy, Afrofuturist images, she discovered a dataset biased toward white women, unveiling the myth of the neutral algorithm. To demonstrate Silicon Valley’s ironclad control over these technologies, many artists have been using AI to disrupt this kind of Manichaean thinking, looking deeply into the mirror that algorithmic hegemony holds up to our unequal society.

Rare and vintage prints from Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage series and work made in exile from the U.S. arrive at Magnum Gallery for Part II of a three-country exhibition. Part II follows the exhibition’s debut in London in November and precedes the final leg in Cape Town this February. Each part of the exhibition is distinct, spotlighting different prints from Cole’s archive.

The Black Artists Archive is a new institution dedicated to preserving and celebrating the richness of Black art history and visual culture. The Archive has received initial seed funding of $125,000 from The Terra Foundation for American Art.

On February 18th, the Town Hall will celebrate James Baldwin’s centennial and the 60th anniversary of the Baldwin/Buckley Cambridge debate with the New York premiere of the chamber opera, THE TONGUE & THE LASH by Damien Sneed, composer/conductor and Karen Chilton, librettist.