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#Mood...

#Artist: @danielle_mckinney_

#Artwork: Shut Eye, 2023.

Oil on Linen

#painting #blackisbeautiful #solitude #rest #recharge

#impressionism #restisresistance

#daniellemckinney #BlackArt #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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The @heathgallery Presents "We’re Outside" Pop-Up Group Exhibition, today, August 23, 3–7 PM,

📍 Northwest Lawn, Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. If you're heading to @summerstage's Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (see my previous post) you can also check this out!

Reposted from @heathgallery

What to Expect:

🎨 22 local Harlem artists

🎷 Live jazz from the City Parks Foundations SummerStage Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at the ampitheater

🌀 Live sculptural performance using materials from the park

📸 Eye candy selfie station

📖 Free downloadable artist catalog

🧺 Bring a blanket and vibe with neighbors

Featuring work by:

Airco Caravan · Aleathia Brown · Anna Macon · Bonnie Phillips · Christina M. Tapper · Christopher Ender Coryat · Debora Clark Fairfax · Destiny Santana · Fitgi Saint-Louis · Gabrielle Baker · Gary J. Higgins II · Jamel Carroll · Jannette Jwahir Hawkins · Larry Bentley · Laura Gadson · Mayowa Nwadike · Mike McManus · Misha Shipman · Shanequa Benitez · Shungaboy · Stefen Reed · Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper

Free + open to the public

🖤 Presented by MMPCIA & Heath Gallery, in partnership with NYC Parks and the City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage Charlie Parker Jazz Festival.

Supported by:

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council · New York State Council on the Arts · Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation · Administered by LMCC · City Parks Foundation & Partnerships for Parks through the NYC Green Fund

#WereOutside2025 #ArtOutside #CharlieParkerJazzFestival #HeathGallery #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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🙌🏿 @marka27art 🔥

Artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez will be speaking about his incredible sculpture "Elevar La Cultura NYC" at @theshedny today, August 23, 4PM!

Images & information reposted from @streettheorygallery This weekend is your last chance to experience Open Call: Portals at @theshedny, curated by @dejabelardo 💫

Join us this Saturday, August 23rd, for an Artist Talk with @marka27art , where he’ll share the inspiration, process, and deeper meaning behind his 22’ sculpture, Elevar La Cultura. This is your chance to experience the work firsthand and hear directly from the artist as he discusses the intersection of art, identity, and cultural elevation.

⏰ Saturday, Aug 23rd | 4pm - 5pm

📍 The Shed NYC | 545 West 30th St

🎟️ Admission is FREE @ www.theshed.org

Elevar La Cultura is an immersive, large scale public art sculpture that reimagines a Mayan pyramid using street vendor coolers, spiritual objects, and textile elements to honor the strength and stories of immigrant communities.

Thank you to everyone who has visited, engaged with, and supported this monumental installation!

This work will travel to sanctuary cities across the nation, paying tribute to our vulnerable communities. We can’t wait to share where it will go next!

See you there ✊🏾

#Marka27 #PublicArt #TheShedNYC #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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I grew up visiting the @studiomuseum, and I am so excited to see its redesign and visit when it reopens November 15, 2025!

Reposted from @studiomuseum 🖤 Read our profile in Vanity Fair’s (@vanityfair) “Inside the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Dazzling, Seven-Years-in-the-Making Return!” ⁠

Featuring reflections from artists Tschabalala Self (@tschabalalaself) and Karon Davis (@karondavis), this article illuminates how the Museum’s reopening is a powerful testament to our mission: championing artists of African descent. ⁠

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With homages to architectural elements iconic to Harlem—the street, stage, stoop, and sanctuary—our new home is designed with flexible spaces for programming, gathering, and connection. ⁠

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Photo: @DanaScruggs

Featuring: Thelma Golden, Manuel Acevedo, Derrick Adams, Turiya Adkins, Candida Alvarez, Firelei Báez, Xenobia Bailey, Kevin Beasley, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Dawoud Bey, Sanford Biggers, Garrett Bradley, Jordan Casteel, Karon Davis, Derek Fordjour, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Charles Gaines, Cy Gavin, Allison Janae Hamilton, E. Jane, Noah Jemison, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Rodney McMillian, Julie Mehretu, Wardell Milan, Devin N. Morris, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Ebony G. Patterson, Tschabalala Self, Lorna Simpson, Sable Elyse Smith, Ming Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Nari Ward, Stanley Whitney, William T. Williams, Tourmaline

