Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 sacrifice pushed modern art in…
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Black Potters from the South
The landmark exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 9, 2022. Focusing on the work of African American potters in the19th-century American South, in dialogue with contemporary artistic responses, the exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old Edgefield District, South…
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ADGER COWANS
Whether you’re using film, digital, print-making, it’s all about the emotion in the photograph or painting or whatever. Capturing those feelings that come through you—if you’re honest and true, it translates so that other people can feel them. Cowans is one the most influential artists of his generation. Adger Cowans (b. 1936) was one of…
Adger Cowans, American artist, American photographer, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Detroit Art Institute, Francis Ford Coppola, Gordon Parks, Harvard Fine Art Museum, Hollywood photographer, International Museum of Photography, James E. Lewis Museum, Life Magazine, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Sidney Lumet, Spike Lee., Still photographer, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Studio Museum of Harlem
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SAHEL: ART AND EMPIRES ON THE SHORES OF THE SAHARA
Self-governed for all but sixty-five years of French colonial rule, the peoples of the western Sahel formed a succession of storied empires and kingdoms, from ancient Ghana (ca. 300–1200), Mali (ca. 1230–1600), and Songhay (ca. 1464–1591) to Bamana Segu (ca. 1712–1861) and the Umarian state (ca. 1850–90). As these shifting centers of political power rose…
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THE FACADE COMMISSION BY WANGECHI MUTU
Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu has been selected to create sculptures for The Met’s Fifth Avenue facade niches—the first-ever such installation on the Museum’s historic exterior—inaugurating a new annual artist commission series. The works will be unveiled on September 9, 2019, and be on view through January 12, 2020. The museum’s facade niches have remained bare since its inception…
West Harlem Art Fund 