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Reposted from @darrenwalker A groundbreaking exhibition “Entangled Pasts”at @royalacademyarts. Featuring an arresting installation by @tavaresstrachan “The First Supper (Galaxy Black)” in the courtyard of Burlington House (listen to the hustle and bustle of Piccadilly in the background). Bravo @axelruger @arthistorianbyday @ablackhistoryofart Sarah Lea, Prof. Cora Gilroy-Ware, Dr. Esther Chadwick on an inspiring and intelligent show!

#yinkashonibare #karawalker #johnakomfrah #hewlocke #issacjulien #lubaniahimid #soniaboyce #frankbowling #TheFirstSupper #WillTravelForArt #BlackGirlArtGeek

H/t @shansimp

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#Repost @trascapades ・・・ 🦹🏿‍♀️🦸🏿#ArtIsAWeapon @schomburgcenter's 9th Annual Black Comic Book Festival, Jan. 13-16, 2021. See full schedule and register for #SchomCom2021 @eventbrite www.schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com (link in their BIO). Reposted from @schomburgcenter Get ready for the Black Comic Book Festival! It’s back for a ninth year and reimagined as a four–day virtual celebration. Events include a tribute to actor @ChadwickBoseman, a workshop with illustrator Tim Fielder, the launch event of John Jennings's Megascope imprint, and more! Click on the link in our bio to register. #SchomCom2021 is from Jan. 13-16. #SchomburgCenter #BlackComicBooks #BlackIllustrators #VirtualFestivals #BlackComics #BlackSuperheroes #TraScapades #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_QSAVhqyb/?igshid=bqp6icdv7mhy

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#NewExhibition

AṢẸ: AFRO FREQUENCIES - an immersive, multimedia Afro-surrealist art experience featuring works by digital artist @vincefraser and spoken word artist @urucker - opens March 22, 2024 at @artechouse #NYC 📍439 W 15th Street

www.arttechhouse.com

🎥 reposted from @artechouse 🚨 ANNOUNCING #AseAfroFrequencies is coming next to #ARTECHOUSENYC. 👑✨

Inspired by ase, the Yoruba concept relating to our power to produce change, Ase: Afro Frequencies celebrates the Black experience through the perspectives of artist Vince Fraser and poet Ursula Rucker. Starting 3/22, tickets are available now through the link in our bio. #ARTECHOUSENYC #ARTECHOUSE

Tickets and Details: www.artechouse.com/program/ase-afro-frequencies-nyc/

Bold, beautiful, powerful; step into this vibrant Afrosurrealist exhibition, featuring the work of London-based Afro-surrealist digital artist Vince Fraser along with poetry and spoken word by ursula rucker.

The spirit of aṣẹ — a powerful affirmation and philosophical belief held by the Yoruba people of West Africa, meaning “so will it be” — reverberates throughout this vibrant and meditative exhibition. Everyone should experience this immersive story of resilience, cultural celebration, and the possibility of the future.

“This exhibit serves not only as art but as a call to action in many ways — to collaborate, to uplift one another, to learn and to progress.” — Essence

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ARTECHOUSE is the nation’s first innovative art organization dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology. As a pioneer in the field of experiential art, it creates, produces and presents innovative technology driven exhibitions, expanding the possibilities of art and how we experience it.

#AfroSurrealism #AseAfroFrequencies #ase #Yoruba #VinceFraser #UrsulaRucker #BlackArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks #AfroFuturism

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🎨⚖️#ArtIsAWeapon Congratulations to all the Gordon Parks Foundation Art & Social Justice Award honorees @kaepernick7 @mickalenethomas #MyrlieEversWilliams @aliciakeys @therealswizzz!

