Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Gordon Parks: Half and the Whole, on view at both gallery locations.
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See In Black – Vol. 001 Black In America.
Through the sale of highly-curated original images from Black photographers, they raise funds to support causes that align with their vision of Black prosperity.
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Virtual Tea w/ Justin Simien
An entertainment industry-focused casual conversation with writer/director Justin Simien.
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ARTNOIR Presents Virtual Visits w/ Ferrari Sheppard
Join ARTNOIR for their next Virtual Visit with Los Angeles based contemporary artist, Ferrari Sheppard.
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Tyler Mitchell Presents: Night at the Cinema
A 24-hour movie and video night by Tyler Mitchell. Live-streamed and free to the public. Including a range of feature films, short films, music videos, artist interviews, and random internet content. Themed Americana / I Can Make You Feel Good, his latest exhibition at The International Center of Photography (ICP).
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BLKNWS
Kahlil Joseph presents his latest work: BLKNWS, a two-channel video installation showing his actualized vision of an un-whitewashed news media.
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I Can Make You Feel Good
ICP presents the U.S. debut of Tyler Mitchell’s first solo show, “I Can Make You Feel Good,” featuring photography, video, and installation artwork, all organized around a central theme of “Black visual utopia.”
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Noah Davis
David Zwirner Gallery presents work by American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015), organized by Helen Molesworth.
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Happy Birthday, Toni! A Celebration of Black Women
BAM presents a film series in honor of Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison’s birthday. The series features screenings of Beloved, I Will Follow, & more.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
BRIC is beyond proud to present a free screening of Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-nominated film, If Beale Street Could Talk as part of their Black History is American History Month programming.
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Queen & Slim
A couple’s first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
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Ms. Lauryn Hill
Kickoff the New Year with Ms. Lauryn Hill at The United Palace. The Grammy award-winning artist will perform a medley of hits from her critically acclaimed, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” in addition to new music from the Queen and Slim soundtrack.
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Valley of The Dolls With Dionne Warwick
Metrograph presents a screening of the box office phenomenon Valley of The Dolls, featuring musical contributions by Dionne Warwick.
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Color Adjustment
MoMA presents a screening of Color Adjustment (1991), a film which explores the portrayals of African Americans on television, examining how the medium is an instrument for oppression, assimilation, and expression.
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Dolemite Is My Name
MoMA presents a screening of Dolemite Is My Name (2019), a film that delves into the charismatic comedian, musician, singer, film actor, and film producer, Rudy Ray Moore, portrayed by Eddie Murphy at his finest.
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The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art
Join the New Museum for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art, for a screening of STILL BEGINNING, commissioned by Visual AIDS.
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Barber Shop Chronicles
BAM presents the NY debut of Nigerian-British playwright Inua Ellams’ play, Barber Shop Chronicles.
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HERITAGE: Dapper Dan
Join The Schomberg for an in-depth conversation with Harlem son and vanguard of Hip Hop fashion, Daniel “Dapper Dan” Day.
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Clemency
MoMA presents a screening of Clemency (2019), the sophomore film directed by Chinonye Chukwu, starring Alfre Woodard.
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Dawoud Bey & Thelma Golden
For the fourth annual Lea K. Green Artist Talk, The Studio Museum in Harlem is proud to honor Dawoud Bey.
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Daughters of The Dust
MoMA presents a screening of Daughters of the Dust (1991), by Julie Dash.
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Times Talks: Queen & Slim
Melena Ryzik, culture reporter for The New York Times, hosts a pre-release screening of the unflinching new drama Queen & Slim, followed by a conversation with the film’s Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Lena Waithe (Netflix’s, Master of None).
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The Futurism is Ours: Born In Flames
Born In Flames imagines a not-so-distant New York City set 10 years after a peaceful social democratic revolution.
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A Night with yasiin bey and Friends
Celebrating the opening weekend of yasiin bey: Negus, join the artist formerly known as Mos Def along with his collaborators and friends for an evening of dancing and DJ sets.
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Harlem Doc Fest: The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion
The first annual Harlem Doc Fest is pleased to present a screening of The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion, a documentary that explores the rise of Hip Hop and Fashion surrounding artists like Mary J. Blige, Lil Kim & Missy Elliot.
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Jordan Casteel: Within Reach
The New Museum presents the first solo museum exhibition in New York City of Jordan Casteel, bringing together nearly forty paintings spanning the career of the Denver born artist.
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Madame Satã
MoMA presents a screening of Madame Satã (2002), by Director Karim Aïnouz. Aïnouz’s debut feature is based on the life of black, queer, Brazilian drag performer and capoeirista, João Francisco dos Santos.
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Waves
Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida and featuring an astonishing ensemble of actors, Waves traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban family—led by a well-intentioned but domineering father—as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of loss.
