ICYMI
A ROUND-UP FOR
ART COLLECTORS PASS MEMBERS
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) is a new round-up of news, openings, happenings, and more — curated by Long Gallery Harlem. For continued access to our curated round-up, apply today for the Art Collectors Pass.
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 25–July 28, 2024
In February 2024, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South.
Confronting What It Means to Be Black in America Through Faith and Art
The New York Times
February 25, 2024
”For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, ‘The N-Word of God.’ ” –Robert Ito, The New York Times
How 9 Black Collectors Are Changing the Art World, Starting at Home
Architectural Digest
February 15, 2024
"For many Black art collectors, the home doubles as a gallery. Not just because our interiors are where we keep our most valued possessions, but, as artist and curator Jessica Gaynelle Moss explains, because ‘we didn’t have space otherwise.’ " —Charlotte Collins, AD
Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall: Along 155th Street, Where the Windows Face East
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling
Through February 18, 2024
In their collective, research-driven practice, artists Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall consider the enmeshed lives and histories of Black and South Asian communities that existed in Harlem, in veiled forms, in the early–mid 20th century. Dasgupta and Marshall’s practice animates these largely unwritten social histories, through a practice of storytelling and “parafiction,” where historical and imagined realities overlap.
Adama Delphine Fawundu: In the Spirit of Àṣẹ
Newark Museum of Art
Through March 10, 2024
This exhibition presents new artworks created by Adama Delphine Fawundu with the Museum’s far-reaching Arts of Global Africa collection as a touchstone for her artistic explorations.
Cauleen Smith: The Wanda Coleman Songbook
David Zwirner
Through March 16, 2024
The Wanda Coleman Songbook is an immersive video installation that enlists scent, sight, and sound to explore the multidimensional depth of poems by Wanda Coleman (1946–2013).
BRONX CALLING: THE SIXTH AIM BIENNIAL (Part One)
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Through March 31, 2024
Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial showcases the work of 53 emerging artists who completed The Bronx Museum’s annual Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship program in 2020, 2021, 2022, or 2023. In response to the world-altering events of the past four years, these AIM Fellows have been exploring urgent issues through their work.
The Effect
The Shed
March 3–31, 2024
What impulses define who we really are? As Connie and Tristan settle into their participation in a clinical drug trial, they begin to fall in love. But how can they be sure it’s the real thing and not an exhilarating side effect of the new antidepressant they’re taking? The Effect is written by Lucy Prebble, directed by Jamie Lloyd, featuring Michele Austin, Paapa Essiedu, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and Taylor Russell.
LIKE THEY DO IN THE MOVIES
The Perelman Performing Arts Center
March 10–31, 2024
Tony Award® winner, Emmy Award® winner, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne is both the star and the playwright of this one-man tour de force which he describes as “the stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself.”
HARMONY HOLIDAY
BLACK BACKSTAGE
The Kitchen
March 21–May 25, 2024
Inspired by the ways Black music is often born in these ruins and becomes their archive(s)—brought to the stage, the radio, and the album as necessity/commodity—the exhibition comprises a short film, prints of new writing, a sculptural, sound installation, occasional live performances, and a series of public conversations.
THE FLESH OF THE EARTH
Hauser & Wirth
Through April 6, 2024
Curated by Enuma Okoro, ‘The Flesh of the Earth’ encourages us all to consider ways of decentering ourselves from the prevalent anthropocentric narrative, to reimagine a more intimate relationship with the earth, and to renew our connection with the life-force energy that surges through all of the natural world, both human and more-than-human. Featuring Ama Codjoe, Olafur Eliasson, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Haley Mellin, Cassi Namoda, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Billie Zangewa.
sonia louise davis
to reverberate tenderly
Queens Museum
Through April 7, 2024
to reverberate tenderly is a multi-sensory exhibition and living environment for creative activity. As a visual artist, writer, and performer, sonia louise davis’ working ethos is invested in improvisation as a form of research that uses the body as a guide. The artist’s philosophy is characterized by improvisation not only as it relates to experimental music, but as a daily exercise of care, resilience, radical softness, and self-determination in the face of systemic injustices.
Grace Wales Bonner—
Spirit Movers
Museum of Modern Art
Through April 7
“Beyond the single, immaculate individual expression, I hear an enthralling symphony,” says the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner. For this exhibition, the latest installment of MoMA’s celebrated Artist’s Choice series, Wales Bonner has gathered nearly 40 artworks from the Museum’s collection that explore sound, movement, performance, and style in the African diaspora and beyond.
AND EVER AN EDGE
Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2022–23
MoMA PS1
Through April 8
In the fifth iteration of a multiyear collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, the Studio Museum in Harlem presents its annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition at MoMA PS1. And ever an edge: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2022–23 features new work by the 2022–23 cohort of the Studio Museum’s foundational residency program: artists Jeffrey Meris (b. 1991, Haiti), Devin N. Morris (b. 1986, Baltimore, MD), and Charisse Pearlina Weston (b. 1988, Houston, TX).
FRIEZE NEW YORK 2024
The Shed
May 1–5, 2024
Frieze New York returns to The Shed to host over 65 of the world’s leading galleries, bringing together ambitious activations and collaborations with artists, institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
The Brooklyn Museum
Through July 7, 2024
Gordon Parks. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Lorna Simpson. Kehinde Wiley. Nina Chanel Abney. These names loom large in the past and present of art—as do many others in the collection of musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys. The first major exhibition of the Dean Collection, Giants showcases a focused selection from the couple’s world-class holdings.
Thelma Golden
The New Yorker
February 5, 2024
”When Golden was a young curator in the nineties, her shows, centering Black artists, were unprecedented. Today, those artists are the stars of the art market.” Read more in The New Yorker.
Caroline Kent
A short play about watching shadows move across the room
Queens Museum
Through December 29, 2024
A short play about watching shadows move across the room (2023) is a mural by Caroline Kent commissioned for the Queens Museum Large Wall. The mural consists of five layers of painted images and sculptures that begin with an all-black base. Painted over this foundation are figures that Kent calls “shadow shapes.” These large shapes vary across black tones lighter than the background yet retain the function of a shadow.
Sakimatwemtwe: A Century of Reflection on the Arts of Africa
The Brooklyn Museum
Through August 4, 2025
Meaning “many heads” to the Bwami society of the Lega people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sakimatwemtwe symbolizes the consideration of multiple perspectives—a principle that this installation aims to achieve. While highlighting African works acquired for the 1923 exhibition, Sakimatwemtwe: A Century of Reflection on the Arts of Africa contextualizes them within a more holistic view of African creativity at the time, in part by incorporating works by early twentieth-century African modernists.
THAT’S ALL FOR NOW.
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