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New Partnership
West Harlem Art Fund has formed a new partnership with NYCXDesign. During Design Week in mid-May, Harlem Sculpture Gardens will be a featured tour for NYC residents and the design community. Harlem Sculpture Gardens 2026 will be presented across six venues this year. The roster of artists are quite diverse. Additional partnerships are in development.…
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Animation First returning
View ProgramBuy Festival Pass Schedule Tuesday, February 3, 2026 – Sunday, February 8, 2026 This February, join us for the ninth edition of Animation First, the biggest animation festival in the United States! This year’s festival will run from Tuesday, February 3 through Sunday, February 8, and will present six feature-length films and eight short film programs, with a special…
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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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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 of Augusta Savage was fostered…
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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 a painter, leading to a…
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NANETTE CARTER REIMAGINE
Berry Campbell is pleased to present its first solo exhibition of work by Nanette Carter (b. 1954) since announcing representation in 2021. Nanette Carter creates collages, constructions, and installations that recall the lineage of African American quilt-making, while drawing on jazz, Japanese prints, Russian Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism, and other sources. She describes herself as…
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JAMES BALDWIN IS BACK — THANK GOD
Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity. Other novels included Giovanni’s Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like Notes of a Native Son…
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JACOB LAWRENCE TURNS 100
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life – if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas. Jacob Lawrence In honor of the centennial of…
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NINA CHANEL ABNEY’S NEW WORKS AT JACK SHAINMAN
Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Nina Chanel Abney’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Combining representation and abstraction, her work captures the frenetic pace of contemporary culture, broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history. The series of new paintings presented here explores the tumultuous relationships between exterior and interior,…
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WOMEN UNITE
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presented this summer The Time Is Now, a group exhibition featuring thirty-two artists whose work the gallery has consistently championed for three decades through thematic group exhibitions as well as multiple solo shows. The exhibition, which takes its title from a protest sign captured by Bettmann on Fifth Avenue…
Agnes Pelton, Alice Neel, Alice Trumball Mason, Alma Thomas, Ann Ryan, Barabara Chase-Riboud, Betye Saar, Charmion von Wiegand, Chelsea, Claire Falkenstein, Claire Zeisler, Dorothea Tanning, Elaine de Kooning, Florence Miller Pierce, Gertrude Greene, Grace Hartigan, Hannelore Baron, Irene Rice Pereira, Jay DeFeo, Joan Mitchell, Kay Sage, Lee Bontecou, Lee Krasner, Lee Lozano, Lenore Tawney, Louise Nevelson, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mary Bauermeister, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Nancy Grossman, NYC, Ruth Asawa, Yayoi Kusama
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NIGERIAN ARTIST TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA
Born in Nigeria, Toyin Ojih Odutola is a contemporary artist who focuses on the sociopolitical construct of skin color through her multimedia drawings. Her work explores her personal journey of having been born in Nigeria then moving and assimilating into American culture in conservative Alabama. “I’m doing black on black on black, trying to make it…
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FUNKTIONAL VIBRATIONS AT THE HUDSON YARDS STATION
The West Harlem Art Fund has presented Xenobia Bailey in an exhibition before. We are so happy for her and her stunning Glass Mosaic at the new Hudson Yards Station. Xenobia is an amazing fiber artist! Bailey’s artwork consists of majestic mosaics suspended above the main entrance of the new 34 St – Hudson Yards…
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RICHARD HUNT AMERICAN SCULPTOR
The Amazing Richard Hunt is in HARLEM !! BIO Richard Hunt (born September 12, 1935) is an internationally renowned sculptor. He was born in 1935 on Chicago’s South Side. From an early age he was interested in the arts,…
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SURREALISM AND DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
‘Artist Ruud van Empel (Breda, 1958) makes collages of self-made photos that he combines using Photoshop to create an idealized representation. In fact, with familiar elements he presents a world with which we are not acquainted. We have only the image that is dished up to us by Van Empel in the minutest detail. You…
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CALL FOR MUSIC ON STATE OF THE ARTS NYC
The Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund is now the Host & Producer for the new radio show State of the Arts NYC. We have been using as our musical theme Lovely Day by Bill Withers. And now, we will look to include original music from NYC artists. Please submit to our…
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STATE OF THE ARTS
Photo by Will Vaultz Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain NYC’ s creative industries have exploded over the last decade. But this growth has benefited just a few museums, galleries and auction houses. This special broadcast will discuss what is needed to sustain a vast array of performance and visual arts professionals jockeying high rents, high…
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TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
In 2005 and then again in 2008, the West Harlem Art Fund in partnership with the Office of the Manhattan Borough President and NYS Division of Coastal Resources collaborated on two studies for West Harlem and Northern Manhattan, Take me to the River. The process was heralded for its inclusiveness and many community stakeholders were…
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