Read the full article:

Learn more about the reopening and plan your visit:

#StudioMuseum #BlackArtists #HarlemGirl #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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This weekend's @blacktronika Festival in NYC features two free @summerstage shows with @kingbritt @iamrimarkable @joeclaussellsplaygroundd @vijayiyer, @waajeed and more (Aug 16 & 17), a panel discussion at the @apollotheater this afternoon (Aug 15) and a pop up DJ event at @cosmicartts tonight🔥

Reposted from @summerstage Blacktronika Festival Panel Discussion: Sonic World Building For Our Liberation at @apollotheater [today] featuring King Britt, Charlie Dark, Joy Guidry, Niecy Blues, Dr. Shana L. Redmond, and LaFrae Sci ahead of their shows this weekend, moderated by Ytasha Womack. RSVP at the link in @blacktronika's bio!

Reposted from @blacktronika August 16th & 17th! <link in bio>

Blacktronika is honored to partner with Summerstage for two significant events in New York City, Central Park and Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park.

The Central Park (Aug. 16 4PM) program will feature an ‘eclectrifying’ DJ set from King Britt B2B Charlie Dark, a spiritual house set by Brooklyn’s Joe Claussell, the debut live performance of Detroit icon Waajeed, an uplifting set from Detroit’s Rimarkable, and a live headlining performance by acid house pioneers Phuture & Dj Pierre from Chicago.

The Harlem (Aug 17 - Marcus Garvey Park, 5PM) program will present a distinguished tribute to the legendary #PaulRobeson, featuring Dr. Shana Redmond, Vijay Iyer, and LaFrae Sci. Additional performances include an improvisational set from Brooklyn’s Sonic Messengers, a debut collaboration between visionary artists Joy Guidry and Niecey Blues, and an exploration of the Black Quantum Futurism universe (Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips).

We invite you to join us for two transformative days of intellectual and artistic engagement, celebrating the convergence of mind and Black sound.

@blacktronika

@summerstage

@kingbritt

@phuture_phuture

@waajeed

@daddydarkrdc

@iamrimarkable

@joeclaussellsplaygroundd

@blackquantumfuturism

@sonicmessengers

@shanalredmond

@fraefraedrum

@vijayiyer

moormother

@djpierrephuture

@joe_wey

@niecyblues

@ucsdmusic

@erikaelliottnyc

@yuniemo

#Blacktronika #Summerstage #FreeInNYC #Music #BlackDanceMusic

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Watch UK Soul Legend Omar's NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert!

Video and story reposted from @nprmusic youtube:

Bobby Carter | August 14, 2025

As Omar performs “This Is Not a Love Song” at the Tiny Desk, I can’t help but think of how contradictory that particular selection is to his overall career in music. His knack for penning pure love songs has taken him on a 40-year musical journey around the world from Kent, England, and most recently, landing him at NPR headquarters.

Born Omar Lye-Fook, the singer-songwriter is a key figure in the history of British soul music. His debut single, “There’s Nothing Like This,” released in 1990, not only helped to set the stage for the “neo soul” movement but also led to collaborations with Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and the late Angie Stone.

Dressed to the nines and wearing his signature high-top locs, Omar stepped behind the Desk with a look of disbelief on his face. I don’t know if it was the number of die-hard fans in the building or the proximity at which they stood; in any case, he fed off that energy and gave it right back to the crowd as they swayed and sang along to highlights from his timeless catalog.

SET LIST

“Can We Go Out?”

