Tuesday, November 20
6:30–8PM
Brooklyn Historical Society
While Brooklyn is widely known as home to one of the largest Caribbean diasporas in the world, lesser known is the presence of the Guyanese-American community, the 5th largest immigrant community in NYC. Join three of Guyana’s leading female literary voices to explore…
Ivan Forde: Dense Lightness
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York
November 8 — December 15, 2018
Opening Reception Thursday, November 8 from 6–8pm
Performance on Thursday, November 29th at 7 pm
Dense Lightness is Forde’s first solo exhibition, bringing together multimedia works from the artist’s interdisciplinary experimentations…
Keisha Scarville: Alma
November 1 — December 13, 2018
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery, Light Work, Syracuse
Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 1, 6pm
Reception: Thursday, November 1, 5–7pm
Keisha Scarville’s primary theme is the relationship between transformation and the unknown. Grounded in photography, she works across media to explore place, absence…
By Mark Segal | The East Hampton Star
Ingrid Griffith was 7 years old when her parents emigrated from Guyana to the United States, leaving her and her older sister with their grandmothers, one of whom was a recluse, the other a religious fanatic. …
By Guyana Modern | Emory University Libraries
It is with great excitement to share that Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia has acquired, and recently made open for research, the papers of artist Donald Locke. …
By Javier Pes | artnet News
It wasn’t Columbus Day for everyone in the US this week. Many eschewed the national holiday to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, choosing instead to honor the histories of Native Americans and other indigenous peoples around the world. …
Hew Locke, Patriots
October 11 — November 10, 2018
Opening reception: Thursday, October 11, 6–8pm
P.P.O.W Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
As shared by P.P.O.W, the exhibition Patriots by multimedia artist Hew Locke will his first with the New York-based gallery. …
By Leah Sinclair | The Voice
There’s agrowing popularity in people from underrepresented communities engaging in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) sector. In fact, the growth rate in the number of women graduates in physical science exceeded that of men in the UK in 2017.
And despite a…
By Zachary Small | Hyperallergic
Frank Bowling spent his formative years criss-crossing between three continents and running into everyone from David Hockney to Jasper Johns and Clement Greenberg. But long before joining this elite crowd of Anglo-American abstract expressionists and modernist myth-makers, he was simply a boy from New Amsterdam…
In an extensive new historical and theoretical survey Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon, art historian Dr. Cheryl Finley “traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the…
