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🏆Reposted from @worldpressphoto ‘A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece’ by Mohammed Salem (@mohammedsalem85), @reuters, is the World Press Photo of the Year.
This image shows Inas Abu Maamar (36) cradling the body of her niece Saly (5) who was killed, along with four other family members, when an Israeli missile struck their home, in Khan Younis, Gaza, 17 October 2023.
The photographer describes this photo, taken just days after his wife gave birth, as a “powerful and sad moment that sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip.” He found Inas squatting on the ground, embracing the child, at the Nasser Hospital morgue, where residents were going to search for missing relatives. Inas had raced to the family home when she heard that it had been hit, and then on to the morgue.
At the outset of the Israel-Hamas war, Israel instructed Gazans to evacuate to the south for their safety. Yet, according to reports from @guardian and @aljazeera, Israeli airstrikes heavily bombarded Khan Younis in southern Gaza from mid-October. Many of those killed were families who had left Gaza City days earlier. By the end of 2023, Palestinian women and children accounted for more than two-thirds of the death toll in Gaza, according to @unitednationshumanrights.
The jury was deeply moved by how this image evokes an emotional reflection in every viewer. Composed with care and respect, it offers at once a metaphorical and literal glimpse into unimaginable loss. Set in a geographically distant medical setting, it resonates globally, urging us to confront our desensitization to the consequences of human conflict.
The image is multi-layered, representing the loss of a child, the struggle of the Palestinian people, and the 33,000 people killed in Palestine. The jury recognized that this photographer was awarded for the same subject nearly a decade ago, underscoring the continued struggle for recognition of such a pressing issue.
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The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year. Discover the #WPPh2024 awarded works via the link in the bio.
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@154artfair returns to #NYC next week, May 1-4, 2024!
Reposted from @154artfair 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is thrilled to announce the return of 1-54 New York, from 1- 4 May 2024! Now in its 10th year, this edition will see 1-54 expand its dilating imprint upon the city by relocating to Chelsea, in the heart of Manhattan, once again coinciding with Frieze New York. The fair will be held at the Starrett-Lehigh Building, 255 11th Avenue (@starrettlehigh ).
The 2024 New York edition will present 30+ galleries exhibiting the work of over 70 artists from Africa and the global diaspora, making this the 10th and largest edition of 1-54 New York to date!
VIP & Press preview (by invitation only)
Wednesday, May 1, 2 pm – 7 pm
Thursday, May 2, 11 am – 7 pm
Public opening
Friday, May 3, 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday, May 4, 11 am – 7 pm
🎟️ Get your ticket via the link in bio
🗓️ 1-4 May 2024
📍 Starrett-Lehigh Building, 255 11th Avenue, New York, 10001
#154artfair
© Karim Hapette (@karim_hapette )
#154ArtFair #BlackGirlArtGeeks #AfricanArtists #AfricanDiaspora
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#CeasefireNow
✊🏿Bravo @mo_hamz and all who participated in this beautiful show of support for the brave @sjpcolumbia students! 🎥Reposted from @mo_hamz Dear C0lumbia University students, our brave younger generation, and all those who risk everything to stand on the side of hum@nity through all the adversity, cعns0rship, do××ing, suspعnsions, عxpulsions, firings, p0licع brut@1ity, and unjust arrعsts…THIS STANDING OVATION FROM SOME OF THE STRONGEST PRO-P@LعST1N1AN VOICES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IS FOR YOU. WE SEE YOU. WE HEAR YOU. WE STAND WITH YOU. WE’RE PROUD OF YOU. WE COMMEND YOU. WE SALUTE YOU. WE LOVE YOU. WE ARE YOU. 👏🏽✊🏽🫡
Thank you all who made this video happen. This is for you @sjp.columbia, @cuapartheiddivest, and all those fighting on the right side of history. We have your backs until the end of time.
Additional features in the video: @chris.smalls_ @sashaheron @maziii_00 @mariamtheugandan @archived.brain @rheysofsunshine @getfitwithkifah @jay_karanouh @shamrahahmed. I’m inspired by you all.
🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #NewExhibit “Ethereal Essence: Portraits of the African Diaspora” opens tonight at @curtissjacobsgallery_harlem , 6PM-9PM.
