The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. In a multisensory exploration of nearly 150 years of artistic and cultural production—from the 19th century to the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the present day—the exhibition includes nearly 200 works of art in a wide range of media.

by Art Basel Editorial. What is American art? When walking the aisles of Art Basel Miami Beach, despite the plethora of extraordinary works on view, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a conclusive answer.

by Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian. After escaping civil war in Nigeria, the ‘outsider’ photographer moved to the UK to capture Black queer self-expression. Produced during a career of only six years, Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s photographs are a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain.

by Rachel L. Swarns, The NY Times. For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. But a growing body of research is challenging that narrative, documenting the significant role that white women played in the American slave trade.

Thank you for participating in the Migrations & Translation convening at NYU Paris, where visual artists, filmmakers, writers and scholars re-imagined experiences of migration. A recording will be available soon to engage in these historically important presentations that re-characterized movements of people.

Thank you for joining the CBVC as we welcomed For Freedoms Artist coalition to discuss their new monograph Where Do We Go From Here? published by Phaidon in conjunction with the exhibition Where Do We Go From Here: The Four Freedoms Photographs.

1943 – November 9, 2024. We honor pioneer Judith Jamison Judith Jamison. A graceful, long-limbed dancer who rose to international stardom in the 1970s, succeeded Alvin Ailey as the leader of his namesake troupe and helped sustain the company as a barrier-breaking force in modern dance.

March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024. We honor Quincy Jones, one of the most powerful forces in American popular music for more than half a century. Mr. Jones began his career as a jazz trumpeter and was later in great demand as an arranger, a composer of film music, and as a record producer.

May 11,1966 – October 17, 2024. We honor Alicia Henry, the US artist whose textile work delved into themes of the family, beauty, the body and identity. Faces and masks were preeminent in her work: Untitled, (13 female figures) (2019) depicts a vast, goddesslike Black female figure with a headdress of birds and a dress of traditional African textile; two silhouetted girls flank the figure.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Appoints Deborah Willis as Board Chair and Elects Johanna Burton, Paul Chan, and Kemi Ilesanmi as New Board Members.