Possessions: Sadie Barnette and Leslie Hewitt

Jordan Jones writes about Leslie Hewitt’s series “Riffs on Real Time” and Sadie Barnette’s series of untitled drawings, which are held in the Museum's permanent collection, as a way to think about the word "possession."

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Ming Smith and the Poetics of Form

Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form… Without light, I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death.

— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

 

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Museums as Systems Sessions III & IV

In his collection of essays, The Delusions of Care (Archive Books, 2021), Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung opens with a short essay called “Act I: The Reciprocity of Care.” Ndikung asks us what it means when we say, “we need to take care of each other” as we experience “the re-blossoming o

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New Additions: Jadé Fadojutimi

New Additions is a series of interviews with artists whose work was newly acquired in the Studio Museum's permanent collection. This conversation features artist Jadé Fadojutimi in discussion of her work There Exists a Glorious World. Its Name? The Land of Sustainable Burdens. You can read or listen to the conversation below. 

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Diaspora

Scattered by migrations, voluntary and not, global Black populations have long contended with efforts to write them out of history. Along with the colonial impulse to capture and control vast swaths of already occupied land, the project of cultural erasure undergirds the expansion of empire.

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No One Can Be Viola Davis

In this Studio Check-In, Ilk Yasha speaks with poet and artist Shala Miller about writing and image, jazz vocalization, building a new world after grief, and welcoming your audience into the auditorium. 

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Love and Refusal in the Art of Juliana Huxtable, Texas Isaiah, and Toyin Ojih Odutola

Curatorial Assistant Habiba Hopson explores how art can be emblematic of the soul, and the impact that art can have on the fashioning of ones self identity.

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Renaissance of the Family Archive: The Personal Histories

On looking to family histories and records. 

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Black Art Is Labor

On liberation and labor.

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Alain LeRoy Locke and the Beloved Community

On Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance.

 

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