Category: New York City
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fitgi Saint Louis chosen as Community Commissions artist with West Harlem Art Fund
Fitgi Saint-Louis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Harlem, NY. Her work considers the layered and 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…
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Public Art X Climate Change
On Tuesday, September 24th, organizations representing Lower and Northern Manhattan will discuss resilience in the City. NYC’s open public spaces and parks have been adversely affected by excessive rain and heat. Trees are being compromised by soil erosion, causing some of them to fall over. We are experiencing pools of…
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New Venture
A collective of artists and creative professionals, HUE Design Group seeks to bring more design to open, public places. Bringing public art and design together, will create immersive experiences with compelling narratives. In 2024, our aim is to develop prototypes of benches, chairs, and accent pieces. We will fabricate compelling sculptures…
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Meet Carlos Mateu
Carlos Mateu, born and raised in Havana, Cuba, has been inspired by a rich culture of art and music since childhood. He studied fine arts at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Art in Havana, and worked as an artist and designer of international exhibitions. Since coming to the…
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Community Commissions
The West Harlem Art Fund has been selected to lead a community commission with NYC DOT. The approved site is 124th Street and Lenox Avenue in the median. Proposal applications are due June 30th. We want artist(s) to incorporate spirit of Harlem, its people and its very diverse history. Below…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens opens May 2nd
April 18, 2024–New York, New York: Harlem Sculpture Gardens is honored to announce the launch of its debut art project, curated to foster joy and beauty within our local community. Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition on May 02, 2024, and run through October 30, 2024.…
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Space Uptown 2024
AHL Foundation is pleased to announce the artists selected for Space Uptown 2024. Co-curated by Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director & Chief Curator, West Harlem Art Fund and Jiyoung Lee, Gallery Director, AHL Foundation. The artists for this year’s exhibition are Ara Ko, Carlos Mateu, Bishop McIndoe, Kai Oh and…
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Celebrating Mary Lovelace O’Neal at the Whitney
Mary Lovelace O’Neal (b. 1942; Jackson, MS) is featured in the upcoming Whitney Biennial—curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli—opening March 20. The three paintings by Lovelace O’Neal included in the exhibition—one from her Whales Fucking series (1979 – early 1980s), one from her Two Deserts, Three Winters series (1990s), and one from her newest…
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Firelei Báez in Residence
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to welcome Firelei Báez as our artist-in-residence in April 2024. Dominican-American artist Báez has achieved wide acclaim over the past decade for her immersive paintings, sculptures and installations that explore diasporic histories against the backdrop of colonial narratives and conventional ways of seeing, re-working…
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I have Always Worked Hard in America — Elizabeth Catlett
Artist Profile Elizabeth Catlett 1915 to 2012 The granddaughter of former slaves, Catlett was raised in Washington, D.C. Her father died before she was born and her mother held several jobs to raise three children. Refused admission to Carnegie Institute of Technology because of her race, Catlett enrolled at Howard…
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Levy Gorvy Dayan presents Abdoulaye Konaté: Lune bleue
Lévy Gorvy Dayan is thrilled to announce its first New York exhibition with Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté, opening January 16, 2024, at the gallery’s landmark Beaux-Arts-style townhouse. Abdoulaye Konaté: Lune bleue presents richly chromatic, monumental works that unite investigations of form and color with symbolic references drawn from a…
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Tribute to Renaissance artist William H. Johnson
Born 1901, Florence, South Carolina Died 1970, Central Islip, New York Born in a small South Carolina town, William H. Johnson left for New York at seventeen and enrolled at the National Academy of Design in 1921. Though he originally intended to become a cartoonist, he won acclaim as…
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From Drawings to Sculpture: The Harlem Renaissance to Now
MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK PANEL February 3, 2024, 3pm National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY, 10003 Early 20th-century Black artists primarily depicted portraits of people and daily life as they lived it. Fighting against false narratives, artists of this period strove to show their humanity. Their…
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West Harlem Art Fund Joins Fall Season With New Exhibit
New York, NY… West Harlem Art Fund will present their fall art exhibition UNDAUNTED: We Are Still Here on Governors Island in Nolan Park, Building 10B (NP10). Opening September 9th, six artists will show paintings of urban scenes, graffiti, collage, and mixed media works. This exhibition includes an immersive component…