“The Man”

“Little Boy”

“This Is Not a Love Song”

“There’s Nothing Like This”

MUSICIANS

Omar Lye-Fook: vocals, keys

Mike Griot: bass, music director

Teddy Crockett: guitar

Eric Brown: drums, background vocals

Raliegh Neal II: keys

Vivian Sessoms: background vocals

Aaron Broadus: trumpet

Antonio Parker: saxophone

TINY DESK TEAM

Producer: Bobby Carter

Director/Editor: Kara Frame

Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai

Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter

Videographers: Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern

Audio Engineer: Josh Newell

Production Assistant: Dhanika Pineda

Series Editor: Lars Gotrich

Photographer: Sofia Seidel

Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton

#tinydesk​ #nprmusic​ #omarabdullah​

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Happy B'earthday #artist @lornasimpson

🎥 @metmuseum film "Meet the Artist—Lorna Simpson: Source Notes" goes behind the scenes with the artist as she prepared for her landmark painting exhibition, on view through November 30, 2025.

#LornaSimpson #SourceNotes #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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Peaceful journeys #DrDanielleSpencer 🕊 Her passing has me shook. She was one of my very first elementary school friends in Harlem. I remember her telling me about auditioning for a TV show, but not knowing then that it was for her play the iconic role of sassy little sister "Dee" in the 70's sitcom "What's Happening." We lost touch over the years, but I knew she'd become a veterinarian and was happy to have reconnected briefly on the phone a couple of years ago. Sending love and my condolences to her family, friends and fans.

Image and caption reposted from @haywoodnelsonofficial Brilliance! It comes in a great many forms. We all have them and we all have this family’s - Dr. Danielle Spencer (June 24, 1965 - August 11, 2025).

Dr. Dee, our brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warrior, without fail, has finally found her release from the clutches of this world and a body. We celebrate Danielle Spencer and her contributions as we regret to inform her departure and transition from a long battle with cancer.

We have lost a daughter, sister, family member, “What’s Happening” cast member, veterinarian animal rights proponent and healer, and cancer heroine. Our Shero. Danielle is loved. She will be missed in this form and forever embraced. @ernestleethomas @extrap72 @cheryl.pelt.52 @danygirl624

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Images 1-2 and caption by artist @shirien.creates: Anas Al-Sharif was the face of Gaza to millions around the world. Just weeks ago, while interviewing a woman starving under Israel’s siege, he broke down in tears. A bystander encouraged him: “Keep going, you are our voice.”

On Sunday, Israel targeted and murdered Anas Al-Sharif, along with four other @aljazeera colleagues: Mohammed Quraiq, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal, the only surviving staff in Gaza. Freelance photojournalist Mohammad Al-Khaldi was also killed in the same strike. These were our storytellers. The lifeline between Gaza and the rest of the world.

Not only do they kill our people, bomb our hospitals, universities, schools, ancient landmarks, mosques, and churches—they are killing those who witness these crimes against humanity and dare to speak about what they have seen. Those brave enough to hold a camera, a microphone, a pen, and tell the world the truth.

Protection of journalists is an international human right, even in war and conflict. The gross complicity of major news outlets is disturbing and disheartening. Many first downplayed Anas’s murder, stripping away his humanity to serve Israel’s narrative. Some later backtracked, but the damage was done. This is how the media helps justify genocide: by dehumanizing us, pacifying the public, and making our slaughter seem acceptable.

Do not stay complicit. Join protests being held in their honor. Make noise. Hold our news outlets accountable... [Read more on the artist's IG account]

Images 3-10 and information reposted from @ajplus Israel killed journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammad al-Khaldi in a drone strike on their tents near al-Shifa hospital.

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Producer: Dikembe Wilkins

#Gaza #Palestine #JournalistKilled #AnasAlSharif #MohammedQreiqeh #IbrahimZaher #MohammedNoufal #MoamenAliwa

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#FreeDC #DCIsMy2ndHome

DC FAM - please be careful, get organized and protect each other.

That 34-count-convicted-felon threatening our freedoms must be stopped.

Images and information reposted from @freedcproject Earlier today Donald Trump announced that he is placing MPD under federal control and plans to deploy the National Guard to DC.

This is a dangerous escalation for our communities. But our people have been through things like this before.

Here are three ways everyone can help DC weather what's ahead, starting tonight.