Reposted @gordonparksfoundation We are excited to announce the honorees at our annual Awards Dinner and Auction on MAY 21, 2024, held at Cipriani 42nd St. in NYC: Athlete and activist COLIN KAEPERNICK; acclaimed mixed-media artist MICKALENE THOMAS; civil rights activist and former Chairman of the NAACP, MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS; widow of civil rights activist MEDGAR EVERS. Additionally,;15-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actress ALICIA KEYS and Grammy Award-winning producer, rapper, and songwriter KASSEEM DEAN (aka SWIZZ BEATZ) will be recognized as Patrons of the Arts. We will also have a special tribute to RICHARD ROUNDTREE, who starred in Parks’s groundbreaking 1971 film SHAFT, highlighting the enduring cultural influence of the film on both cinema and music. Link to purchase tickets in bio.

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#GordonParksFoundationGala #GPF #Gala24 #ArtsandSocialJustice #AliciaKeys #SwizzBeatz #ColinKaepernick #RichardRoundtree #MyrlieEversWilliams #MickaleneThomas #Shaft #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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ᴡɪʟᴅ ꜱᴛʏʟᴇ 40

ᴄᴜʀᴀᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴄᴀʀʟᴏ ᴍᴄᴄᴏʀᴍɪᴄᴋ

closes at the @jeffreydeitchgallery this Saturday, January 13th with a special celebration featuring the legendary @therealgrandmastercaz from 6PM-8PM.

📍Jeffrey Deitch Gallery

18 ᴡᴏᴏꜱᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴛʀᴇᴇᴛ #NYC

Reposted from @jeffreydeitchgallery 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝟒𝟎, 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐤

This exhibition beings together over 20 artists to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Charlie Ahearn ( @twincharlie )’s seminal film ‘Wild Style’🔥

In the words of the curator Carlo McCormick-

“While ‘Wild Style 40’ is in many ways a celebration of the graffiti art form that emerged out of this time and starred in the movie, it is centered within a broader circle of participation, including key figures from Colab, who were also forging new kinds of urban art, artists who were major supporters and benefactors of graffiti, the photographers who not only captured this movement but embodied it, and a few who have somehow carried these traditions with an authenticity and ingenuity that goes beyond what hip hop sounds like or graffiti looks like today.”

Participating artist include-

Charlie Ahearn @twincharlie

John Ahearn @jahearnart

Janette Beckman @janettephoto

Fred Brathwaite (Fab 5 Freddy) @fab5freddy

Cathleen Campbell

Henry Chalfant @henrychalfant

Joe Conzo @joeconzo

Martha Cooper @marthacoopergram

Jane Dickson @janeinpeepland

Brian Donnelly (KAWS) @kaws

Chris Ellis (Daze) @dazeworldnyc

Sandra Fabara (Lady Pink) @ladypinknyc

Aaron Goodstone (Sharp)

Eric Haze @erichazenyc

John Matos (Crash) @crashone

Leonard McGurr (Futura) @futuradosmil

Osgemeos @osgemeos

Phase 2

Lee Quinones @leequinones

Rammellzee @therammellzee

Revolt @drrevoltrtw

Don White (Dondi)

Andrew Witten (Zephyr) @zephyrgraffiti

Martin Wong

Don't miss your chance to experience this electric show maxed out with pioneering artists before it closes this Saturday. The gallery is opened each day from 12-6PM.

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#wildstyle #carlomccormick #jeffreydeitch #HipHop #ForTheCulture #graffiti

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Artist: Nathaniel F. Austin @artby_nateaustin

Artwork: “Amiyah” (3ft. X 4ft.) acrylic on canvas

www.artbynfa.com

Image and caption reposted from @artby_nateaustin “Stand up straight and realize who you are. That you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight”

-Maya Angelou

I’ve found so much beauty in growth lately. Growth can be painful and uncomfortable but ultimately unavoidable. How then, can we make the most of it? By standing up and pressing through, knowing that there is power and beauty in the end result.

Children often are the greatest models for how we should approach growth. They are eager and excited for the next step in life. When you’re looking for inspiration look to them. Then, stand up straight.

#artoftheday #artoninstagram #paint #paintings #Blackartists #dopeartist #art #dopeblackart #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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CONGRATULATIONS BISA!

