Noah Davis at David Zwirner Gallery, NY
BLACK ARTISTS WON NUMEROUS AWARDS, joined main artwork galleries, and printed lavishly illustrated books about their work in 2020. Early within the 12 months, Christine Turner’s documentary “Betye Saar: Taking Care of Enterprise” screened at Sundance, an expansive survey of Los Angeles painter Noah Davis opened at David Zwirner gallery, and “Working Collectively: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop” on the Virginia Museum of High-quality Arts provided a complete look again on the first 20 years of the New York collective of Black photographers.
Then COVID-19 hit and racial justice protests swept throughout the nation within the wake of the police homicide of George Floyd, and numerous different Black individuals. The worldwide pandemic, racial reckoning, and contentious Presidential election outlined 2020.
Towards this backdrop, museums and galleries quickly shutdown and artists and cultural staff confronted lowered incomes, whereas arts nonprofits contended with finances shortfalls. In response, foundations launched new grant packages to assist artists and organizations in want. Artwork festivals migrated on-line and establishments enhanced their web sites with digital programming, pictures and movies documenting exhibitions, and Zoom calls facilitating panel discussions and talks with artists and curators.
In the meantime, at one museum after one other, employees and former employees accused management of fostering cultures of racism and white supremacy. It was an emotionally draining and extremely illuminating 12 months with artists typically expressing themselves by responding to the local weather and sharing their very own experiences in quarantine.
Regardless of the challenges, the artwork world continued to churn and African American artists pressed on. Painter Titus Kaphar joined Gagosian gallery. Brooklyn-based sculptor Simone Leigh was chosen to symbolize america on the 57th Venice Biennale in 2022. Photographer Deana Lawson received the Hugo Boss Award. Los Angeles-based, multidisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith obtained the Wein Artist Prize from the Studio Museum in Harlem. Sculptures by Wangechi Mutu had been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York and Trendy Artwork Museum of Fort Value in Texas.
The next evaluation presents highlights of the 12 months in Black Artwork—key information, exhibitions, awards, appointments, and extra:
NOAH DAVIS | Major exhibition of late Los Angeles artist Noah Davis (1983-2015) opens Jan. 16 at David Zwirner Gallery in New York. Helen Molesworth organizes, saying “his work are each figurative and summary, practical and dreamlike; they’re about blackness and the historical past of Western portray.” Present options greater than 20 work by Davis, explores his bold institutional mission (The Underground Museum), and showcases movie set up by his brother Kahlil Joseph (“BLKNWS”), sculpture by his spouse Karon Davis, and furnishings by his mom Religion Childs-Davis. Fully illustrated catalog is printed to accompany exhibition. | High, Set up view, “Noah Davis,” David Zwirner, New York, 2020; Above, “Untitled,” 2015 (oil on canvas, 32 x 50 inches). Each Courtesy The Property of Noah Davis and David Zwirner
JANUARY
MAGAZINES > | January 2020: Religion Ringgold‘s “American Individuals #20: Die” (1967) portray covers January issue of Artforum.
REPRESENTATION | Jan. 14, 17: Los Angeles painter Henry Taylor and Brooklyn-based sculptor Simone Leigh be part of Hauser & Wirth gallery. Learn Extra here and here
APPOINTMENTS | Jan. 14: Bennie F. Johnson named executive director of AIGA, the New York Metropolis-based skilled affiliation for design.
AWARDS & HONORS | Jan. 15: Vancouver-based Stan Douglas, who works in movie, images, and theater manufacturing, selected to represent Canada at 59th Venice Biennale. (In Might, the worldwide exhibition is postponed from 2021 to 2022, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.)
ACQUISITIONS | Jan. 15: Forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Artwork in Los Angeles acquires A Separate Cinema Archive, an enormous assortment assembled by John Duke Kisch over 4 many years. Archive of greater than 37,000 gadgets paperwork greater than century of African American movie, from 1904 to 2019, offering “complete and sweeping view of historical past of black cinematic manufacturing.”