📍Curtiss Jacobs Gallery
2075 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd (7th Avenue) #Harlem #NYC
Reposted from @curtissjacobsgallery_harlem Join us on Friday April 19th, 2024 6pm - 9pm as we embark on a captivating journey into the soulful depths of the African Diaspora through mesmerizing portraiture. Ethereal Essence,” a remarkable group exhibition showcasing the exquisite works of five esteemed African artists.
Each artist skillfully captures the essence and elegance of their subjects, offering a glimpse into the rich tapestry of cultural heritage and individual narratives.
From bold strokes to delicate details, these portraits resonate with a timeless allure, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the beauty and diversity of the African experience.
#ContemporaryArt
#ContemporaryAfricanArt
#BlackArt
#CurtissJacobsGallery
#ContemporaryPainting #MixedMedia #AfricanArtist
#CollectAfricanArt #NigerianArtist #HarlemGallery
#BlackOwnedGallery #BlackGirlArtGeeks
📚#ArtIsAWeapon Reposted from @blackwomeninvisualart 📚 Art Books + Black Women for Winter/Spring/Summer 2024 - newly released, preorder, or coming soon. ▶️ Swipe for more and feel free to comment below what other titles should be on our list!
📖 Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial - The second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era. Authored by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins #earnestinelovellejenkins, Alaina Simone @alainasimone.inc , Celeste-Marie Bernier #celestemariebernier
📖 The Art of Remembering - art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw @professorshaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present.
📖 Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas) - In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene @nikkigphd examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture.
📖 Mickalene Thomas: All About Love - Texts by Beverly Guy-Sheftall @bevshef, Claudia Rankine @claudiarankine, Renée Mussai @mussairenee and more. This major survey publication further affirms Thomas’ status as a key figure of contemporary art. The book also covers her distinct visual vocabulary, drawing on themes of intergenerational female empowerment, autobiography, memory and tenets of Black feminist theory.
📖 Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940 - How modern and contemporary artists across the African and Caribbean diasporas transformed European Surrealism into a tool for Black expression. by Maria Elena Ortiz @contemporarychica with contributors Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephgabriel , Negarra A. Kudumu @negarraakudumu Ashley Stull Meyers @ashleyontheinternet and more.
Click on there profiles or search the titles to ADD these to your bookshelves!
#artbooks #bookshelf #blackwomeninart #blackart #BlackGirlArtGeeks
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Peaceful journeys to artist/actvist/author/educator @faithringgold, who transitioned April 12, 2024 at 93 years old.
My Hero
My North Star
My Inspiration for creating my #ArtIsAWeapon platform to promote the transformative power of Black Art for Social Justice!
I am grateful that I was able to sit with, learn from and thank her for the profound, positive impact she made on my life.
Images of Ms. Ringgold’s extraordinary body of work taken at “Faith Ringgold: American People,” the 2022 exhibition at @newmuseum that featured over fifty years of work by the visionary, trailblazing artist.
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Reposted from the @nytimes: Faith Ringgold, a multimedia artist whose pictorial quilts depicting the African American experience gave rise to a second distinguished career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, died on Saturday at her home in Englewood, N.J. She was 93…For more than a half-century, Ms. Ringgold explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media, among them painting, sculpture, mask- and doll-making, textiles and performance art. She was also a longtime advocate of bringing the work of Black people and women into the collections of major American museums.
Ms. Ringgold’s art, which was often rooted in her own experience, has been exhibited at the White House and in museums and galleries around the world. It is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the American Craft Museum in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and other institutions.
For Ms. Ringgold, as her work and many interviews made plain, art and activism were a seamless, if sometimes quilted, whole. Classically trained as a painter and sculptor, she began producing political paintings in the 1960s and ’70s that explored the highly charged subjects of relations between Black and white people, and between men and women, in America. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/arts/faith-ringgold-dead.html
#FaithRinggold #LibraArtists #TarBeach #BlackWomenArtists #StoryQuilts #Harlem
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“Richard Hunt: Early Masterworks, the second largest exhibition of the artist’s work in New York in over 50 years,” is on view at @whitecube through tomorrow, April 13th.
📍White Cube Gallery
1002 Madison Avenue #NYC
Reposted from @whitecube / @richardhuntsculptor In 1971, Richard Hunt achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first African American sculptor to have a landmark retrospective at MoMA, New York with a presentation of works from 1955–71.
