The Africa Center In this poignant exhibition, Ethiopian-American photographer Yusuf Ahmed delves into the intricate dance between memory and erasure, asking: What endures, and what fades? Inviting friends and acquaintances with immigrant identities to respond to a deceptively simple prompt— What is the object you’ve held onto the longest?—Ahmed uncovers objects imbued with meaning: scissors, a childhood diary, a delicate vase, a Russian doll.
Marianne Boesky Gallery With the new work on view in Celestine, Hamilton retrains her lens from the earth to the sky, imagining the rich landscapes that permeate her visual language in the vertical, extending not from sea to sea, but from soil to stars.
An exceptionally fertile period for the incomparable James Baldwin, defined by his sojourn to a country that would allow him to gain critical distance from, and new perspectives on America, particularly its poisonous racism and homophobia.
Hannah Traore Gallery. Discrimi-NATION: Guerrilla Girls on Bias, Money, and Art, an exhibition by the Guerrilla Girls. The anonymous collective of feminist-activist artists will present a range of poster works. They use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.
The University of Arizona. Pronounced Love Over Rules; this exhibition showcases experimentation with mixed media and mass-produced imagery to highlight themes including social history and the battle for equality in platforms including journalism, photography, advertising and popular culture.
MoAD. Designs, artworks, and environments dedicated to the global necessity for Black people to cultivate domestic interiors not only as spaces of revolutionary action, but also of radical joy and revolutionary rest.
Jack Shainman Gallery. Space is the Place, highlighting the profound and visionary works of renowned artist Barkley L. Hendricks, curated by Elisabeth Sann. At the heart of this exhibition is the title itself, Space is the Place, which references the groundbreaking 1972 film by jazz composer and Afrofuturist icon, Sun Ra.
MoMA PS1. Jasmine Gregory’s first institutional exhibition in the US, features a focused selection of new works including a large-scale, site-specific installation. Extending her interest in the material histories of image-making and display, the exhibition considers transparency, fragmentation, and dissolution in relation to both artistic production and racial capitalism.
The Tamayo Gallery. The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center and Teatro LATEA in New York co-present Storied Lens, a selection of photographs created over 50 years by Puerto Rican artist Máximo Rafael Colón. The exhibition, part of the XIXth BORIMIX festival celebrating the agency and trailblazing role of Puerto Ricans in New York, is for the first time dedicated to the work of a single artist.