APPOINTMENTS | Jan. 17: Chisenhale Gallery in London publicizes Zoé Whitley will serve as subsequent director.
AWARDS & HONORS | Jan. 20: Theaster Gates receives 2020 Crystal Award, celebrating distinctive contributions artists make to society, at World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland.
Jan. 20: “Tschabalala Self: Out of Body” opens at Institute of Up to date Artwork Boston. Presentation is Tschabalala Self‘s largest exhibition so far and first present in Boston. She is acknowledged for “large-scale figurative work that combine hand-printed and located textiles, drawing, printmaking, stitching, and collage methods to inform tales of city life, the physique, and humanity.” | TSCHABALALA SELF, “Out of Physique,” 2015 (oil and cloth collage on canvas, 72 x 60 inches). © Tschabalala Self. Acquavella Galleries, Photograph by Charles Mayer
APPOINTMENTS | Jan. 22 | Writer, scholar, and visible artist Nell Painter appointed chair of MacDowell Colony Board of Administrators in Peterborough, N.H.
AWARDS & HONORS | Jan. 22: United States Artists publicizes 2020 USA Fellows, every receiving $50,000 unrestricted grants. Visible arts recipients are Melvin Edwards, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Howardena Pindell, Cameron Rowland, Martine Syms, and Nari Ward.
TELEVISION | Jan. 23: Kehinde Wiley appears on Each day Present with Trevor Noah, discusses monumental “Rumors of Struggle” sculpture and portrait of President Barack Obama.
AWARDS & HONORS | Jan. 22: Arkansas artist Kevin Cole receives Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award from Georgia Museum of Artwork at College of Georgia. Honor contains exhibition, “Kevin Cole: Soul Ties,” opening Jan. 25.
EXHIBITIONS | Jan. 24: “Living Color: The Art of the Highwaymen” opens at Orlando Museum of Artwork, specializing in Florida Highwaymen, Black panorama artists energetic in Fort Pierce space starting in Nineteen Fifties.
FILMS | Jan. 28: Directed by Christine Turner and produced by Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, New York Instances Op-Docs quick documentary “Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business” premieres on-line. Screened at Sundance 2020, movie explores observe of Los Angeles-based assemblage artist Betye Saar.
AUCTIONS | Jan. 30: Swann Public sale Galleries in New York auctions art collection of Johnson Publishing Firm—87 works by African American artists as soon as displayed in Chicago workplaces of writer of Ebony and Jet magazines.
APPOINTMENTS | Jan. 30: Davida Lindsay-Bell joins San Francisco Museum of Trendy Artwork as chief human sources officer.
NEWS | Jan. 31: Hale Woodruff‘s Amistad murals unveiled at new Talladega Faculty museum in Alabama. Talladega commissioned Woodruff to color murals in 1938. In 2011, historic murals had been eliminated, conserved and traveled to a number of museums on a multi-city tour.
TYLER MITCHELL | “I Can Make You Feel Good,” fast-rising photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell’s first U.S. solo exhibition opens Jan. 25 at Worldwide Middle of Pictures (ICP) in New York Metropolis. Deliberate for 4 months, closes early as a consequence of pandemic. ICP reschedules for added fall/winter run (Oct. 1, 2020-Jan. 3, 2021). Accompanying catalog launched in August. In Might, Mitchell who got here to prominence as first Black photographer to shoot cowl of American Vogue (Beyoncé for September 2018 concern), joins United Talent Agency (for potential movie and TV tasks) and Jack Shainman Gallery announces representation Sept. 29. | TYLER MITCHELL, “Boys of Walthamstow,” 2018, © Tyler Mitchell, Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: “Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop” opens at Virginia Museum of High-quality Arts in Richmond, chronicles first 20 years of Kamoinge Workshop, New York collective of Black photographers based in 1963. | ANTHONY BARBOZA (b. 1944), “Kamoinge Members,” 1973 (Gelatin silver print: sheet, 13 15/16 × 11 1/16 inches). Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York, 2020.55. © Anthony Barboza
BOOKS | Feb. 1: Asmaa Walton begins Black Artwork Library on Instagram as Black Historical past Month Challenge, initially posting pictures of exhibition catalogs and monographs devoted to artwork produced by Black artists. She solicits guide donations, begins internet hosting pop-up shows of assortment, and finally pursues grander imaginative and prescient with plans for brick-and-mortar area to accommodate library in Detroit. Read More
AWARDS & HONORS | Feb. 4: Faculty Artwork Affiliation announces 2020 Awards for Distinction, with Denise Murrell receiving Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions for her catalog “Posing Modernity: The Black Model From Manet and Matisse to Today,” and Frank Jewett Mather Award for Artwork Criticism going to Darby English for “To Describe a Life: Notes From the Intersection of Art and Race Terror.”
