Announcement
BRIClab 2023/24 Residency Applications Open for NYC Artists
The visual artists, performers, and media makers selected as residents receive $2,500 stipends, mentorship, documentation of their work, and more.
New York
Announcement
Brooklyn Museum Presents A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
The exhibition features newly commissioned works by 12 acclaimed Black contemporary artists such as Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, and more.
News
Kwame Brathwaite, “Black Is Beautiful” Photographer, Dies at 85
Throughout his six-decade career, Brathwaite harnessed the power of photography to recalibrate the public understanding of Blackness.
News
Six Perfumes That Capture the Met Museum’s Essence
The new fragrances are compatible with in-room diffusers, so you can now refer to your living room as the Egyptian Gallery.
Art
Josephine Halvorson Paints to Remember
She invites the viewer to contemplate all the ways we mark and live in time, and how much of what we record and keep we will eventually dispose of.
News
Guggenheim Museum Union Rallies at VIP Opening
The museum's commitment to diversity in exhibitions rings hollow to workers who say they are not receiving a fair wage.
Art
The Women Artists Commemorated on an NYC Sidewalk
The signatures of Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, and six other historical women artists are engraved on a small stretch of sidewalk on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Announcement
The Public Theater Explores the Hurricane Katrina Diaspora in shadow/land
Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Candis C. Jones, this lyrical meditation on legacy, erotic fugitivity, and self-determination is on view in NYC.
News
Met Museum Repatriates 15 Objects to India
The sculptures were all at one point sold by the disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor.
News
MoMA Apologizes for Kicking Out Black Artist From Installation
Museum security asked Heather Agyepong to leave the installation Black Power Naps, meant as a safe space for Black people, after a White visitor called her "aggressive."
Opinion
New York's BIPOC-Led Arts Orgs Are Grossly Underfunded
Proposed cuts to arts funding across the state would hit entities of color the hardest.
Film
New Directors/New Films Festival Takes an Experimental Turn
A host of documentaries exemplify ND/NF's unconventional programming philosophy.