Reposted from @bisabutler No entertainment on earth can match a good story compellingly told

- #OctaviaButler (1947-2006)

This is history being made! This is the first time a portrait of an African American woman, created by an African American woman, curated by an African American woman and purchased by an African American collectors collective has been entered into the permanent collection of the #NationalPortraitGallery.

This story begins with me in 1993 reading Imago by Octavia Butler in the library at the National Portrait Gallery while I was a student at #HowardUniversity .

The library was a refuge of calm and a place where I could dream and aspire. The words of Octavia Butler allowed me to imagine a world beyond my reality- through the eyes of a Black woman.

It was serendipity to be asked by The New York Times to create a portrait for the cover of the Arts and Leisure section and the gorgeous photo by @alice_a2studio captivated me.

Then fate shined on me again when my Howard sister #RheaCombs, the chief curator at The National Portrait Gallery asked if the portrait was available.

I said yes immediately and she reached out to the Black Commissioners and Collectors group for financial support and as it goes the money was raised in 17 minutes!

I want to send a huge thank you to Curator Rhea Combs, and Director Kim Sajet. Thank you to the collective ; Taylor and Wemimo Abbey wemsabbey ; Sol Aponte @solaponte and Jennia Fredrique Aponte @jenniafredrique ; Mahari Y. Bailey @mahariyared, Esq.; Lyndon J. and Janine Sherman Barrois @srbarroislyndon ; Ingrid Best @ms_ibest ; Devin W. Blackburn, Esq.; George Fatheree @fathereeleeo and Azita Fatheree; Kenneth T. Little; Nike Opadiran; Ayesha D. Selden @ayeshaselden .

Thank you Sheryll Cashin and Marque Chambliss for hosting!

Thank you to my home team @johnnyjbutler_ and @ehubbs37 for always being there and giving 1000%. You are so appreciated.

**there is zero paint on this artwork

Patternmaster, 2022

Cotton, dutch wax,silk, wool, lace, beads and glitter vinyl

Quilted and appliquéd

24” x 30”

#bisabutler #quilting #artwork #octaviabutler #fiberart #BlackArtists

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“𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖, 𝕚𝕟 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕕.” - #ArtistActivist #FaithRinggold @faithringgold, my hero!

🎥 and caption reposted from @jeffreydeitchgallery 🤩 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 🤩

Growing up during the Harlem Renaissance, Faith Ringgold took inspiration from the city, her neighbors and the culture around her to create her 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓈𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 portfolio 🎶🎺🎨

Now, Ringgold’s works are in the 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 of museums like @guggenheim , @themuseumofmodernart and @whitneymuseum to name a few 😎😎

We are happy to share a clip from #Androiddevelopers showcasing Ringgold’s 𝒷𝓊𝒷𝒷𝓁𝓎 personality and 𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓃𝓊𝒾𝓉𝓎 (the video celebrates the artist’s mobile app, ‘Quiltuduko’) 💛🤳💛

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Excerpt from @AARP #DisruptAging:

"I have made so much art, and now Quiltuduko is my thing. It’s an art-making app that uses color and design — images instead of the number system of Sudoku. It’s a workout that requires memory and focus, and keeps that brain functioning — for young and old alike. Plus, it’s fun, and you have a piece of art to show for it. I have more than 60 diagrams now, and the themes are based on faces, angles, swirls. I can’t stop making them."

See the full story: www.aarp.org/disrupt-aging/video-disrupt-aging/info-2017/faith-ringgold-quiltuduko-video.html

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🖼Image: Say Her Name - Sandra Bland, 2020

🎨Artist: S.A.W. @iamsawart

📍Location: 75 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE Atlanta Ga

This mural memorializes Sandra Bland, who died while in police custody 8 years ago today (July 13, 2015). Thinking of her mother and sister, who continue their fight for #JusticeForSandraBland

Reposted from @naacp_ldf Today marks [eight] years since Sandra Bland’s death. Sandra Bland was a 28-year-old civil rights activist who was taken into custody by former Texas Trooper Brian Encinia for an alleged traffic violation. The encounter escalated when the Trooper tried to yank Sandra Bland out of her vehicle for smoking a cigarette and pointed a stun gun in her face threatening to “light her up.” Encinia had initially claimed that Bland assaulted him. He was ultimately charged with perjury since his own dash cam proved that to be untrue. Three days after the arrest, Sandra Bland was found hanging in a Waller County Jail cell. The officers who falsified monitoring logs and claimed they checked in on Bland an hour before she was found hanging were quietly moved to other law enforcement roles. What exactly happened to Sandra Bland still largely remains a mystery and no one has been held accountable for her death.

