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Additional works present oblique references to racial violence, such as Jack Whitten’s abstract tribute to Malcolm X, made in response to the activist's assassination, or Melvin Edwards’s contorted metal sculptures. (123 x 128 x 13.5 cm). The museum is open Thursday – Sunday (Sundays free). © Frank Bowling. Frank Bowling (American, born 1936). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Frank Bowling’s work drew from Color Field painting of the 1940s and 1950s, yet maintained representational images. (Digital image: © Whitney Museum, N.Y.). You'll see blueprints and architecture models that illustrate the club’s innovative development and creation and documentation of extravagant themed parties for its thirty-three month run. Inspired in part by Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist assemblages, here she incorporated a kitchen notepad holder in the form of a Black female figure. (27.9 x 35.6 cm). Carolyn Lawrence (American, born 1940). The work portrays “a booming postwar youth culture that tapped into global psychedelia” that reigned in the 1960s. Mars Dust, 1972. New York City has tons of things going for it, from incredible buildings to breathtaking parks. Saar was appalled by racist depictions she found on everyday objects at flea markets and in curio shops. "The Lotus Effect" at the Rubin Museum of Art, The Met is opening the largest Michelangelo exhibition in its history, Check out these photos from the Mummies exhibition at American Museum of Natural History. Here’s an interesting video about Weeksville: A great online resource for learning about NYC’s Black history is the MAPP website, a project by Columbia University that explores the community’s rich legacy. I love that you did this feature. Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Dan Johnson’s Surprise, 1969.

Couple Walking, 1979. In addition to the research library and exhibits, the Center hosts events including discussions, theater and … (Photo: Benjamin Blackwell. And if all that exploring works up an appetite, be sure to check our list of great Harlem dining. There are so many interesting events, who has enough time?

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power is organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, and The Broad, Los Angeles, and curated by Mark Godfrey, Senior Curator, International Art, and Zoe Whitley, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. (Photo: Michael Tropea), Faith Ringgold (American, born 1930). Continents emerge from and disappear into color; oceans and rivers are combined with pools and trails of liquid paint. Here are some questions visitors asked us during their visit to this exhibition. Perhaps Betye Saar’s best-known work, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima juxtaposes radical Black Nationalist imagery of weapons, a raised fist, and African kente cloth with Aunt Jemima, the Southern “mammy” recognized as the face of the best-selling pancake mix and a stereotype of smiling, docile servitude.

Apollo Theater – the landmark theater that launched the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Jimmy Hendrix, and the Jackson Five to name just a few. © 2020 Time Out America LLC and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. Audience members are selected every Monday! Styling: Black Expression, Rebellion, and Joy Through Fashion, currently on view until October 29, is organized into three themes: style as a creative expression, a rebellion against oppression and a source of joy.It was curated by Souleo and done in partnership with Long Gallery Harlem, a creative forum for under-represented artists. The theater will host a free Open House February 21, 12-5pm, including performances and workshops. Including critics guide to the best art in New York and the latest art reviews. In addition to concerts, the raucous Amateur Night is back February 18. Black artists across the country worked in communities, in collectives, and individually to create a range of art responsive to the moment—including figurative and abstract painting, prints, and photography; assemblage and sculpture; and performance. Also check out their exhibition Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom and a replica of their rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. This exhibition brings together for the first time the excitingly disparate practices of more than sixty Black artists from this important moment, offering an unparalleled opportunity to see their extraordinary works side by side. Central Park’s Arsenal – NYC Parks presents The Migration, a exhibition featuring works by more than 20 artists on the Great Migration and its impact. At age eighty, she became the first African American woman to have a solo show there. Studio Museum in Harlem – Located on historic 125th St., this museum showcases works by artists of American descent. Ringgold first studied printmaking at the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School founded by Amiri Baraka. Courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Montague | The Wedge Collection, Toronto.

Many of the over 150 artworks in the exhibition directly address the unjust social conditions facing Black Americans, such as Faith Ringgold’s painting featuring a “bleeding” flag and Emory Douglas’s graphic images of beleaguered Black city life. Collection of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (selected by The Committee for the Acquisition of Afro-American Art).

