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Greg Tate Horus in Harlem
West Harlem hosted a mural unveiling and celebration of the visionarywriter, bandleader, and cultural theorist Gregory Stephen ‘Ionman’ Tate, whose work reshaped Black music and thought. The day featured a major new public artwork by acclaimed artist Brett Cook as well as live performances and from Melvin Gibbs for Honk NYC! and Burnt Sugar The…
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INTRODUCING SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER TONY GUM
Gum’s presentation, “Ode to She,” is a timely reflection on her own experience as a Xhosa woman. Her work is rooted in the tradition known as intonjane, where a young girl evolves physically and spiritually through the many stages of her native culture. In her young 20s, Gum is certainly a young artist on the…
West Harlem Art Fund 