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.
Cab Calloway conducting his band,’ Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam.
Directed and written by Titus Kaphar, the semi-autobiographical Exhibiting Forgiveness stars André Holland as Tarrell Rodin, an accomplished painter whose life is upended by an unexpected reunion with his father, La’Ron (John Earl Jelks), a recovering addict who hopes to rebuild a relationship with his estranged son. Tarrell, now an active and loving father and husband, is skeptical despite the encouragement of his mother.
Picturing Black History uncovers untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally significant moments, as part of an ongoing collaborative effort between Getty Images, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, and the History Departments at The Ohio State and Miami Universities.
by Travis Diehl, New York Times. Our attention is being grabbed by advertisers, by people trying to point us to do something, or buy something, or vote for something,” Gottesman said. For Freedoms tries to co-opt those blaring ad spaces. As he put it, “That’s an essentially artistic question. How do you participate in flawed systems, of which you are critical?
Pioneer Works is proud to announce the return of its Visual Art & Music Residency with a cohort of 25 groundbreaking artists-in-residence, whose practices reflect a deep engagement with contemporary issues and experimental forms of expression.
On February 18, 2025, join Tricia Hersey, a New York Times Best-Selling Author and founder of The Nap Ministry, for an immersive reading from her new book We Will Rest! The Art of Escape. We Will Rest! is a thoughtful collection of meditations and poetry with storytelling and powerful original art.