This show at White Cube New York mirrors that time span, including the restaging of several works that were presented in his MoMA retrospective.
Several rarely exhibited works from the artist’s personal collection, including ‘Hero’s Head’ (1956), a pivotal sculpture made in response to the murder of Emmett Till, feature in the show.
“[Richard Hunt’s] attendance at the Till funeral nearly 70 years ago helped establish the course for his career.” - New York Times
When Richard Hunt was 19 years old, he witnessed the open-casket funeral of Emmett Till in Chicago. Till, who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, had grown up only two blocks from the Woodlawn home where Hunt was born. Till’s mother, Mamie, decided to have an open casket for Emmett, and images of his mutilation circulated the world to show the torture and violence conducted on her son. Hunt would later remark, “What happened to [Till] could have happened to me.” Hunt went on to create art shaped by this experience, which influenced both his artistic expression and his commitment to the cause of Civil Rights.
“[The sculpture] Hero’s Head, 1956, is what I would call my response to Emmett Till,” says Richard Hunt. “I was there with my mother and father, my sister, and my cousin who was part of the family … [Emmett Till’s] remains are there at the church. Till’s mother had an open casket. It was obviously something to respond to.”
Find out more: whitecube.art/RichardHuntNY
Images: Richard Hunt, ‘Hero’s Head’, 1956 © 2024 The Richard Hunt Trust / ARS, NY and DACS, London;
#whitecube #richardhunt #richardhuntsculptor #newyorkartexhibition #BlackArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks #ArtHero
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Hey #PrinceFamily - @polishedsolid ’s #EroticCity40 Symposium is happening this weekend and my girl @teesgram is on Friday night’s program! See y'all there…
Reposted from @polishedsolid Join us 4 the #EroticCity40 symposium @ NYU in Brooklyn & livestreamed from April 12–14, 2024 (Fri–Sun)!
We’ll celebrate the four albums that defined 1984—Prince’s Purple Rain, The Time’s Ice Cream Castle, Apollonia 6 & Sheila E’s The Glamorous Life—alongside the Purple Rain film.
3 days
46 speakers
14 sessions
16 presentations
a special in-person segment of What Did Prince Do This Week?
and 1 very special keynote speaker - Vaughn Terry—one-half of the fashion design team duo Louis & Vaughn during the Purple Rain era!
Registration and more info: https://eroticcity.polishedsolid.com
Schedule at a glance
#EroticCity40 Symposium
📍NYU, 370 Jay Street, Room 202, Brooklyn, NY
The Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson is not affiliated, associated, or connected with the ‘Prince #EroticCIty40 Symposium,’ nor has it endorsed or sponsored the ‘Prince #EroticCIty40 Symposium.’ Further, the Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson has not licensed any of its intellectual property to the producers, advertisers or directors of ‘Prince #EroticCity40 Symposium.’.
MASSIVE THANKS 2 @rev3rend for the symposium graphics!
#Prince4Ever #TheTime #IceCreamCastles #SheilaE #TheGlamorousLife #Apollonia6 #Prince #PurpleRain
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Hero!
#LorraineOGrady #MlleBourgeoiseNoire
Reposted from @marianeibrahimgallery Lorraine O'Grady for @harpersbazaarus, the Possibility Issue (April 2024): “The Audacity of Lorraine O'Grady”
“Her first solo show at Mariane Ibrahim, "The Knight, or Lancela Palm-and-Steel,” opens April 10 at the gallery’s Windy City flagship and will feature a character, the Knight, that was introduced in “Both/And” with a set of “announcement cards” titled “Announcement of a New Persona (Performances to Come!)”… Like so much of O’Grady’s work, the Knight combines her predilection for mischief with her continued focus on hybridity and the constraints and contradictions of identity.”
Lorraine shares, "I always believed. The question was, did anybody else believe?…But I knew I was right.”
A special thanks to @samiranasr for the support!
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Story by Soraya Nadia McDonald
Photography by Collier Schorr
Styling by Samira Nasr
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#marianeibrahimgallery #marianeibrahim #lorraineogrady #harpersbazaar #samiranasr #theknight #chicago #expochicago #BlackGirlArtGeeks
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Hero!