#SandraBland #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter #PublicArt #Mural #QueensMural #BlackGirlArtGeeks #NeverForget

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🔥 Reposted from @djreborn I love the opportunity to be in public discourse with fellow artists about our process, practice and praxis. Come check out the conversation about the brilliant @wangechistudio work and her connection to music with yours truly @sanfordbiggers @toschoon @sharpwhitebackground @margotnorton and maureenmahon Today May 20th 3pm

From #Afrobeat to #Afrofuturism, explore the unique combination of African diasporic music and #WangechiMutu’s artistic practice with Mutu x Music – an afternoon of conversations with curators and musicians on Saturday, May 20 at 3 p.m. at @newmuseum.

“Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” co-curators Vivian Crockett (@sharpwhitebackground) and Margot Norton (@margotnorton) will kick off the afternoon in conversation with Trevor Schoonmaker (@toschoon), Director of the Nasher Museum, to reflect on the twentieth anniversary of Mutu’s “Yo Mama,” a large-scale collage work celebrating the life and activism of Fela Kuti’s mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Scholar and catalog contributor Maureen Mahon will also moderate a panel discussion on the political charge of African and diasporic music genres from 1970s Afrobeat to contemporary Hip Hop, featuring artist Sanford Biggers (@sanfordbiggers) and musician DJ Reborn (@djreborn).

Event information and ticketing:

[https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1913/mutu-x-music-afrobeat-hip-hop-funk-and-the-art-of-wangechi-mutu]

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🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon #Artist: Tschabalala Self @tschabalalaself #Artwork: Red Room (2022) 🟥 • • • "The work is political because it's politicized; politicized bodies are featured in the work. I'm a political person because if I wasn't a political person, that would affect my safety and my well-being in the country. But that's not why I'm making the work. I'm making the work to leave a document of my experience, leave a document of the experience of people who are like me." -Tschabalala Self www.tschabalalaself.com • • Image reposted from the artist. #TschabalalaSelf #HarlemGirls #BlackBodies #BlackArtists #BlackWomen #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnW2ZreumKo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🎬 #ArtIsAWeapon #Artist: Glenn Hardy, Jr. @glennardo #Artwork: Untitled, 2022. Acrylic on canvas Image and caption reposted from Reposted from @platformart_com "Seeing Black people in the film industry behind the camera is important to sharing certain stories, so this piece was inspired by those film directors, artists and creatives that don’t normally get the spotlight, but are just as important to the message being shared." - #GlennHardyJr. __ Glenn Hardy, Jr., Untitled, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm) #Artists #BlackArtists #BlackFilmmakers #BlackCreatives #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQ9wCeO4G6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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❤️🖤💚#ArtIsAWeapon #Kwanzaa2022 DAY 2 #Kujichagulia Image and caption reposted from #artist @afranks3 - Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. . . Song for reflection: I am the Black Gold of the Sun, Rotary Connection & Minnie Riperton . . Thought for the day: Black, Daniel. The Coming. St. Martin’s Press, New York. 2015. pp 9-10. . . “We didn’t know we wouldn’t return. We simply believed some terrible calamity had befallen us, that our Gods had let tragedy come because we had not honored them. But we were wrong. We were warriors and hunters, poets and jali, farmers and soothsayers. We were magicians and healers, artisans and thinkers, writers and dancers. We were fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, cousins and kinsmen. We were lovers. And we were home. We loved the land and it loved us. We were black like the land, and kissed by the sun. We knew our strengths and our frailties, and we knew much needed improvement. But we were home.” #IAmTheBlackGoldOfTheSun #BlackHolidays #BlackCulture #SelfDetermination #BlackCreatives #BlackArtists #Blackness #TheComing #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CmsHZBjuEBq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🧡#ArtIsAWeapon #Artist: Bola Obatuyi @bolaobatuyi_art #Artwork: Bold and Beautiful ll • Reposted from @bolaobatuyi_art Don’t just exist, live. • • BIO VIA www.casildart.com @africanartfinder "Bola Obatuyi is a profound mixed media artist who truly brings her canvases to life using fabric and acrylic paint, often depicting the gentleness and the gift of femininity... Influenced by a range of artists, such as Oluwole Omofemi and Andy Warhol, Obatuyi’s artistic vision stems from her pre-occupation with women's bodies, shapes and feminine charm. Her practice strongly showcases the personal and political place of women in society whilst challenging socially constructed narratives about Black women." #textileartists #fabricart #mixedmediaartist #africanartists #artlover #bolaobatuyi_art #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnH1VthOjyT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #ExhibitClosing Y'all, RUN see @simoneyvetteleigh's exhibition at @matthewmarksgallery, and @kara_walker_official 's exhibition at @sikkemajenkins before they close tomorrow, December 21! Also, @lornasimpson 's exhibition at @hauserwirth is a must-see!