#Felon47 #NationsCapitol

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Brava to #artist @amysherald for refusing to capitulate to transphobia, fascism and #Felon47. Also, you only have a few more days to see her exbition "American Sublime" at the @whitneymuseum, which closes August 10. RUN!

🖼1-2 & caption reposted from @newyorkermag Amy Sherald’s (@asherald) cover for this week’s issue, “Trans Forming Liberty,” is a portrait of the trans model and performance artist Arewà Basit. The art work is featured in Sherald’s show “American Sublime,” currently on view at the Whitney. The exhibition was originally set to open next month at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C.—until Sherald learned that the museum was considering removing the painting from the exhibit. Sherald, in response to her perception that the Smithsonian was capitulating to political pressure, decided to cancel her show.

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Amy Sherald Called Off Her Smithsonian Show Over ‘Censorship’

By Grey Battle, the Cut's editorial intern.

July 24, 2025

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: “Trans Forming Liberty,” by Amy Sherald, Kelvin Bulluck, Getty Images

Amy Sherald has withdrawn her solo show “American Sublime” from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery after being told that it was considering removing one of her paintings. The painting, Trans Forming Liberty, features a transgender Statue of Liberty, which had apparently prompted concern about provoking President Donald Trump.

“American Sublime” opened at the Whitney in New York in April and was originally set to travel to the Smithsonian in September. “I was informed by the National Portrait Gallery that concerns had been raised internally about the museum’s inclusion of a portrait of a trans woman titled Trans Forming Liberty,” Sherald said in a statement to the Cut, confirming her decision to call off the Smithsonian show. “These concerns led to discussions about removing the work from the exhibition.” According to the New York Times, Sherald said that Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian, suggested she replace Trans Forming Liberty with a video of people reacting to the painting and discussing transgender issues, but Sherald rejected the idea because the reactions would have included anti-trans rhetoric. She then decided to cancel the show altogether.

Since Trump took office, he’s dedicated ample time and energy to mandating essentialist definitions of gender and attacking access to gender-affirming care for trans youth. Meanwhile, he also took aim at cultural institutions, attempting to enforce anti-trans guidelines for agencies like the National Endowment for the Arts and prohibiting federal grants toward projects that promote “gender ideology.” In March, he issued an executive order specifically describing the Smithsonian as a “widespread effort to rewrite our nation’s history” that was under the influence of “divisive, race-centered ideology.” In a statement to the Times on Thursday, Lindsey Halligan, the special assistant to the president, used similar language, describing Sherald’s painting as “divisive and ideological.”

In her statement, Sherald said she found it “clear that institutional fear shaped by a broader climate of political hostility toward trans lives played a role” in the gallery’s concern. “At a time when transgender people are being legislated against, silenced, and endangered across our nation, silence is not an option,” she added. “I stand by my work. I stand by my sitters. I stand by the truth that all people deserve to be seen — not only in life, but in art.”

In a statement to the Cut, a spokesperson for the Smithsonian said, “By presenting and contextualizing art, the Smithsonian aims to inspire, challenge, and impact audiences in meaningful and thoughtful ways. Unfortunately, we could not come to an agreement with the artist.” The spokesperson also said that, contrary to the Times’ reporting, the video was proposed to “accompany the painting as a way to contextualize the piece,” not to replace it.

Sherald, who’s known for her grayscale portraits of women like Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, would have been the first Black contemporary artist to show at the Portrait Gallery. Her show, which includes almost 50 paintings spanning from 2007 to present, can be viewed at the Whitney through August 10.

🎥Video and caption reposted from @whitneymuseum “For Amy [Sherald], so much of what she thinks about is the beauty, and the range, and the vastness of the American people.” Whitney curator @rjkhckly takes us through Amy Sherald: American Sublime, @asherald’s survey exhibition on view now on our fifth floor.

A Conversation With Amy Sherald - The Whitney Museum.

On July 10, 2025, the Whitney hosted a conversation with artist Amy Sherald, writer and cultural commentator Touré, curator Rujeko Hockley, and artist and activist Arewà Basit on Amy Sherald: American Sublime. The panel discussed Sherald’s practice and her unique approach to representing Blackness through depictions of everyday Black Americans.