FILM | Feb. 6: “Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story,” documentary by Royal Kennedy Rodgers about pioneering Los Angeles architect Paul R. William, begins airing on PBS stations throughout United States. Watch Trailer/Full Film
AWARDS & HONORS | Feb. 6: LaToya Ruby Frazier named inaugural recipient of the Gordon Parks Basis/Steidl Ebook Prize.
EXHIBITIONS | Feb. 6: “Mary Lovelace O’Neal: Chasing Down the Image” opens at Mnuchin Gallery. Surveying 5 many years, from Nineteen Sixties to 2000s, exhibition is Mary Lovelace O’Neal‘s first solo presentation in New York Metropolis in 25 years.
EXHIBITIONS > | Feb. 7: “Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door,” main exhibition of Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), opens in artist’s hometown at Knoxville Museum of Artwork in Tennessee. | BEAUFORD DELANEY, “Darkish Rapture (James Baldwin),” 1941 (oil on Masonite, 34 x 28 inches). | © Property of Beauford Delaney, Knoxville, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court docket Appointed Administrator; Assortment of halley okay harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York
AWARDS & HONORS | Feb. 10: American Craft Council (ACC) awards 2020 Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship to Baltimore bead artist Joyce J. Scott. ACC Awards given biannually since 1970.
ACQUISITIONS | Feb. 11: From Gordon Parks Basis, Museum of Trendy Artwork acquires 56 photographs, collection on U.S. crime Gordon Parks shot for Life journal in 1957.
AWARDS & HONORS | Feb. 11: Jamal D. Cyrus wins 2020 David C. Driskell Prize, together with $25,000 money award.
AUCTIONS | Feb. 12: “Mother” (2013) by Jordan Casteel, portrait of artist’s mom, sells for 515,250 British Kilos ($666,734) at Christie’s London, setting new auction record for Harlem-based Casteel.
AWARDS & HONORS | Feb. 12: British artist Sonia Boyce chosen to stage solo present in British Pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale in 2022 (postponed from 2021 because of the pandemic). She is first Black girl to symbolize UK at worldwide exhibition.
EXHIBITIONS | Feb. 13: Based mostly on new scholarship, “Boston’s Apollo” opens at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, exploring relationship between John Singer Sargent and Thomas McKeller, younger Black elevator attendant at Boston’s Resort Vendome who was mannequin for artist’s gods and goddesses mural commissioned by Museum of High-quality Arts Boston in 1916. Read More
LIVES | Feb. 14: James V. Hatch dies. He was 91. Writer, playwright, and theater historian was married to artist and filmmaker Camille Billops (1933-2019). Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives, containing 1000’s of things associated to African American visible and performing arts courting again to 1968, had been donated to Emory College in Atlanta in 2002.
EXHIBITIONS | Feb. 15: “Dawoud Bey: An American Project,” full-scale retrospective of Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey, opens at San Francisco Museum of Trendy Artwork in San Francisco.
