N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients: Mombasa, Kenya, 1940–1980 – Isolde Brielmaier in conversation with Aruna D’Souza Location: Virtual Register for Event - Click Here Deputy Director of the New Museum and Guest Curator at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in NYC, author of the recently released I am Sparking: N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients: Mombasa, Kenya, 1940-1980 (Damiani, 2022), Isolde Brielmaier brings years of curatorial and academic experience to bear on the unseen trove of Parekh’s Kenyan studio portraits. These portraits not only express his unique vision, but also Mombasa’s lively identity. I Am Sparkling is the first ever overview of this historically significant photographer, his clientele and the temporal, geographical and cultural milieu in which he flourished. Rarely accessed until now, Parekh’s personal archive went out of circulation following his retirement to Britain in the late 1980s. This volume draws on this photographic archive along with...

Location: Riese Lounge at Tisch Gallery 721 Broadway, Ground Floor, NYC with livestream option Register for Event - Click Here In concert with YoungArts and in celebration of the exhibition, Home: Reimagining Interiority (on view until December 19, 2022 at the Tisch Gallery, New York, NY), we are pleased to present a reception and panel featuring artists and curators from the exhibition as they interrogate the very concept of home as an interior space of refuge and repose. The exhibit features photographic and text-based work by 20 cross-generational and interdisciplinary artists as they draw the viewer in to show the intimate and personal impact of larger social and political events that we are only beginning to understand. In what significant ways do these Black visual narratives respond to the dynamic cultural, political, social, and economic and intimate changes that have forced us to (re)interrogate previous conceptions of Blackness and home? What happens to the...

A book talk with author and CEO of the Armah Institute for Emotional Justice, Esther Armah + Dramatized reading Location: Kimmel Center, Room 405/406 at 60 Washington Square South, NYC, with livestream option for virtual attendees Register for Event - Click Here Amid a global racial reckoning, Esther Armah’s book, Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing, offers a much-needed language for racial healing and repair. Armah is the creator of Emotional Justice, a framework for racial healing shaped by her time as a journalist in South Africa, Ghana, London and New York. In her new book, Armah explains our historical racial healing model centers whiteness and therefore cannot serve our humanity. Armah introduces a new model that identifies our emotional work and requires we unlearn and dismantle the language of whiteness. Armah explains, dismantling the language of whiteness requires different work from different people. The book looks at key terms—Intimate Reckoning, Intimate Revolution,...

A double book talk + signing Location: WNYC's The GreeneSpace 44 Charlton Street New York, NY 10014 Register for Event - Click Here In concert with WNYC’s The Greene Space and in celebration of the books’ release, the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at the Institute of African American Affairs at NYU presents Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party and In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs, a book talk and signing featuring former Black Panther Party member Ericka Huggins and Regina Jennings, and photographers Stephen Shames and Jeffrey Henson Scales. The talk will be moderated by CBVC Director, University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Dr. Deborah Willis. Few photographers had the insider access Oakland native Jeffrey Henson Scales did around the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Capturing rare and intimate portraits of the movement’s leaders...