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Harlem Sculpture Gardens presents Ukrainian culture and art to Morningside Park
Post-Tango by artist Mikhailo Levchenko, is a sculpture about the aftermath of human devastation. The state where one has to face unpleasant circumstances, where emotions may have passed, but the body still remembers the physical pain. It is about the search for form after destruction — about a dance turned into an architecture of survival. …
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens expands this summer to the Broadway corridor with two new important works
This summer, Harlem Sculpture Gardens will expand to reach residents along upper Broadway in Manhattan with the help of new partners. As part of a collaboration between the Beam Center, a youth-based organization, fabricator Gary Linares, and the Lewis Latimer House Museum, NYS Senator Cordell Cleare and the Broadway Mall Association sponsored the works, Trinity…
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Convergence on Governors Island
Artist Statement by Elizabeth Knowles Installation can be seen on Governors Island, Nolan Park, Building 10B/West Harlem Art Fund through August 31, 2025 Natural patterns inspire my work. Some are biological patterns atthe cellular level of organisms. Others are geological patternsfound in the earth’s natural landscapes. By working site-specifically with a variety of media in…
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Notable Women from Harlem
On Friday, June 6, 2025, NYC Department of Transportation in partnership with artist Fitgi Saint-Louis and the West Harlem Art Fund will unveil the sculp- ture “Aunties” on the 124th Street and Lenox Avenue median. The work presents three figures, each standing 6.5 feet high, 6 inches deep, and 16 inches wide. This sculpture is…
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Public Art in Harlem and Beyond
This Friday, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, panelists will discuss how contemporary presentation styles for public art affect urban communities like Harlem today. Among the panelists are Kendal Henry, Assistant Commissioner, Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and Harlem-based artists Fitgi Saint-Louis and Dianne Smith. The West Harlem Art Fund’s…
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Amoako Boafo is now at Gagosian London
I make paintings that allow me to celebrate where I come from and what I aspire to be, while sharing unique perspectives and understanding. —Amoako Boafo Gagosian is pleased to announce I Do Not Come to You by Chance, an exhibition of new work by Amoako Boafo. Titled after Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s 2009 novel, it marks…
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South African artist James Delaney
James Delaney is a multidisciplinary artist with a current focus on sculpture and art as a tool for placemaking. Standing at the intersection between art and landscape, James creates pieces that bring their surroundings into relief, highlighting how the spaces we inhabit, be they city streets, wild spaces or man-made parks, affect and are affected…
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Tribute exhibition for Denis Brihat (1928-2024)
is honored to present an online memorial exhibition for the celebrated French artist Denis Brihat, who passed away last month at the age of 96 in Bonnieux in the Luberon region of Provence, where he had lived for over sixty years. A pioneering figure in the history of photography, Brihat was one of the first to…
and National Foundation for Contemporary Art, Centre Pompidou, Denis Brihat, French artist, London; the Musée des Beaux Arts, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Marseille; and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MoMA; the Center for Creative Photography, Nailya Alexander Gallery, nature works, Neuchâtel; the Musée Cantini, Paris, photographer, photographic engraving, photographic paintings, printmaker, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival, Tucson; the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Botanical Drawings
As we begin to celebrate daylight savings time, we thought it would be great to note individuals who gently shared their love of nature. Francesca Anderson is a botanical artist who specializes in natural history drawings in pen and ink. Her illustrations have been featured in prominent scientific publications, field guides, as well as books…
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Moody Nolan
Moody and Associates was founded in 1982. The office’s first location was in Columbus, Moody’s hometown. Years later, Howard Nolan, an engineer, teamed up with Curt Moody to form Moody Nolan. That firm eventually grew into a massive enterprise with more than 350 employees and 12 different offices. In 2021, it was the recipient of The…
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The German Renaissance
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and sciences were influenced, notably by the spread of Renaissance humanism to the various German states and principalities.…
15th century Europe, Albrecht Dürer, and Tilman Riemenschneider., ans Baldung Grien, architecture, artistic movement, Christianity, cultural movement, drawings, engraving, German Renaissance, German thinkers, Germania, Hans Burgkmair, Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Holbein the Younger, humanism, Italian Renaissance, Johann Reuchlin, Konrad Celtis, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Matthias Grünewald, Northern Renaissancem, painted portraits, printmaking, Protestant Reformation, resistance movement, West Europe, woodcuts
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Serge Alain Nitegeka | Configurations in Black
Marianne Boesky Gallery 509 West 24th Street Through March 8, 2025 Deploying the visual language of minimalism and geometric abstraction, Serge Alain Nitegeka reappropriates modernism’s formal preoccupations with color, line, and space to examine the lingering effects—both personal and political—of forced migration. Drawing on his own history as a refugee, Nitegeka erects—at times quite literally—barriers,…
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Impacts on Modern Design — Fitgi Saint-Louis
Fitgi Saint-Louis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Harlem, NY. Her work considers the intertwined nature of identity, remembrance and community within African, American and Caribbean cultures. Appearing in paint, textiles and sculpture, her abstracted figures honor the multifaceted ancestry of the African diaspora. With a background in design, Saint-Louis utilizes form and color to…
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Impacts on Modern Design — Michele Oka Doner
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist and author whose work spans five decades. Her artwork is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Her artistic production encompasses sculpture, public art, prints, drawings, functional objects, artist books, costume and set design, video and…
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Wild about Florence
When Shuffle Along opened at the 63rd Street Music Hall on May 23, 1921, it marked the return of all-black musical shows to Broadway after nearly a decade-long silence. The last successful musical wholly written and performed by African Americans to be performed south of Harlem had been the George Walker–Bert Williams vehicle Bandanna Land in 1908. When Walker…
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Black “Land Artist” James Perkins
Rather than presenting raw earth as the art object, Perkins transforms nature into an art object in situ at his home and studio on Fire Island in New York. He refers to his works as “post-totem” structures, paintings and sculptures that conjure the ancestral spirit of his great grandmother’s Chickasaw tradition, and go further to…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens Returns in 2025
West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artist Equity Association are pleased to announce the second rendition of Harlem Sculpture Gardens (HSG), a large-scale outdoor exhibition, curated to foster joy and beauty within the Harlem community. Opening on May 2nd this exhibition runs until October 30, 2025. Sculpture and design works will be displayed in…
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Delonte Crossing 110th Street
West Harlem Art Fund in partnership with NY Artist Equity Association is seeking to present Coby Kennedy’s Delonte Crossing 110th Street this spring in Morningside Park. This is a bold work that will spark conversations about shaping identity. How do marginalized people define their own image and bring healing. ARTIST STATEMENT The core theme…
African American culture, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, Coby Kennedy, Delonte Crossing 110th Street, equestrian portraits, fiberglass, Harlem Sculpture Gardens, Jacques-Louis David, kevlar, Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand Saint-Bernard, Morningside Park, Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, West Harlem, West Harlem Art Fund
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Looking at Indoor Earthworks
Six piles of gravel reflected in twelve mirrors that make a corner on the floor, to be specific. It’s magical because Smithson has managed to create the illusion of space, within which he creates the illusion of objects.”Symmetrically duplicated by the mirrors, the fissures of cracked glass together with the dust from the gravel mar…
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Under the Radar Festival in Harlem
UNDER THE RADAR is New York City’s premier annual festival of experimental theater, featuring cutting-edge performances from around the world and across the U.S. The 20th edition of UTR will run from January 4-19, 2025 presenting over a dozen productions at various partner organizations across the city. UNDER THE RADAR connects with the city, the…
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