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Yinka Shonibare MBE at the Morris-Jumel Mansion

By Johanna Vermeer | Photos by Diane Allford Upon entering the Morris-Jumel Mansion there is a room to the left. Looking in, there is a mirror showing us, the visitors, ourselves. Or does it?Continue reading

Lorraine O’Grady Art Is… At The Studio Museum

Over the course of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O’Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.Continue reading

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Tom Ford, Tom Ford, Tom Ford For A Summer Harlem

These Tom Ford Miranda FT0130 sunglasses are that perfect blend of Harlem style - a bit of edge for the street, with a dash of tradition for the greet.Continue reading

Harlem Art Collective Tries to Better Community With Airbnb

Airbnb isn't all bad. Actually, when the site is used as it was intended, it can be pretty cool. Case in point, an artist collective in East Harlem is utilizing the site to rent out two rooms in its five-bedroom apartment and uses a portion of the proceeds to fund free art workshops for area residents, DNAinfo reports. Continue reading

Gavin Brown Moving New Gallery To Harlem

NYTimes reports that Harlem may be far from the madding crowd of galleries in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn. But this summer Gavin Brown is closing his Gavin Brown’s Enterprise shop on Greenwich Street in the West Village and moving his gallery to a former brewery at 461 West 126th Street.Continue reading

Danny Tisdale In Radical Presence: Black Performance In Contemporary Art At YBCA

Danny Tisdale's performance installation Transitions Inc., is included in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art a groundbreaking exhibition and the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black artists working from the perspective of the visual arts from the 1960's to the present at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).Continue reading

‘The Spirit of Dolls’ And Talk With Tanya Montegut In Harlem

[caption id="attachment_44789" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Tanya Montegut and Dolls by MonTQ were one of the featured vendors at the UConn Stamford 9th annual Black History Month Celebration Tuesday.
Hour photo / Erik Trautmann[/caption]

The Urban Thread Salon Series presents Film screening: Why Do You Have Black Dolls? by Samatha Knowles followed by The Spirit of Dolls: A conversation with doll artist Tanya Montegut at the Countee Cullen Library in Harlem US, NY.Continue reading

Steffani Jemison Sings Harlem Inspired Promise Machine At MOMA

On Thursday, June 25th, Brooklyn-based artist Steffani Jemison presents her new multipart commission Promise Machine, inspired by the Utopia Neighborhood Club, a Harlem-based women’s social service organization that directly supported Jacob Lawrence. Continue reading

Souleo: Vivian Green Is ‘Vivid’ And Carefree On New Album

Singer Vivian Green wants her fans to know that everything is fine. No, she is not going through romantic troubles as she effectively sang about on hit singles like “Emotional Rollercoaster” and “Gotta Go Gotta Leave.”Continue reading

Marc Bamuth Joseph’s Black Joy In The Hour Of Chaos In Harlem

One of the highlights of this creative season has been Marc Bamuth Joseph's Black Joy In The Hour Of Chaos, currently installed as one of several projects in Central Park that make up Drifting in Daylight, a collaborative project of Creative Time and the Central Park Conservancy. Continue reading

Bronx Teen’s Photographs to be on Display at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Angelica Calderon, a junior at St. Jean Baptiste High School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, will have an opportunity of a lifetime. Continue reading

Shop Harlem: Edge Art: Black Latino(a) Artists, An Inter Caribbean Dialogue

Here is a great summer read documenting the Edge Art: Black Latino(a) Artists, An Inter-Caribbean Dialogue exhibition. This show ran from February 4th trough the 26th in 2013 at The City College of New York in Harlem, New York. Continue reading

Become A Studio Museum In Harlem Fall 2015 Intern Now

Only individuals authorized to work for the Museum in the United States will be accepted into the Studio Museum In Harlem internship program. Continue reading

Dear Diaspora: Exploring Approaches to Teaching Locally and Thinking Globally

Join CCCADI for our 2015 showcase "Dear Diaspora", a culminating celebration of the achievements of our brilliant students and teaching artists in our Prek-12 arts-in-ed program, T.L.C.: Touching Living Culture. Continue reading

Harlem Cultural Art Tribute to Lena Horne

The occasion of this tribute to Lena Horne is to continue to plant the cultural and historical seeds of awareness, through the remembrance and homage to Lena Mary Calhoun Horne during the month of her birth (b. June thirtieth, 1917), 97 years ago in Brooklyn, NY. Continue reading