EXHIBITIONS | Feb. 20 | “Awakened in You: The Collection of Dr. Constance E. Clayton” opens at Pennsylvania Academy of the High-quality Arts, that includes greater than 70 works by African American artists gifted to PAFA by native collector Constance Clayton, first girl and first African American superintendent of Philadelphia’s public colleges.
Feb. 19: “Jordan Casteel: Within Reach,” first solo museum exhibition in New York of portrait painter Jordan Casteel opens at New Museum. Watch Virtual Tour | JORDAN CASTEEL, “Serwaa and Amoakohene,” 2019 (oil on canvas, 90 x 78). © Jordan Casteel, Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery
ACQUISITIONS | Feb. 19: Library of Congress acquires more than 100,000 images from Harlem photographer Shawn Walker, assortment of pictures, negatives, and transparencies, his whole archive and substantial holdings representing Kamoinge Workshop.
AWARDS & HONORS | Feb. 22: Artist Rashid Johnson wins NAACP Image Award for “Native Son” within the Excellent Directing in a Movement Image (Tv) class.
EXHIBITIONS | Feb. 29: “Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition” opens at Phillips Assortment. Visitor curated by Adrienne L. Childs, she is first Black curator to prepare an exhibition at Washington, D.C., museum.
BISA BUTLER | First solo museum exhibition of Bisa Butler opens at Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, N.Y. (March 15) and travels to Art Institute of Chicago (Nov. 16), with fully illustrated catalog printed to accompany “Bisa Butler: Portraits.” Throughout 12 months, New Jersey artist’s vivid, quilted portraits seem on journal covers and are acquired by main museums, together with Artwork Institute of Chicago and Newark Museum of Artwork. | BISA BUTLER, “The Security Patrol,” 2018. The Artwork Institute of Chicago, Cavigga Household Belief Fund, © Bisa Butler
MARCH
March 2: “Duro Olowu: Seeing” is printed every now and then of exhibition guest-curated by London-based designer Duro Olowu, at Museum of Up to date Artwork Chicago.
EXHIBITIONS | March 2: Prospect New Orleans publicizes artist checklist for Prospect 5, together with Mark Bradford, Willie Birch, Simone Leigh, Dawoud Bey, Glenn Ligon, Karon Davis, Naudline Pierre, and Kevin Beasley.
ART FAIRS | March 6: Los Angeles artist June Edmonds wins inaugural AWARE Prize at Armory Present in New York, for solo presentation with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. $10,000 juried prize awarded by Archives of Girls Artists, Analysis and Exhibitions, Paris-based nonprofit with mission “to reposition girls artists within the canon of twentieth century artwork historical past.”
APPOINTMENTS | March 10: Mississippi Museum of Artwork in Jackson, Miss., names Ryan N. Dennis chief curator and inventive director. She joins museum from Challenge Row Homes in Houston, the place she had been curator and packages director since 2017.
AUCTIONS | March 10: Bonhams in Los Angeles auctions estate of pioneering and glamorous actress Diahann Carroll (1935-2019), together with head sculpture by Artis Lane.
EXHIBITIONS | March 13: “Terry Adkins: Resounding” opens at Pulitzer Arts Basis in St. Louis, Mo., coinciding with exhibitions devoted to Terry Adkins (1953-2014) at Frist Artwork Museum and Carl Van Vechten Artwork Gallery at Fisk College, each in Nashville, Tenn.
AWARDS & HONORS | March 20: Los Angeles artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph wins 2020 Eye Art & Film Prize. Award from Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and Paddy & Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund helps “new developments at interface between visible artwork and movie” and contains £25,000.
LIVES | March 23: Maurice Berger (1956-2020), curator and artwork historian who wrote about race and whiteness a era earlier than it was on pattern in mainstream artwork world, dies at residence in Craryville, N.Y. (“Exhibiting extreme signs” of COVID-19, he was by no means examined for virus.) He was 63.
APPOINTMENT | March 30: Isimeme (Meme) Omogbai appointed executive director and CEO of Faculty Artwork Affiliation (CAA) in New York.
