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  May 19, 1940 - February 2, 2024   Katie Cowles Nichols, 83, of Sarasota, Fla. and Ménerbes, France, passed away on Feb. 2, 2024. While on an airplane flying to see her youngest daughter, she suffered a stroke and quickly passed into a coma. Her last moments were of laughter with a favorite traveling companion, Noah Strauss-Jenkins. 

Presenting a profile of modern Black creativity, a new exhibition at The Wolfsonian–Florida International University spotlights the forces and figures behind a major American cultural movement and centers the museum’s exceptional holdings of rare books from the Harlem Renaissance. Silhouettes: Image and Word in the Harlem Renaissance—now open in Miami Beach, 100 years after Harlem’s

Presenting a profile of modern Black creativity, a new exhibition at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University spotlights the forces and figures behind a major American cultural movement and centers the museum’s exceptional holdings of rare books from the Harlem Renaissance. Silhouettes: Image and Word in the Harlem Renaissance—now open in Miami Beach, 100 years after Harlem’s

One of the singular accomplishments of Ed Ruscha’s long and varied career is to bring the hyperbolic image of the American billboard down to its actual size. Whether revealing the ass-end of the Hollywood sign or the lateral sprawl of Manifest Destiny down to its cinematic Sunset end, he’s served as sardonic witness to the country’s love/hate, super/under-sized relationship with itself.

651 ARTS - Brooklyn's premier institution for the African Diasporic performing arts- in partnership with The Billie Holiday Theatre (The Billie) - one of the nation's preeminent arts and culture organizations – will present a new innovative live performance series this Spring with the Song Salon.

Exhibition now on view at The Met

The show, opening January 25, is the first solo exhibition in the United States of the Afro-Brazilian artist.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) is pleased to announce two new site-specific installations coming to the MOCA plaza on July 29 and Oct. 14. Autumn Casey's “Cliff and April” and Chire “VantaBlack” Regans' “To What Lengths” were selected following MOCA's 2022 open call to artists for its “Art on the Plaza” series.

The Lowe Art Museum and the Cuban Heritage Collection partner for the first time to present a display that features Cuban American art from the 1980s.