#LorraineOGrady #MlleBourgeoiseNoire
Reposted from @marianeibrahimgallery Lorraine O'Grady for @harpersbazaarus, the Possibility Issue (April 2024): “The Audacity of Lorraine O'Grady”
“Her first solo show at Mariane Ibrahim, "The Knight, or Lancela Palm-and-Steel,” opens April 10 at the gallery’s Windy City flagship and will feature a character, the Knight, that was introduced in “Both/And” with a set of “announcement cards” titled “Announcement of a New Persona (Performances to Come!)”… Like so much of O’Grady’s work, the Knight combines her predilection for mischief with her continued focus on hybridity and the constraints and contradictions of identity.”
Lorraine shares, "I always believed. The question was, did anybody else believe?…But I knew I was right.”
A special thanks to @samiranasr for the support!
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Story by Soraya Nadia McDonald
Photography by Collier Schorr
Styling by Samira Nasr
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#marianeibrahimgallery #marianeibrahim #lorraineogrady #harpersbazaar #samiranasr #theknight #chicago #expochicago #BlackGirlArtGeeks
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My Gawd On High!!!! 🔥❤️💐
@damsonidris @essence #SexiestMenOfTheMoment
Reposted from @essence Damson Idris: Brick by Brick
The inaugural ESSENCE Sexiest Men of the Moment list has arrived, and our first May/ June cover star is Damson Idris!
The Foundation of a man. He stands 6’1, with deep auburn skin and a 4K pearly smile that glistens like ultraviolet rays off charcoal mines in the deepest sands off the coast of Nigeria. Yes, it’s that deep. His charm is tangible. His infectiousness is palatable. His future is limitless.
We let the veil and Snowfall, as the curtain has called Franklin Saint to his highest heights. His recent NAACP Image Award win has cemented the bricks and built the house of a career that, like portraits, is developing in real-time.
Make no error that this new era of Damson Idris has a Formula — One that follows the path of Hollywood greats and has us anticipating his upcoming feature film debut.
But before we switch gears, let’s get to know the man beyond the heartthrob. The notoriously private actor dishes on his rom-com hopes, staying in line while remaining offline, and why he thinks he’s one of ESSENCE Sexiest Men of the Moment.
Read the full May /June cover story on ESSENCE.com now and on newsstands on 4/23.
Roll the Credits:
Talent: @damsonidris
Writer: @mentionme
Photographer: @adrienneraquel
Stylist: @yashuasimmons
Barber/Grooming: @jessicasmalls
Nails: @customtnails1
Set Design: @codycr
Location: @thebeverlyestate
Production: @themorrisongroup
Special Thanks: @lermitagebh @shortstorieshotels
ESSENCE, SVP, Creative: @coreytstokes
ESSENCE, Senior Content Director: @itsnandibby
ESSENCE, Visual Director: @_mq______
ESSENCE, Design Director: @anthonybones_
#DamsonIdris #BlackBeauty #FranklinSaint #Snowfall #BlackMen
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#ArtAsPower #BuildingIrresistibleMovements
Reposted from @fwdtogether It’s here! Our Building Irresistible Movements Guide: Best Practices for Organizations and Visual Artists is now available for download! (Link in bio, or go to forwardtogether.org/tools/BIM!)
Thanks to the work and visioning of #artists, cultural workers, and organizational freedom fighters, the BIM Guide is designed to support a shift in culture and care for artists and collaborations for movement work!
The power of movement art rests in the power of the people, relationships, and histories that create it. As we face surging white nationalism, healthcare crises, genocide, fascism, and climate collapse, the possibilities of transformation through law are and have always been limited! The Building Irresistible Movements guide is so integral to the shift we need across our movement to ethically and intentionally develop cultural strategies for art and artists. Download the guide today and let us know how it impacts you!
Image 1 Description: Graphic with orange paper-like textured background with words in black that read, “Building Irresistible Movement. Art as power. Download the BIM guide today! Forwardtogether.org/tools/bim.” Images of 4 people of various ethnicities/races, skin tones, and gender identities holding objects including a painting and camera.
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I still can not believe @casey_benjamin has transitioned … Continuing to keep his family, friends, colleagues, loved ones and fans lifted.