TITUS KAPHAR | Gagosian gallery announces representation of Titus Kaphar in April, with association including support for NXTHVN. New Haven, Conn., up to date artwork area co-founded by artist, gives mentorship {and professional} improvement for rising artists and aspiring curators by way of fellowship and mentorship packages. “From a Tropical Space,” Kaphar’s first exhibition with Gagosian opens in New York Oct. 1, coinciding with “The Evidence of Things Unseen,” Maruani Mercier gallery present offered in deconsecrated church in Brussels. | Titus Kaphar, Studio in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 4, 2020. Photograph by John Lucas, Courtesy Gagosian
APRIL
April 1: An establishment unto himself, illustrious artist and scholar David C. Driskell (1931-2020) dies, as a consequence of issues from coronavirus (COVID-19), in Washington, D.C. He was 88. Artists, curators, students says he “was an agitator for African American artwork” and “lit the best way in our lives and careers.” | At Left, David Driskell at his studio, 2010. Courtesy Portland Museum of Artwork, Maine. Photograph by “David Driskell at his studio, 2010. Courtesy Portland Museum of Artwork, Maine. {Photograph} by Jack Montgomery.”
AWARDS & HONORS | April 9: 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships announced with positive arts recipients together with artists Sanford Biggers, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Steve Locke, and Victoria-Idongesit Udondian.
AWARDS & HONORS | April 16: Sobey Artwork Basis and Nationwide Gallery of Canada modify annual Sobey Art Award to assist extra artists throughout international pandemic. Moderately than one 2020 winner and 5 finalists, 25 lengthy checklist artists are acknowledged, together with Luther Konadu, Moridja Kitenge Banza, and Manuel Mathieu, every receiving $25,000 CAD.
AWARDS & HONORS | April 18: New York photographer Dannielle Bowman wins 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize, together with $3,000 money award, her work printed in Aperture journal, and exhibition at Baxter St. on the Digicam Membership in New York.
APPOINTMENTS | April 21: Trevor Schoonmaker named director of Nasher Museum of Artwork at Duke College, the place he beforehand served as deputy director of curatorial affairs and curator of up to date artwork. Profession-long champion of artists of shade, Schoonmaker organized landmark “Barkley Hendricks: Birth of the Cool” exhibition.
AWARDS & HONORS | April 21: Affiliation of Artwork Museum Curators publicizes 2020 Curatorial Awards For Excellence. Catalog recognitions embody Carol S. Eliel for “Betye Saar: Call and Response” and Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon for “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle.” In Exhibitions class, honors embody Mark Godfrey, Zoé Whitley, and Sarah Loyer for presentation “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963–1983” at The Broad in Los Angeles.
LIVES | April 19: Pellom McDaniels III (1968-2020), curator of African American collections at Emory College’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Uncommon Ebook Library in Atlanta, dies April 19. He was 52. “The depth of our sorrow and grief at Pellom’s passing is matched solely by our boundless appreciation and admiration for the super items and contributions Pellom dropped at his life’s work to raise and rejoice African American historical past,” Rose Library director Jennifer Gunter King says.
NEWS | April 27: Prospect New Orleans announces one-year postponement of Prospect.5 as a consequence of COVID-19 pandemic. Citywide up to date artwork triennial scheduled to open fall 2020 delayed to Oct. 23, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022.
AUCTIONS | April 21: Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco launches its first benefit auction with Artsy. Artists, galleries, and collectors from throughout nation come collectively donating artworks to assist museum because it faces funding shortfall and attainable interruption of operations as a consequence of COVID-19 pandemic. (MoAD reports raising greater than $450,000.)
AWARDS & HONORS | April 27: Entrepreneur Nia Batts and artist McArthur Binion announce Modern Ancient Brown, offering Detroit- and Western Michigan-based residencies for artists from wherever. Alternatives provide “time and area to discover and inform their very own tales.”
