Schomburg Center. 100 celebrates the story of the Schomburg Center’s storied collections, which today number in the millions, and continue to inspire learners, seekers, and creators. 100 celebrates a century of committed collecting and dedicated stewardship by generations of Schomburg Center librarians, curators, and educators who have nurtured the creation of new knowledge.
HAUSER & WIRTH. For ‘Resilience of Scale,’ his first major solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, British artist Thomas J Price presents five towering bronze figures that amplify traditionally marginalized bodies and redress structures of hierarchy, inviting questions about who we chose to celebrate in art.
Hannah Traore Gallery. Curated by founder Hannah Traore, with the invaluable support of Gallery Manager Morgan Mitchell, Who? Me? assembles a bold range of self-portraits across painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media.
The School | Jack Shainman Gallery. Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present GENERAL CONDITIONS. Bringing together work by over two dozen artists working across a wide range of media and at scales both intimate and grand, the exhibition offers a sustained reflection on the social and political climate of our time by considering how we respond—individually and collectively—when many of the most basic components of public life can no longer be taken for granted.
Grand Central Art Center. A person is more important than anything else…, a five-channel video installation, is a profound social commentary created by artist Hank Willis Thomas. This compelling work, lasting 28.5 minutes, is driven by the powerful cadence and intonation of James Baldwin’s voice, weaving together audio, images, and video in a fluid-moving digital stream of consciousness.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics finds aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The exhibition and its catalogue are among the first to examine nearly a quarter century of production by Black artists.
The Phillips Collection. Essex Hemphill was a prominent Washington, DC poet, performer, editor, and activist whose work engaged themes of race, gender, sexuality, love, and community during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Take care of your blessings explores the interdisciplinary relationship between Hemphill’s writing—raw, politically charged, and deeply personal—and contemporary visual art.
PAFA, Fisher Brooks Gallery. This exhibition presents 20 years of work by New York-based artist William Villalongo, including figural and narrative paintings, works on paper, and sculpture that incorporate flocking, cut paper, and collage.
Centre d’art Ygrec-ENSAPC. Nicola Lo Calzo’s exhibition, Nego Fugido, Quilombola memories, offers a sensitive and committed immersion into a process of reaffirming freedom. Every year, in the Quilombola community [1] of Acupe, Brazil, the Nego Fugido takes place: a ritual performance that re-enacts the dehumanization of slavery and the struggle of enslaved subjects for emancipation.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. For nearly 30 years, artist Rashid Johnson has cultivated a diverse body of work that draws upon an array of disciplines such as history, philosophy, literature, and music. This major solo exhibition highlights Johnson’s role as a scholar of art history, a mediator of Black popular culture, and as a creative force in contemporary art.