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Downtown 81
In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed-out bohemia that they knew, with a script by O’Brien, Bertoglio directing, and Basquiat, a naturally compelling presence, starring.
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Aperture Conversations: The New Black Vanguard
Celebrating the forthcoming Aperture title The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, this conversation will address the radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today.
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Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Diamond Stingily
Parsons’ School of Art presents an artist lecture from Chicago-born artist, writer, and poet, Diamond Stingily.
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Dozie Kanu: Function
The Studio Museum in Harlem and Dozie Kanu invite you to join them in celebration of Dozie Kanu: Function, the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition at Studio Museum 127.
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Times Talks: Questlove
Join The Times for a festive and fun conversation about food, music and creativity with co-founder of The Roots, D.J., producer, best-selling author and culinary entrepreneur Questlove.
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Art Lab: Create Sneaker Art with Gianni Lee
Join visual artist Gianni Lee to create sneaker art during Apple Williamsburg’s Sneaker Design and Culture series.
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Devan Shimoyama – The GAG
De Buck Gallery is pleased to announce The GAG, a group show curated by Devan Shimoyama and featuring work by Alex Anderson, Devan Shimoyama, Didier William, and Jonathan Lyndon Chase.
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Porgy and Bess
One of America’s favorite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years.
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Shadows
A pioneering work of American indie cinema, John Cassavetes’s directorial debut centers on the life of three African American siblings—all musicians—in New York City during the Beat generation.
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Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Tschabalala Self
Parsons’ School of Art presents an artist lecture from Harlem-born painter, Tschabalala Self.
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Open Spectrum: Ballroom Has Something to Say
Get your 10s in this voguing class co-taught by FX’s Pose cast member Jason A Rodriguez and Ballroom Icon Pony Zion.
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What Time Is It? It’s Showtime NYC!
What Time Is It? is a multi-disciplinary performance presented by It’s Showtime NYC! (ISNYC!) that invites audiences to learn more about New York City through the embodiment of our city’s own street dance culture.
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Rashaad Newsome : Black Magic: Five
Rashaad Newsome presents, FIVE, a multimedia performance that abstracts the art of Vogue Femme, incorporating five dancers that represent the five elements of Vogue.
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Ailey Revealed
Join Alvin Ailey for their five-week season, Ailey Revealed, at New York City Center.
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Black Icons of Art: Antwaun Sargent
Visit the Greene Space for an installment of Black Icons of Art, an intimate and unfiltered conversation, featuring the prolific writer, curator and critic Antwaun Sargent.
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Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love
Japanese, contemporary Artist, Yayoi Kusama, known for her Infinity Rooms, presents an exhibition of entirely new work—including paintings, sculptures, an immersive installation, and the debut of Infinity Mirrored Room – Dancing Lights That Flew Up To The Universe.
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FKA twigs – Magdalene
FKA twigs summons all that she has – technical mastery, creative brilliance, and physical endurance – to transport her audience into a new artistic realm.
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Times Talks: Harriet
Melena Ryzik, culture reporter for The New York Times, hosts a prerelease screening of “Harriet,” the new biopic of abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman, followed by a conversation with two of the film’s stars, Tony Award-winning actors Cynthia Erivo (“The Color Purple”) and Leslie Odom Jr. (“Hamilton”).
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For Colored Girls
The groundbreaking choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf makes its return to The Public, where it was originally seen before transferring to Broadway in 1976.
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Vampire in Brooklyn
Eddie Murphy teamed up with horror legend Wes Craven for this offbeat lark in which he plays a Caribbean Nosferatu roaming the streets of Kings County as he sets out to seduce Angela Bassett’s NYPD detective over to the dark side.
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Ganja and Hess
Vampire and Afrocentric mythologies collide in Bill Gunn’s visionary avant-horror freakout.
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Portrait of Jason
Hustler Jason Holliday slips seamlessly from comedy to tragedy, and back again, in a marathon all-night session filmed at Shirley Clarke’s Chelsea Hotel pad.
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Between the World and Me
The theatrical event Between the World and Me, takes difficult but necessary conversations around Black life and death and places them center stage.
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Amazing Grace
Over two days in January of 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, backed by the Southern California Community Choir.
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The Most Scared I’ve Ever Been Film Series
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, playwright Jeremy O. Harris, actress Zazie Beetz, and actor-writer David Rysdahl as they present the films that made them the most scared they’ve ever been.
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The Legends of Black Girl’s Window
The MoMA presents 42, rare, early works on paper from artist Betye Saar – who created her autobiographical assemblage Black Girl’s Window in 1969.
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yasiin bey: Negus
The Brooklyn Museum is proud to present the U.S. debut of yasiin bey: Negus, a listening installation of yasiin bey’s latest studio recording, which will not be released on any digital or physical platform.
