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Nicola Vassell. Image courtesy Nicola Vassell. Photo: Luigi Cazzaniga. Few people in the art world have had a career as complex as Nicola Vassell’s. After leaving Jamaica for New York in the late ’90s to pursue a career as a fashion model and culture writer, Vassell landed some of the art industry’s most coveted roles, including directorial positions at Deitch Projects and Pace gallery, two New York art-world institutions. While at Deitch, Vassell worked with then-emerging artists such as...

Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop Whitney Museum of American Art // November 21, 2020 - March 28, 2021 December 15, 2020 | in Photography Anthony Barboza, Kamoinge Portrait, 1973. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Jack E. Chachkes Endowed Purchase Fund 2020.55. © Anthony Barboza Adger Cowans, Footsteps, 1960. Gelatin silver print, image: 8 1/4 × 13 5/16 in. (20.96 × 33.81 cm). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endo...