Rosemary Karuga, Untitled, 1998. (Images courtesy of Red Hill Art Gallery)
A vast chapter of the still mostly untold story of women’s art in Kenya starts with Rosemary Namuli Karuga. Karuga passed away on 9 February 2021 at the age of 93. She was one of the pioneers who made major contributions to contemporary art on the continent and is recognised as one of the finest East African artists of her generation.
Karuga is known for her collage works depicting pastoral and domestic African scenes, commonly villagers and farmers and animals. They would go on to be shown internationally, but she only began to produce commercial art in her 60s, once she had retired from teaching.
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Tuesday, March 30
7:00 p.m. EDT
Aperture and Rockefeller Center are pleased to host a discussion between esteemed photographer Jamel Shabazz and writer Tanisha C. Ford. Since the early 1980s, Shabazz has photographed New York’s street life and hip-hop culture with joy, verve, and style. His work not only captures the essence and pureness of hip-hop culture in New York, but also the deep connections he has with his subjects and community. For this event, Shabazz and Ford will discuss Shabazz’s career, his lasting legacy, how quarantine has given him time to rediscover hidden gems in his archive, and the installation of work at Rockefeller Center through April.
Thursday, April 22
Join Aperture and Rockefeller Center for a discussion between Nicole Acheampong, assistant editor of
Aperture magazine, and photographers Widline Cadet and Rafael Rios as they speak about their work featured in the “New York” issue, and on crafting intimate portraits of friends and family. In her series
Soft, Cadet makes dreamlike, black-and-white photographs of friends embracing in New York City parks, while Rios’s
Family series captures vibrant flashes of his extended Puerto Rican family’s everyday life in Brooklyn. Both artists, commissioned by Aperture to make brand-new work for this issue, have expanded their long-term projects to offer new ways of seeing the tenderness and tenacity of community, a vital offering at a moment of social distancing.