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BAM: The New Black Vanguard
Antwaun Sargent celebrates the launch of The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion.
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INDVLST Screen Printing Workshop
Join INDVLST Lab for a screen printing class with founder, Emiliano Dacayanan (AKA Tek).
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The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion presents fifteen artists, whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries.
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Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century
Cross Colours, the African American-owned clothing brand, founded by Carl Jones and T.J. Walker, is featured in its first exhibition at the California African American Museum.
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BAM and Black Portraiture[s]: Responding to Garrett Bradley’s America
In this special one-night event at BAM, a selection of leading moving image scholars reflect on Garrett Bradley’s new short America.
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West Side Story
Ivo van Hove, the Belgian theatre director known for staging hypermodern takes on classic plays, operas, novels and even films, brings his unique lens to what he calls a West Side Story for the 21st Century to Broadway.
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Downtown 81
In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed-out bohemia that they knew.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation: The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates (author of Between The World and Me) hits the Apollo stage to discuss his first novel with Oprah.
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Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records
Catch the Brooklyn premiere of, the documentary, Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records, the iconic Jamaican-British record label that introduced reggae, ska, and rocksteady music to a global audience.
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Slave Play
Slave Play is coming to Broadway. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, this “dazzling mix of satire and psychodrama” (The New York Times) is directed by two-time NAACP and Obie Award® winner Robert O’Hara.
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Amy Sherald: the heart of the matter…
With ‘the heart of the matter…,’ her inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, Sherald debuts a suite of new paintings that reinforces the multiplicities of African-American life and invites viewers to reconsider commonly accepted notions of race and representation.
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Purpose and Passion: The Cinema of John Singleton
BAM invites their guests to celebrate the work of John Singleton, the late cinema legend who brought us Shaft and Poetic Justice.
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Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us
The NewOnes, will free Us, by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, inaugurates an annual commission to animate The Met’s historic facade.
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As Much As I Can
One part moral obligation, one part story within a story, one part EXTRAVAGANZA: “AS MUCH AS I CAN” asks all of us what part we are willing to play in ending the AIDS epidemic in the United States.
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The Cutting Room Floor Live! Presented by Recho Omondi and The A/D/O Shop
Recho Omondi, founder of fashion line OMONDI and creator of The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) podcast, will interview Ingrid Kwon, Head of Research and Development at KITH.
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Pyer Moss Collection 3
Kerby Jean-Raymond, Creative Director of Pyer Moss unveils the 3rd part of “American, Also,” the 3 part fashion collection created to uncover stories of black peoples’ contribution to popular American culture.
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Flying Lotus In 3D
Affectionately known by long-time fans as “FlyLo”, Flying Lotus graces the Brooklyn Mirage stage, as a part of the Flamagra North American Tour.
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AFROPUNK 2019
AFROPUNK returns to Brooklyn this summer featuring headline shows with Jill Scott, Lianne La Havas, FKA twigs, Santigold, NAO, Tierra Whack, and more.
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Documenting the Nameplate x Nuevayorkinos: An archiving event
Documenting the Nameplate and Nuevayorkinos team to bring a celebration of NYC nostalgia and nameplate culture to Abrons Arts Center.
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Community Lunch: DeVonn Francis, Yardy
Hosted at Coffey Park, join Pioneer Works staff, artists-in-residents, and friends for this month’s installment of Community Lunch. DeVonn Francis of Yardy, a food and art production company of Caribbean origins, will provide lunch and beverages for all attendees in the spirit of artistic and communal engagement.
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Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
A part of the Another Country: Outsider Visions of America series, this documentary is about the legendary political activist, Angela Davis during a most significant time.
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Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Blood Orange x Kelsey Lu
Blending together elements of R&B, funk, and ‘80s pop, Blood Orange is the most recent project of British producer and singer Dev Hynes.
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Actress / Susie Ibarra / Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown Jr.)
ISSUE presents a special “end of season” program gathering three avant-garde musicians.
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Moonlight
Moonlight returns to the big screen for one night only at BAM Rose Cinemas.
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem
Streetwear legend, Dapper Dan, graces the stage to mark the arrival of his new memoir Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem.
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Do the Right Thing: 30th Anniversary
30 years after its premiere, Spike Lee’s infamous Do the Right Thing continues to be a must-see for New Yorkers and visitors alike.
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The Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is an unmissable event for anyone interested in finding out what’s happening in art today.
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Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989
The Leslie-Lohman Museum presents the first major exhibition showcasing the influence of the LGBTQ civil rights movement on the art world.
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Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
The American Federation of Arts is pleased to present curators and artists in conversation on the occasion of the national tour of the AFA exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
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a simple song
Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York is pleased to present a simple song by 2018 Workspace Resident Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history.
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