Reposted from @casey_benjamin Bring your friends 💙💙💙💙 We look forward to seeing you 💫💫💫
Photo credit - @piercedphotos
✨️ECLIPSE MUSICAL CONDUCTION FOR CASEY BENJAMIN
Mon. April 8, 2024 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Brooklyn Public Library Central Library 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238
As a cosmic offering to Casey Benjamin during the Solar Eclipse, Vernon Reid [@vurnt22] will conduct members of Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber [@burntsugararkestra] and special guests on the plaza of the Brooklyn Public Library’s [@bklynlibrary] Central Library branch in a community-based program to lift Casey’s name into eternity.
This event is organized in partnership with the Benjamin family.
✨️We have been deeply touched by the outpouring of support as we mourn this unbearable loss. 🙏🏾💜💫💙
We would like to invite you to a public viewing: 4-7 PM EST Mt. Olivet Church of Hollis Queens, NY
The viewing is open to all; we ask that you kindly RSVP to help us anticipate the attendance. RSVP and find details at Casey’s memorial site: memorialsource.com/memorial/ casey-benjamin
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the Casey Benjamin Memorial Foundation.
If you would like to help the family directly with expenses, please:
Zelle: welovecaseybenjamin@gmail.com
Venmo: @WeLoveCasey Benjamin
PayPal: @WeLoveCaseyBenjamin
Donations in any amount are deeply appreciated
LINK IN BIO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
#CaseyBenjaminForever
#CaseyBenjamin #Eclipse
🎙#ArtIsAWeapon Today, April 5, @lincolncenter & @hiphopeducationcenter present “Fresh, Bold & So Def Symposium: honoring women in Hip-Hop with panel discussions, performances, keynote speeches, and more. I’m looking forward to hearing my brilliant Bronx sis Dr. @joanmorgan ’s keynote speech "Hip Hop Feminism Futurism” and the conversations featuring dope women Hip Hop scholars, artists, activists and advocates @kath3000, @toniblackman @officiallipgame @blackpuertoricanphd @iammarthadiaz @iammcsharock @jazzyjoyce and more…
Tickets, schedule and info: https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/fresh-bold-andamp-so-def-symposium
🗓 Friday, April 5
⏰️ 2:30 PM - 11:00 PM
📍Alice Tully Hall
🎟 Choose-What-You-Pay
#FreshBoldSoDef #HipHopSymposium #WomenInHipHop #LincolnCenter #HipHopEducation
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#MarvinGaye - my favorite musical artist of all time - was born 85 years ago today (April 2, 1939).
Gifted, flawed, spiritual, tormented, beautiful…
Caption reposted from @nmaahc What’s a Marvin Gaye song that speaks to you?
#OnThisDay in 1939, singer Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. was born. The Washington, D.C. native developed an early love of music through the church, and by the 1960s came to be known as the #PrinceofSoul.
The son of a Hebrew Pentecostal minister, it was the Pentecostal Church that served as the context of his faith formation and creative musical genius. Gaye mastered the piano and drums as a child and caught the attention of Motown founder Berry Gordy, who hired him as a session drummer for the label working on songs for Stevie Wonder and The Supremes. Under the label, Gaye would enjoy a steady string of hits including “Stubborn Kinda Fellow” (1962), “I’ll Be Doggone” (1965), and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968). As a major Motown artist, Gaye is credited as one of the sonic architects responsible for creating the label’s distinctive sound.
Described by Ebony as “intensely spiritual, almost mystical,” and seemingly in “pursuit of some ethereal other world” because of his preoccupation with religion and sexuality, Marvin Gaye’s artistry further complicated conventional notions of the holy and the profane. Alongside the strong religious and sexual sensibilities evidenced in later songs such as “Sexual Healing,” “Sanctified Lady,” and “Let’s Get It On,” Gaye’s 11th album, What’s Going On, is acclaimed for the socially conscious quality of his lyrical content. Themes explored on the album include an anti-war critique, ecology, love, sensuality, and community, all informed by his formative Hebraic-Pentecostal worldview.
Follow the link in our bio to learn more on our Searchable Museum.
#APeoplesJourney
📸 Photograph Credits:
Images 1 & 2 by Ed Caraeff @thebulletlisttrip Van Nuys, California March 28, 1976.
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Images 3 & 4 by Isaac Sutton - reposted from @nmaahc - Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