April 28: Nicole R. Fleetwood‘s “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” is printed every now and then of groundbreaking MoMA PS1 exhibition.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT | Jean-Michel Basquiat property collaborates on Basquiat Barbie with Mattel in April; Dr. Marten’s x Jean-Michel Basquiat boots and footwear for males, girls, and kids in July; and Coach x Jean-Michel Basquiat assortment of handbags, equipment, t-shirts, and outerwear in September (with marketing campaign photographed by Micaiah Carter). | Video by Coach
MAY
LIVES | Might 2: Born and raised in Brooklyn, artist Louis Delasarte dies in Atlanta. He was 75. Delasarte’s vibrant work, drawings, and public murals had been unabashed celebrations of African American historical past and tradition.
EXHIBITIONS | Might 2: Lorna Simpson debuts new collages in on-line exhibition “Give Me Some Moments” at Hauser & Wirth, with many works made in isolation throughout COVID-19 quarantine.
NEWS > | Might 5: Monumental, Eighties frieze by Akili Ron Anderson depicting Black Final Supper found by building crew behind a wall at Studio Performing Conservancy (which is housed in former church) in Washington, D.C., will remain after makes an attempt to seek out new residence proved too costly and doubtlessly damaging. | Photograph by Evy Mages
BOOKS | Might 5: “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation” printed to accompany exhibition co-organized by curator Liz Munsell and Greg Tate at Museum of High-quality Arts Boston, that includes works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and his friends.
AWARDS & HONORS | Might 7: Artadia’s 2020 New York awards go to Alexandra Bell and Joiri Minaya, with every artist receiving $10,000 unrestricted grant.
Might 8: Wadsworth Jarrell, artist and co-founder of AFRICOBRA collective, publishes “AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art toward a School of Thought”—complete account of collective, its Chicago origins and inventive and political ideas.
AWARDS & HONORS | Might 12: Louis Consolation Tiffany Basis awards unrestricted biennial grants of $20,000 to twenty artists, together with Diedrick Brackens, Brendan Fernandes, Khalil Robert Irving, Deana Lawson, Tschabalala Self, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sable Elyse Smith, and Diamond Stingily. Seven-member jury, together with Anne Ellegood, Kerry James Marshall, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Storr, selects recipients.
NEWS | Might 14: Italianate crimson brick residence that was longtime residence of summary artist Alma Thomas(1891-1978) hits market in Washington, D.C., listed by Lengthy & Foster at greater than $2.2 million. (Sells for $2 million on Sept. 25, 2020.)
AWARDS & HONORS | Might 16: AFRICOBRA artists and Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alums Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Gerald Williams receive honorary doctorates from SAIC throughout 2020 on-line graduation workouts.
AUCTIONS | Might 16: Thom Pegg inaugurates Black Art Auction based mostly in Indianapolis, Ind., that includes 152 lots, with consumers taking part by telephone and on-line solely given COVID-19 pandemic. Longtime gallery proprietor (Tyler High-quality Artwork in St. Louis, Mo.), Pegg beforehand partnered with Treadway Gallery in Cincinnati, coordinating sale of African American artwork in its auctions. New enterprise is anticipated to supply three auctions yearly.
NEWS | Might 19: Unveiling of President Barack Obama‘s official White Home portrait delayed. Obama “has little interest in taking part within the post-presidency ceremony of passage as long as Trump is in workplace,” in response to NBC information. (Two completely different Presidential portraits are displayed at White Home and Nationwide Portrait Gallery.)
BOOKS | Might 19: New Museum in New York publishes fourth installment of Important Anthologies in Artwork and Tradition collection. “Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value” is co-edited by C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp, and contains essays, conversations, and artist portfolios from about 50 contributors, together with Isolde Brielmaier, Jeffrey Gibson, Byron Kim, Thomas J. Lax, Ralph Lemon, Tavia Nyong’o, Lorraine O’Grady, and Hortense J. Spillers.
