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A rare Black-owned art gallery lands in Chelsea The entrance to Nicola Vassell’s new gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, May 17, 2021. After working with artists like Kehinde Wiley and advising collectors like Swizz Beatz, Vassell bucks the online trend with a brick-and-mortar space. Donavon Smallwood/The New York Times. by Robin Pogrebin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- At a moment when equity and diversity have become paramount in the art world, Nicola Vassell, a former director of both Pa...

Nicola Vassell. Photo courtesy of Nicola Vassell. Nicola Vassell has been a leading tastemaker in the New York art world for more than a decade. She’s held director roles at Pace Gallery and Deitch Projects, and helped music producer Swizz Beatz and his wife, Alicia Keys, build a world-class art collection and an art fair, No Commissions, where artists take home 100 percent of their sales. Now, the curator, writer, and art advisor is at last opening her own gallery. “This has been a lon...

Frieze New York art fair: seeing Black lives differently Reuters 2 days ago By Alexandra Michalska NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) - At the Frieze art fair in New York, over 60 leading galleries are paying tribute to social justice, showing works by the worlds most influential artists. The goal is to change how we see the world by examining arts role in portraying race and citizenship. It expands on The Vision & Justice Project, a landmark 2016 issue by Aperture magazine on photography in the Afric...

The Armory Show to kick off New Yorks fall arts season, featuring 194 international exhibitors for its 2021 edition The fair will take place at its new home, The Javits Center, from September 9-12, 2021. Image courtesy of Javits Center. NEW YORK, NY .-The Armory Show announced the exhibitor list for its 2021 edition, featuring 194 leading international galleries from 38 countries. The fair will take place from September 9-12, 2021 at the state-of-the-art Javits Center – The Armory Show’s new,...

Young Woman Drawing (1801). The painting was the cover image on  ARTnews for the 1971 publication of Linda Nochlin’s article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. MoMA hosts a virtual forum on critic Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” published in  ARTnews in 1971. On the occasion of the article’s 50th anniversary, Roxana Marcoci, the museum’s senior photography cura...

Ming Smith, the first female member of the Kamoinge Workshop, into dialogue with critic and musician Greg Tate, one of the book’s contributors. Presenting four decades of Smith’s work, the publication celebrates her enduring vision and ongoing contributions to the medium of photography. The program is introduced by Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator Presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, this series of programs features conversations with artists from the Kamoi...

Are you having trouble focusing, feeling lonely or hopeless, lacking motivation, withdrawing from people? These are some of the symptoms of pandemic fatigue, a condition brought on by the stresses and fears of the past year, combined with having too much free time. The hallmark of pandemic fatigue is a sense of inner weariness, says UCLA Health. The bad news is that the pandemic will linger for a while, but the good news is that there are ways to counteract the mental and emotional toll and cul...

Adger Cowans, Footsteps, 1960. (Courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund / The Whitney Museum of American Art) When the Kamoinge Workshop began in 1963, taking its name from a Kikuyu word meaning “a group of people acting together,” a few Black photographers had already gained some prominence. Gordon Parks was probably chief among them. After starting as a portraitist in Chicago, he had gone on to work during the war years with the renowned photography pr...

/ Unlike London, New York galleries are open for business. After my first Covid jab last week, a wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the frigid downtown streets. Luckily, this gallery field trip coincided with a dear friend’s much-heralded solo show, an introduction to work by two inspiring artists I previously did not know of, and even the Outsider Art Fair’s annual and beloved event, spread between galleries. Monday New York was blanketed with an unusually dramatic snowstorm, s...

7 Photobooks That Consider Black Lives and Artistic Visions From Carrie Mae Weems and Ming Smith to “Black Is Beautiful” and “The New Black Vanguard,” here are essential Aperture publications for our moment. Kwame Brathwaite, A school for one of the many modeling groups that had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s, ca. 1966 Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles Featured - February 11, 2021 Carrie Mae Weems, Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gall...