4 Rising Women in Art You Should Know
This month, here at AADAT!, we have chosen to celebrate the women who contribute to art within the Diaspora. Art has always been a great form of expression. Today with the help of the Internet, we have...
View Article[EXHIBITION] Raél Jero Salley, Present at Gallery Momo, July 9 – Aug 3
“I’m fascinated by notions of autonomy, liberation and freedom. My work explores the dynamic relationships between art and freedom in various modes. In this way, perhaps new visions can appear to show...
View Article[EXHIBITION] Beauté Congo, 1926 – 2015, Congo Kitoko (July 11 – Nov 15)
Beauté Congo – 1926-2015 – Congo Kitoko is being presented at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain with André Magnin, Chief Curator. Above: Jean Depara, Untitled, c. 1955-1965. Collection...
View Article[EXHIBITION] William Kentridge: Notes Towards a Model Opera at UCCA
UCCA presents a comprehensive retrospective of William Kentridge, including works from nearly every major project the artist has undertaken from 1988 to the present. The Ullens Center for Contemporary...
View Article[INTERVIEW] Kia Dyson on her Artistic Voice and Journey
Tell us about your voice as an artist. What themes do you seek to address in your work? My primary focus as an artist is to create images of black and brown people in all of our complexities. My goal,...
View ArticleThe Milk Bottle Project: A Memorial to Slavery
Pittsburgh-based artist Alexi Morrissey, like many Americans, never learned the excruciating details of the slave trade in school, “What we were taught was slavery was bad, the Yankees went down there...
View Article10 Caribbean Artists You Should Know
In this post written by Ellesse Garvin, learn about 10 Caribbean artists to know. Ebony G Patterson Meet the Jamaican based artist, Ebony G. Patterson, whose mixed media artwork questions the...
View ArticleLet Us Be Free: 7 Films Showing Carefree Black Kids
“How often does a black girl get the chance, in fiction, to be so unashamedly badass—for lack of a better term—without having to defend her race, her hair, her clothes, or any other thing about...
View Article17 International Art Exhibitions To See This October
This month’s featured exhibitions come from the Blaffer Art Museum (University of Houston), Black Cultural Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, David Krut Projects, Somerset...
View ArticlePreview: 27 Artists To See at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2015
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to London with its third edition, which welcomes 33 exhibitors and five invited Special Projects, presenting more than 150 artists. FORUM, 1:54’s...
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