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…

Griffith Performs Acclaimed Play at East Hampton Library, New York — 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. …

The artist turns Christopher Columbus, Peter Stuyvesant, and the doctor who experimented on female slaves into fetish figures burdened by their histories. — 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. …

Leroy Trotz, teacher and forefather of STEM education in Guyana — 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…

Dr. Cheryl Finley’s Investigation into “The Art of the Slave Ship Icon” — 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…