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GOVERNORS ISLAND
The West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF) is returning to Governors Island in 2019 with two exhibitions that will spotlight human migration across Asia and then west from Africa to the Americas beginning June 1st. The organization is working with the Eli Klein Gallery based in the West Village, the Aicon Contemporary Art Gallery based in…
Aicon Contemporary Art Gallery, Behr 2019 Color of Year, Building 10, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Crossing the Sand, Eli Klein Gallery, Governors Island, Kiamesha Smalls, Kiran Rajagopolan, Nolan Park, Savona Bailey-McClain, Serengeti Teas & Spices, Tomo Mori, Trace of Our Journey, Traces, West Harlem Art Fund -
ODILI DONALD ODITA
Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. Odita has said, “Color in itself has the possibility of mirroring the complexity of the world as much as it has the potential for being distinct. The organization and patterning in the paintings…
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NEWS WORKS BY DERRICK ADAMS
Luxembourg & Dayan based in the Upper East Side is pleased to announce Interior Life, an exhibition of new works by artist Derrick Adams, curated by Francesco Bonami. Inspired by a tenet of Catholic theology that describes “a life which seeks God in every- thing,” Interior Life is a mediation on the intimate spaces…
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PALMER C. HAYDEN
Palmer Hayden, Harlem Renaissance artist and beyond Palmer Hayden’s birth was on November 9th 1890. He was an African American painter whose work became known during the Harlem Renaissance. Born Peyton Cole Hedgeman in Wide Water, Virginia, he was a prolific artist of his era. He depicted African American life, painting in both oils and…
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JAMES BALDWIN IS BACK — THANK GOD
Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity. Other novels included Giovanni’s Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like Notes of a Native Son…
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CONGO TALES
Filled with vibrant images that highlight the area’s magnificent flora and fauna, this photographic project, which was three years in the planning and execution, offers an exciting opportunity to learn about nature and the environment and it delivers an optimistic message about trust, cooperation, and conservation for the next generation of policy makers. “Congo Tales,”…
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THE HEAD & THE LOAD
The renowned artist William Kentridge from South Africa, synthesizes elements of his practice to conjure his grandest and most ambitious production to date, commissioned by the Armory. Kentridge works alongside long-time collaborator,Philip Miller—one of South Africa’s leading composers—whose powerful and evocative compositions offer a perfect complement to Kentridge’s feverishly imaginative work. A play on the…
Ann Masina, Ayanda Eleki, Bham Ntabeni, Catherine Meyburgh, Chris Waldo de Wet, Duško Marović, Grace Magubane, Gregory Maqoma, Greta Goiris, Hamilton Dlamini, Janus Fouche, Joanna Dudley, Julia Zenzie Burnham, Kim Gunning, Lindokuhle Thabede, Luc De Wit, Mapule Moloi, Mario Gotoh, Mark Grey, Mhlaba Buthelezi, Michael Atkinson, Mncedisi Shabangu, Motho Oa Batho, Ncokwane Lydia Manyama, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, N`Faly Kouyate, Park Avenue Armory, Phiip Miller, Sabine, Sipho Seroto, The Head and the Load, The Knights, Theunissen, Thulani Chauke, Thuthuka Sibisi, Tlale Makhene, Tshegofatso Moeng, Urs Schonebaum, Vincenzo Pasquariello, William Kentridge, Xolani Dlamini, Zana Marovic
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MALIK ROBERTS: BLK & BLUE
Blk & Blue explores the topic of mental illness in communities of color. Roberts’ work often spotlight contemporary social issues: by breaking down formal elements in his paintings, the artist creates compositions, which convey the complexities and tensions typically masked by his subjects’ physical appearance. Inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, for this exhibition, Roberts…
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NICK CAVE AT JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY FOR IF A TREE FALLS
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present If a Tree Falls, an exhibition of new work by Nick Cave, bookending the artist’s spring presentations in New York. If Weather or Not (Jack Shainman Gallery, May 17 – June 23, 2018) was the visual manifestation of states of mind, and The Let Go (Park Avenue Armory,…
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CHARLES WHITE AT MoMA
“ART MUST BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE STRUGGLE” “It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. … It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.” Over the course of his four-decade career, White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Americans—what his gallerist and, later, White himself described as “images of dignity”—was unwavering. Using…
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ED CLARK — A SURVEY
GALLERY REVIEW BY JOHN YAU I don’t think that I can begin to enumerate all the different ways that Ed Clark is important to the history of postwar American painting. Perhaps I should start by identifying some of the ways he has been left out. As Corinne Robins observed in a 1997 review, the seemingly inclusive chronicler…
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FOR OPACITY
Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn will be the first museum exhibition for Burgher and Quinn and it follows on the heels of Ojih Odutola’s successful 2017 New York debut at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the case of each artist, older drawings will be placed alongside work created…
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SOLO EXHIBITION BY SIMONE LEIGH AT LUHRING AUGUSTINE IN CHELSEA
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present recent sculptures and a new video work by Simone Leigh, marking her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Leigh’s practice is an object-based exploration of vernacular visual traditions from throughout the black diaspora and their intersection with constructions of black female subjectivity, black feminist discourse, histories of radical resistance,…
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT — FABIOLA JEAN-LOUIS
The West Harlem Art Fund is pleased to spotlight NYC artist Fabiola Jean-Louis and her Rewriting History Series. These photographs, where the subjects are women of color dressed in European period fashion, are beautifully staged. Embedded in each works are important messages that share a broader narrative. This artist series embodies more than just photographs…
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NOMINATING HARLEM’S LITTLE BLACKBIRD
American singer and dancer, a leading performer during the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s Florence Mills, known as the “Queen of Happiness” was one of the most successful entertainers of the 1920s. Many spoke about her enchanting qualities, but it was her singing that was most spellbinding. James Weldon Johnson’s assessment…
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DAYS END
New York based artist David Hammons (b. 1943) had his proposed public art project approved by the NYS Legislature this week.Day’s End would be located in Hudson River Park along the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula, directly across from the Museum. The project derives its inspiration and…
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THE MISSING, LOS DESAPARECIDOS
Displaying for the first time are new works by Jorge Luis Rodriguez. The Missing, Los Desaparecidos is a wall sculpture made out of papier mache with one hundred painted figures. The series presented by the West Harlem Art Fund on Governors Island for the exhibition Early Encounters, references Nature, history and the…
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TRIBAL ART COLLECTOR CLAMRA CELESTIN
The inspiration and influence that African art had on artists such as Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani shows its importance in the art world. — Clamra Celestin Tribal art collector Clamra Celestin shares, a high degree of sensitivity and education is needed to get people interested in collecting African tribal art. Africans have the sensitivity to…
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YANNIS DAVY GUIBINGA — AN ARTIST TO WATCH
Born in 1995, Yannis Davy Guibinga is a self-taught photographer from Libreville, Gabon who currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Focusing mostly on portraits, Yannis’ work is mostly centered around studying Blackness at large and its intersections with other social factors such as cultures and gender for instance. Yannis’ work focuses almost…
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STUART DAVIS
Stuart Davis (1892–1964) is one of the preeminent figures of American modernism. With a long career that stretched from the early twentieth century well into the postwar era, he brought a distinctively American accent to international modernism. Faced with the choice between realism and pure abstraction early in his career, Davis invented a vocabulary that…
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