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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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Mexican artist Enrique Sebastian Carabajal
With constructive vocation, since the mid-60s began developing his sculptural language supporting their work with scientific disciplines such as mathematics and geometry, approaching the topology and crystallography. The work of Sebastian is generated to the time when artistic trends such as scientism, minimalism, op-art, pop art, etc. originate, expressed…
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Alfred Conteh, American Artist
Biography Alfred Amadu Conteh was born in 1975 in Fort Valley, Georgia. He attended Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he received a BFA. He received his MFA from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. His mother is African American and his father is from Sierra Leone, West Africa. Many…
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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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Gilded Age Women
There is a sizeable gap in the documentation of Black American history. So often, what we see of Black history is limited to slavery and the Civil War or the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. Record of African Americans during the Gilded Age – prospering African Americans – is noticeably…
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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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Augusta Savage – Our inspiration
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work. Augusta Savage Born Green Cove Springs, FL 1892 – died New York City March 1962 The career…
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Introducing Carl E. Moore
Protest and Fire by Carl E. Moore Carl E. Moore (b. Canton, MS) lives and works in Memphis, TN as an artist and designer. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Memphis College of Art where he received his BFA and MFA. Artist Statement My…
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Chandra Cox – Public artist in North Carolina
Chandra Cox is a practicing artist, image-maker who works in a range of mediums from oil, acrylic to digital media and glass. Professor Cox’s work has been presented in numerous museums and galleries around the country such as the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and the Museum of…
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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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More than a moment: Major survey of Black figuration opens at National Portrait Gallery London
Curator Ekow Eshun has brought together portraits from 22 leading artists, including Kerry James Marshall and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Stephen Smith 19 February 2024 Claudette Johnson’s Standing Figure with African Masks (2018) Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate. © Claudette Johnson The surge of interest in…
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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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Black Theaters in NYC, an almost forgotten history
Lincoln Theatre 58 W. 135th Street, New York, NY 10037 The Lincoln Theatre was a theater located on 135th Street near Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City. One early performer, around 1903, was Baby Florence, the child singer and dancer who grew up to be Florence Mills, the Broadway…
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Top Birds in West Harlem Parks
Top Birds in Morningside Park American Robin Black and White Warbler Black poll Warbler Cedar Waxwing Chimney Swift Common Grackle Dark-eyed Junco Double-crested Cormorant European Starling Gray Catbird Hermit Thrush Herring Gull Mallard Northern Parula Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Ruby Crowned Kinglet Tufted Titmouse Yellow-bellied sapsucker Yellow-rumped warbler Total…
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SFMOMA announces commission from internationally acclaimed Northern California-raised artist
Groundbreaking artist Kara Walker will be creating a site-specific commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Roberts Family Gallery, scheduled for debut in July 2024. On view free to the public and visible from Howard Street, the installation is to be the first work of art created specifically…
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Honoring the Movement
In 1983, Congressman William D. Ford (D-MI), chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and Rep. Conyers gave their support to Representative Katie B. Hall (D-IN) for chairman of the subcommittee that had primary jurisdiction over the MLK Holiday Bill. That same year, CBC member and freshman…
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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 presents its first Winter Exhibition — Curb Appeal on Gov Island
The West Harlem Art Fund is expanding their seasonal residency on Governors Island through Winter 2024. The first organization outside of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, to offer year-round public art with an indoor installation available by appointment only. This year marks our 25th anniversary, according to Executive Director Savona Bailey-McClain,…