📷 Images 1-16, #SimoneLeigh

📷 Images 17-26, #KaraWalker, The High and Soft Laughter of the Nigger Wenches at Night, In the Colorless Light of Day

📷 Images 27-32, #LornaSimpson, Earth & Sky

Other exhibits that are closing tomorrow:

▪︎@eyesrevive Alvin Armstrong: Tie Breaker at @annazorinagallery

▪︎Diambe: honey honey honey at Kaufmann Repetto

▪︎Keith Haring: Black, White, and Red All Over at @paceprints

#ArtCrawl #GalleryHopping #BlackGirlArtGeeks #NYCExhibits #BlackArtists

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon @cultured_mag featured fearless artist @asherald and master musician @jonbatiste for its Winter 2024 Artists on Artists issue. Photo by @danascruggs.

Image and caption reposted from @cultured_mag This winter, CULTURED presents our inaugural Artists on Artists issue. An ode to unfettered creativity, bold experimentation, and collaboration, this edition includes a trio of cover conversations between figures—from filmmakers to painters and musicians—who are committed to illuminating our strange, uncertain moment...

It’s been a busy year for the history-making painter and musician. Amy Sherald just opened “American Sublime,” her mid-career survey and largest exhibition yet, at the @sfmoma; while Jon Batiste returned to his classical roots with his recent album “Beethoven Blues,” which presents modern renditions of the canonical composer’s works.

Despite their sweeping impacts on contemporary culture, both artists—shot by @danascruggs in Sherald’s New Jersey studio—are careful to protect the delicate filament, that “pure thing,” at the heart of their work. “When you’re in that flow state, sometimes you forget how you got to the end result. I feel like a vessel. I work hard so I can then be in the moment like a kid,” Batiste tells Sherald. “It’s like a trance,” the painter adds. “The ideas come, and I do what I’m told.”

To read the full conversation between Amy Sherald and Jon Batiste and [order] your copy of the Artists on Artists issue, head to the link in bio.

Amy wears a dress by @gabrielahearst, earrings by @davidyurman, and bracelets and a ring by @vancleefarpels. Jon wears a suit, shirt, and tie by @ysl; ring by @cartier; and shoes by @louboutinworld. Additional jewelry is musician’s own.

Editor-in-Chief: @sarahgharrelson

Photography: @danascruggs

Styling for Amy Sherald: @carlocatastrophe

Styling for Jon Batiste: @jasonrembert

Casting for Batiste: @specialprojectsmedia

Hair for Sherald: @myssmonique

Hair for Batiste: Jenna Robinson

Makeup for Sherald: @laramiemakeup with @dayone__studio

Grooming for Batiste: Jesse Lindholm

Production: @missdionnenyc

#AmySherald #JonBatiste #BlackArtists #CulturedMagazine #BlackGirlArtGeeks