Center for Black Visual Culture. The CBVC welcomes For Freedoms Artist coalition to discuss their new monograph ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Where Do We Go From Here: The Four Freedoms Photographs’ in the Cooper Square Gallery. This panel will be followed by a book signing.
Center for Black Visual Culture. Jan. 17, 1931 – Sep. 9, 2024. We honor James Earl Jones, who was a pioneer for black actors in the entertainment industry. Best known for his extensive and acclaimed roles on stage and screen, he is one of the few performers to achieve EGOT status(Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). Mr. Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985, honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2011.
Center for Black Visual Culture. by Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic. The Smithsonian Institution announced that a solo exhibition of Amy Sherald is set to arrive at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, exactly one year from now. Curated by Sarah Roberts, head of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Amy Sherald: American Sublime will be the largest survey of the artist’s practice in her career, including over 40 works spanning 2007 to today.
Center for Black Visual Culture. by Coley Gray, BmoreArt. The paths of Gordon Parks and James Baldwin regularly crisscrossed over the course of their lives. Despite differing artistic sensibilities and spheres of influence, Parks and Baldwin shared the same, staunch commitments to the civil rights struggle, using art in service of social justice, and deploying their gifts to reflect the Black American experience in all its diversity.
Center for Black Visual Culture. by Giancarlo Valentine, The New Yorker. For the past four decades, Cox, who was born in Jamaica and raised in the U.S., has been making photographs of Black women which cast them as complex protagonists. In a body of work that spans fine art and fashion photography, she has repurposed familiar imagery to broaden the scope of how we envision our deities and our histories.
Center for Black Visual Culture. Taft Museum of Art. Curated by Dr. Deborah Willis, Posing Beauty in African American Culture traces the relationship between African American beauty and visual culture from the 1890s to the present through documentary, commercial, and fine art photography. Documentary photographs and portraits of portraits of Black Americans—some famous, some just ordinary citizens—present the public face of African American beauty, while commercial photographs demonstrate how fashion and advertising have
Center for Black Visual Culture. Co-curated by Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake. Part of Getty’s region-wide initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide, Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice.
Center for Black Visual Culture. co-curated by Cameron Shaw, Executive Director, and Yael Lipschutz, independent curator. George Washington Carver was a pioneer of plant-based engineering and one of the nation’s earliest proponents of sustainable agriculture. A trained and practicing artist, Carver used sustainable materials such as peanut- and clay-derived dyes and paints in his many weavings and still-life paintings.
Center for Black Visual Culture. Candice Madey is pleased to announce an exhibition that pairs work from the 1980s by Darrel Ellis and Miguel Ferrando, examining the artists’ lifelong friendship and shared artistic influences. Merging art historical themes with deeply personal and cultural narratives,
Center for Black Visual Culture. by Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Kristian Conteras, Darnell L. Moore, Claudia Rankine, Ed Schad, Christine Y. Kim, Renée Mussai, Rachel Thomas. A major monograph chronicling Thomas’ vibrant, rhinestone-adorned paintings. Mickalene Thomas’ extensive body of work spans painting, collage, print, photography, video and immersive installations. Thomas’ art articulates a complex and empowering vision of womanhood while expanding on and upending common definitions of beauty, sexuality, celebrity and politics.