#AmySherald #BlackArtist #BlackGirlArtGeeks #FYP #BlackArtistsOnTikTok #ExhibitClosing

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Y'ALL!!! @audramcdonald is spell-binding as Mama Rose in @gypsybway!!!! Brava to her, the gorgeous @joynwoods as Louise and the entire cast. 🌹

GO SEE THIS ONE BEFORE IT CLOSES AUGUST 17 AT THE MAJESTIC THEATRE!!! This fantastic revival is the first time Rose and her daughters have been Black in a Broadway production of the musical, which is directed by THE George C. Wolfe and choreographed by Camille A. Brown. 🖤

This Thursday, August 7, is #BlackTheaterNight, which will feature a special conversation with McDonald and Wolfe, moderated by Gayle King following the performance.

Pro Tip: Go to the box office early to try to score in-person $49 Rush tickets, which are available on the day of the performance at 10:00 AM, Monday - Saturday, and 12:00 PM on Sunday. You can also try Digital Rush, which is available online for $54 at 11:00 AM. 📍Majestic Theatre - 245 W. 44th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues.

🎥 reposted from @gypsybway “Audra McDonald is our greatest living stage actor.” - Charlotte Alter, @time

"#GYPSY is bigger than Broadway—it’s a once-in-a-generation theatrical event. Created by the legendary Arthur Laurents (book), Jule Styne (music), and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), it is the crown jewel of American musicals. At long last, the greatest musical ever written returns with the most celebrated stage performer of our time.

6-time Tony Award® winner Audra McDonald steps into the mother of all roles alongside Tony Award winner Danny Burstein and rising Broadway stars Joy Woods and Jordan Tyson in this revelatory new production helmed by visionary director, 6-time Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe, and 4-time Tony Award-nominated choreographer Camille A. Brown (Hell’s Kitchen). This GYPSY, unlike any seen before, is Broadway’s ultimate tale of mothers and daughters, ambition and fame, and the lengths we’ll go in pursuit of the American dream. Packed with showstoppers like 'Everything’s Coming Up Roses,' 'Let Me Entertain You,' and 'You Gotta Get a Gimmick,' GYPSY shines as 'An immortal work of musical theater' (The New York Times)."

#BlackGirlTheaterGeeks

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TODAY (August 2) IN HARLEM ...

🎥✍️🏾reposted from @riseupnycconcerts Harlem! Get ready for one of the biggest nights of the summer! Rise Up NYC for a concert of free live performances from @realjohnnygill22 @officialbigdaddykane @therealdougefresh @crystalwaters @therealjeffredd @iamhoracebrown and to see Johnny Gill receive the Entertainer's Key To The City - August 2, 2025 in Harlem [at 125th Street, Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglas Blvds - Across from the Apollo], doors open at 5 pm, showtime starts at 6 pm.

#FreeInNYC #FreeConcert #riseupnyc #johnnygill #dougefresh #crystalwaters #bigdaddykane #HarlemWorld

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BRAVA to the Boogie Down's own @samarajoysings!

**Gooseboomps** from this clip of her recent #BBCProms "The Great American Songbook and Beyond" at @royalalberthall performance on July 19, 2025!

🎥reposted from @bbcarts @bbcconcertorchestra Five-time Grammy winner Samara Joy singing Lover Man, from her #BBCProms debut.

With classic songs and unique twists on classics from across jazz, backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, watch the full concert on #iPlayer | Listen on BBC Sounds.

Watch the full Lover Man performance on BBC Proms Must Watch Tracks - on iPlayer now.

✍️🏾reposted from @samarajoysings bbc proms debut!!! royal albert hall!! 🇬🇧

(still can’t believe it 😭)

the biggest shoutout to my band & their insane orchestrations!! more to come 🫶🏽✨

thank you @mihohazama & @bbcconcertorchestra !!

glammm

@joyadenuga

@dionnesmithhair

@justinplz

@thelmawestdiamonds

Thank you for your energy London!! Absolutely electric. I’ll see you soon 🤭🫶🏽

#SamaraJoy #Jazz #Vocalist #GrammyWinner

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#BetyeSaar 💞 #Hero #Legacy

Image and article reposted from @artnews The legendary artist Betye Saar, whose work speaks to histories of racism and survival in the face of it, celebrates her 99th birthday today [July 29, 2025].