LIVES > | Might 20: Pioneering artist Emma Amos (1937-2020), “dynamic painter and grasp colorist” who spent her profession in New York, dies in Bedford, N.H. She was 83.
NEWS | Might 21: United States Postal Service issues new Voices of the Harlem Renaissance Perpetually stamps that includes Alain Locke, Nella Larsen, Anne Spencer, and Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
AWARDS & HONORS | Might 22: Firelei Báez wins 2020 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in visible arts class, together with $75,000 prize.
ACQUISITION | Might 22: After representing property of Bob Thompson (1937-1966) for 23 years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery announces acquisition of artist’s estate from his household, together with artworks, sketchbooks, and mental property rights.
BLACK LIVES MATTER PLAZA | In Washington, D.C., on June 5, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser renames block of sixteenth Road, NW, adjoining to White Home, Black Lives Matter Plaza, full with massive yellow block letters spelling out “Black Lives Matter” on asphalt. Motion is meant to “honor” BLM demonstrators following escalated response by police and Nationwide Guard troops making an attempt to clear peaceable protestors from in entrance of White Home 4 days earlier. In weeks following, cities throughout nation sanction comparable public artwork tasks portray “Black Lives Matter” on their streets, from Sacramento, San Francisco, and Hollywood, Calif., to Dallas, Kansas Metropolis, Mo., Tulsa, Okla., and 5 boroughs of New York Metropolis. (On Oct. 20, DC Council votes to make naming of Black Lives Matter Plaza everlasting.) | Video by The Washington Publish
JUNE
NEWS > | June 4: As protestors take to streets and collect in parks and plazas calling for police prosecutions, police reform, and racial justice in cities throughout nation (and world) in response to Black individuals being killed by police and white vigilantes, Black girls photographers are amongst these documenting daily demonstrations. | Photograph: Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, N.Y. © Kay Hickman
LIVES | June 1: Collector Ronald Ollie dies at age 69. In 2017, Ollie and his spouse, Monique Ollie, made main present of African American summary artwork to Saint Louis Artwork Museum, on view in “The Form of Abstraction: Choices From the Ollie Assortment” at time of his demise.
NEWS | June 10: From Philadelphia to Bristol, monuments commemorating Confederacy and imperialism are being graffitied and toppled.
MUSEUMS | June 9: New York Instances report reveals Museum of Up to date Artwork Cleveland canceled in March long-planned exhibition that includes drawings of victims of police brutality with out consulting artist, Shaun Leonardo. Museum expresses concern about response from local people the place Tamir Rice, 12, was killed by Cleveland police in 2014. Leonardo accuses museum of censorship. (See Extra beneath: Aug. 26)
MUSEUMS | June 10: Curators from Smithsonian museums are collecting art and signs from police brutality protestors and advocates of Black Lives Issues in areas adjoining to White Home.
NEWS | June 18: Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation issues statement about Accomplice monuments and mentioned their “removing could also be crucial to attain better good of making certain racial justice and equality.”
NEWS | June 19: Historic Preservationist Maya Thomas initiates $100,000 campaign to buy Philadelphia residence of artist and printmaker Dox Thrash (1893-1965).
PUBLIC ART | June 22: Hackney Council in London announces selection of Thomas J. Worth and Veronica Ryan to create public artworks that commemorate and honor Windrush era in Hackney. Sculptures shall be first public artworks in UK devoted to Black Caribbeans who arrived in Nice Britain between about 1948 and 1971.
June 22: Howard College is suing for return of “Centralia Madonna” by Charles White. Drawing disappeared from its assortment in Seventies, then confirmed up at Sotheby’s public sale home in Might when aged African American couple from South Carolina tried to consign work on the market. | Picture Supply: Court docket Paperwork
MUSEUMS | June 26: For 48 hours, from Friday, June 26 at 2 p.m. EDT, to Sunday, June 28 at 2 p.m. EDT, worldwide consortium of museums and personal collections simultaneously live stream Arthur Jafa‘s “Love is the Message.”
