Edited by Najha Zigbi-Johnson. Mapping Malcolm continues the project of reinscribing Malcolm X’s memory and legacy in the present by exploring his commitment to community building and his articulation of a global power analysis as it continues to manifest across New York City today.
Edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis. The Vision & Justice Book Series, conceived by Vision & Justice founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and published by Aperture, is a groundbreaking endeavor designed to address past omissions and contribute to the ongoing work of building a richer, more racially inclusive story of lens-based practices.
Faith Ringgold, one of the leading artists of our generation— known for the power of her engagement with the Civil Rights struggle in the US, feminism, and beguilingly illustrated children’s books—has departed at age 93.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave New York, NY 10028, USA On view through September 15, 2024 At a time when photographs are primarily shared and saved digitally, many artists are returning to the physicality of snapshots in an album or pictures in an archive as a source of inspiration.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave New York, NY 10028, USA On view from February 25–July 28, 2024 In February 2024, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South.
Montclair Art Museum 3 S Mountain Ave Montclair, NJ 07042, USA On view February 9–June 23, 2024 The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) announces the grand opening of its landmark exhibition, Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM. With over 70 works in various mediums by 59 ground breaking artists, Century is the largest and most comprehensive show of its kind at MAM, underscoring a longtime commitment since the 1940s to the curation and appreciation of artworks by Black artists.