Through photography and media that brought Studio 54 to global fame, the exhibition contains more than 600 objects, from fashion design, drawings, paintings, film, and music to décor and extensive archives, to showcase the excitement that swirled around the nightclub. Huge dust storms on the planet, which initially prevented the relay of images back to Earth, inspired her to make this work. African Burial Ground – this Lower Manhattan site is the resting place of more than 15,000 free and enslaved Africans who were buried during the 17th & 18th Century. African Americans have been an integral part of NYC since it’s founding. Highlights include music by Bilal and Water Seed; screenings of Black Enuf, The Peculiar Kind and Soul Food Junkies; and discussions with Kim Drew, founder of the blog Black Contemporary Art, and renowned spoken-word artist J. Ivy. Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free, 1972. Blood (Donald Formey), 1975. Courtesy of the artist. Try another? Discover the best art galleries and art exhibitions in NYC.

Unknown American makers and Daisy Studio (American, active 1940s). (175.9 x 145.1 cm). During this period, which lasted roughly from the onset of World War I until the 1960s, some 6 million African Americans moved north and west to escape the racial segregation and discrimination still prevalent well after the end of the Civil War. Acrylic on canvas, 116 x 1041/8 in.

Studio Portraits, 1940s–50s. Often called the “Black Capital of America,” Harlem is unquestionably the city’s most historic center of Black culture and history. I saw famous Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, and John Singer Sargent paintings, a photograph of Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon and a 1960s mod dress from Yves Saint Laurent, religious art like an ornate Hebrew Bible from the 1300s, antiquities from around the globe such as an Egyptian statue of Hatshepsut and a Neo-Hittite decorative stone slab, and so much more. (274.3 x 213.4 cm). Barkley Hendricks (American, 1945–2017). Ms. African American, Culture, Harlem, history, New York City, NYC.

200 Eastern Parkway Weeksville Heritage Center – Weeksville was a village of free African Americans founded just after the abolition of slavery in New York. In 1966 he relocated to New York, where he joined a group of abstract artists and included many of them (such as William T. Willliams and Daniel LeRue Johnson) in his 1969 exhibition 5+1 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Fascinated by the technological advances of the space age, she looked at daily reports of NASA’s Mariner 9 mission to photograph Mars. "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration", 4. Wood, cotton, plastic, metal, acrylic, printed paper and fabric, 113/4 x 8 x 23/4 in. You'll see everything from visitor favorites to fragile treasures that can only be placed on view from time to time. Tapes every Thursday afternoon through July, at the MTV studios in Times Square! Installations include Rorschach-like portraits of black Americans who were killed in police-involved shootings, a mural made of 39 prison-issued sheets at 40 feet long and 15 feet tall and more. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Hament Corporation, 72.58. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out America LLC. Users just have to create a FREE profile on our site, and apply for the tickets HERE — http://onsetproductions.com/calendar/details.aspx?showID=416 .

Offset lithograph on paper, 213/4 x 271/2 in. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles). Gelatin silver prints. That year he also set up the artist-in-residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

February is Black History Month. All rights reserved. Tell us in the comments below. Brooklyn Museum – The museum’s monthly First Saturday, a free night of music, film and other public programming, presents Black History Month: Living Legacy on February 7th. Broken up by transitional moments in the evolution of the museum's collection, buildings, and ambitions, you'll see a thoughtful reflection on where it's been and where it's going. © Betye Saar. (55.2 x 69.9 cm). Alma Thomas (American, 1891–1978). Check their program schedule for calendar and details. Besides its impressive permanent collection, the museum hosts exhibitions and programs. It also participated in anti-slavery activities. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 70.14. The wonderful rich history needs to be celebrated and remembered. We already have this email. Acrylic on canvas, 691/4 x 571/8 in.

This exhibition, and Bowling’s extensive writings, argued for an expansive notion of Black art encompassing both abstract and figurative. In addition to the research library and exhibits, the Center hosts events including discussions, theater and musical performances, and a film series.

Courtesy of the artist and Steven Kasher Gallery. All the artists embraced a spirit of aesthetic innovation, but some took this as their primary goal, often through experiments with color and paint application. This is the first exhibition on the revolutionary aesthetics and social politics of the famous Manhattan nightclub and its influence on film, fashion and nightclub design. © Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks. Between them, they offer so many exhibitions, of every variety and taste, that it's hard to keep track of them. Looking forward to hearing Harry Belafonte talk about his new autobiography. This painting was named after jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and may conjure the cascades of sound in his performances. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York. © 2017 Estate of Roy DeCarava. © Betye Saar. Leadership support for this exhibition is provided by the Ford Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, Universal Music Group, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Déjà vu! © Carolyn Mims Lawrence. (29.8 x 20.3 x 7 cm). Vintage gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. Searching for listings and reviews for the best New York museum exhibitions and shows?

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