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To ensure that future generations can continue to engage with the heart of her work, she’s asked nine curators to join an initiative known as the Betye Saar Legacy Group. The group, which includes Saar’s biographer Zoé Whitley, the Museum of Modern Art director Christophe Cherix, and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona director Elvira Dyangani Ose, will help ensure that museums, art historians, and critics wanting to know more about the artist can continue to do so in the decades to come.⁠

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“She wants next generations—future generations when she’s not around—to still be able to speak about her work in such a way that they respect her wishes,” Julie Roberts, a cofounder of Los Angeles’s Roberts Projects gallery, which has long represented Saar, said. “It’s not just a retrospective, and it’s not just a biography. It’s looking to the future.”⁠

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Photo Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh/Courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles.

#ArtistActivists #BlackWomenArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #ExhibitClosing

"Jack Whitten: The Messenger" - the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the groundbreaking, extraordinary #artist #JackWhitten - closes at @themuseumofmodernart on August 2, 2025.

#UNIQLOFridayNights

Tickets for UNIQLO Friday Nights are free for New York State residents, 5:30PM - 8:30PM but must be reserved in advance, and are subject to availability and proof of residency. Reserve tickets here:

Images 1- 10 and caption reposted from @themuseumofmodernart Jack Whitten created visionary beauty in the face of injustice.

Discover the dazzling work of this pathbreaking New York artist, who dared to invent new forms of painting and transformed the relationship between art, memory, and society in "Jack Whitten: The Messenger"- his first full survey exhibition.

Jack Whitten: The Messenger presents a revelatory history of the artist’s exploration of #race, #technology, #jazz, #love, and #war.

Caption reposted from @artnews A super-sized Jack Whitten exhibition in New York is “the best MoMA retrospective in the last five years,” according to ARTnews senior editor Alex Greenberger.⁠

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With more than 175 paintings, sculptures, and prints on view, the show traces how Whitten engineered new and experimental forms of abstraction. Working primarily in acrylic, he often did not make paintings that looked traditional in any sense. His squeegeed his paint, piled on wet layers, and even dried and cracked his acrylic, sculpting it into chips that he arranged to form mosaic-like works.⁠

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Greenberger writes, “For Whitten, one of the great painters of the past half century, everything was light—people, places, paintings, all of it. He was less interested in depicting light than in embodying it in paint, no small task.”⁠

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The show ... features works such as ‘Black Monolith VIII (For Maya Angelou),’ a 2015 piece mostly made of acrylic chips. “Instead of Angelou’s face,” Greenberger writes, “we get an oval-shaped mass of gnarled black elements ringed by a frame of acrylic chips, some lustrous, others rougher-hewn. From afar, those chips, arranged like the glass tiles of a mosaic, reflect back light. From up close, the painting’s black core glitters in shades of magenta. It’s a work that coruscates in ways not unlike its subject and its maker.”⁠

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#JackWhitten #MoMA #BlackGirlArtGeek #BlackArtists

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BABIES STARVING ANYWHERE SHOULD be a call to action everywhere.

The world is watching the people of Palestine being murdered, bombed, starved, jailed and displaced, and we must speak up against this genocide. I am sharing this image and information by artist Nikkolas Smith to amplify his fundraising efforts. Reposted from @nikkolas_smith What would you do if this was your child? The inhumanity and cruelty we’re seeing in Gaza is beyond unacceptable, and history will permanently and rightfully denounce the cruel warmongers responsible for these atrocities.

Enough with the headlines replacing “mass starvation & genocide” with “famine & conflict”.

44,000 murdered and countless more under threat of death due to Netanyahu’s deliberate and insidious food/water/medicine blockade.

Call it what it is. Do not look away.

#FeedTheChildrenOfGaza

#FeedGaza

PS: 500 tons of taxpayer-funded emergency aid biscuits (which could’ve fed 30,000 children) were just destroyed, because they recently “expired”, even though they’ve been sitting in a warehouse 3 hours from Palestine for months.