by Emily Gaines Buchler, John Hopkins Magazine. Leslie King Hammond reflects on her life spent championing Black and women artists—and a 1988 exhibit that jolted the art world.
a group exhibition curated by Maty Sall. “The belief that different cultures are not separate but rather inherently interconnected, sharing past and present influences, is generally known as polyculturalism.
by Katherine Rosman, New York Times Trey Curtis and J. Quinton Johnson performing in “Hamilton,” and Vincent Jamal Hooper as Simba in “The Lion King.”
by Valentina Di Liscia, Hyperallergic The Brazilian artist weaves together archives, family albums, and records of Black suffering to suture a history of Amefricanas.
by M.H. Miller, Brendan Embser, Emmanuel Iduma and Lucy McKeon, New York Times A group of experts met to discuss the images that have best captured — and changed — the world since 1955.
HESSE FLATOW congratulates Adama Delphine Fawundu on being the first Artist in Residence at Prospect Park’s Lefferts Historic House Museum, and the opening of her large-scale installation Ancestral Whispers.
Curated by Deborah Willis, Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, and advertising.
Co-curated by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis, Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory presents contemporary art inspired by historical memory. The exhibition considers in comparative perspectives the historic and contemporary role photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath.
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) is delighted to announce Keisha Scarville as the winner of its inaugural Saltzman Prize, presented in cooperation with PHOTOFAIRS New York. The Saltzman Prize recognizes extraordinary achievement by an emerging photographer, one whose work has recently gained visibility and whose voice adds new perspectives to the discussion around photography and visual culture.