NEWS | June 29: Criticized for lack of range, Magnum picture company adds five new photographers to roster. Nominees embody Hannah Worth of Philadelphia, Colby Deal of Houston, and Khalik Allah of New York. Movement additionally handed elevating South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa to affiliate.
AUCTIONS | June 29: At Sotheby’s Up to date Artwork Night Public sale, “Untitled (Head)” (1982) by Jean-Michel Basquiat sells for almost $15.2 million, setting new artist file for work on paper.
ACQUISITION | June 30: Getty Analysis Institute and USC Faculty of Structure jointly acquire archive of legendary architect Paul R. Williams (1894-1980), an alum of USC, together with about 35,000 plans, 10,000 unique drawings, blueprints, hand-colored renderings, pictures, correspondence, and different gadgets.
NEWS | June 30: Curator Dexter Wimberly introduces Hayama Artist Residency, new worldwide artist-in-residence program in Japan designed to immerse visible artists in Japanese tradition and supply alternative to take part in group exhibition at native gallery.
TRIBUTE MURALS | After police homicide Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. (March 13) and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. (Might 25), murals paying tribute to their lives and legacies, and serving as makeshift memorials, sprout up of their hometowns and all through nation, from California to Wisconsin, and New York. In Annapolis, Md., paying tribute to Taylor, volunteers and instructing artists paint 7,000-square-foot mural throughout two basketball courts in Chambers Park. July 5 mission is organized by Future Historical past Now, youth group centered on mural tasks; Banneker-Douglass Museum; and Maryland Fee on African American Historical past and Tradition. | Photograph by Julio Cortez/AP
MAGAZINES | Worldwide protests spurred by police murders and nationwide racial reckoning coincide with, and sure immediate, elevated illustration of Black artists and photographers amongst mainstream journal commissions. Racial justice covers, together with Titus Kaphar’s homage to Black mothers for Time (June 15); Kadir Nelson’s pictures of George Floyd for The New Yorker (June 22) and protestors for Rolling Stone (July); illustration of Breonna Taylor by Alexis Franklin for O: The Oprah Journal (September); and portrait of Taylor by Amy Sherald for particular concern of Vainness Truthful guest-edited by journalist and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (September), specifically, resonate. British Vogue showcases Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford and Adwoa Aboah, mannequin and psychological well being advocate, on September cowl, with many extra activists featured on gatefold, most captured by Black photographers.
JULY
APPOINTMENT | July 1: Artwork Historian Kellie Jones named inaugural Hans Haufman Professor of Trendy Artwork at Columbia College.
July 2: After June announcement that as a consequence of COVID-19 pandemic, presenting Turner Prize exhibition wasn’t possible, reasonably than decide one prize winner, jury selects 10 artists receiving £10,000 bursaries (financial awards), together with, clockwise from prime left, Alberta Whittle, Ima-Abasi Okon, Liz Johnson Artur, and Shawanda Corbett. | Images by way of The Scotsman, by Artor Jesus Inkerö, Courtesy the artist (Artur), Courtesy the artist (Corbett)
AWARDS & HONORS | July 2: United States Artists recognizes gallerist and activist Linda Goode Bryant with 2020 Berresford Prize, together with $25,000.
ACQUISITIONS > | July 6: Nationwide Portrait Gallery in London unveils commissioned portrait of famend British writer and humanities author Zadie Smith by artist Toyin Ojih Odutola.
FILMS | July 7: Cintia Cabib‘s documentary “Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell,” about Washington,D.C., artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown (1894-1981) and niece Lilian Thomas Burwell, debuts on PBS.
NEWS | July 7: MacDowell Colony, the New Hampshire artist residency program, changes name to easily MacDowell, eradicating “Colony” by unanimous vote of board of administrators after employees petitions raised considerations concerning the “oppressive overtones” of terminology.
PUBLIC ART | July 7: Public artwork set up on facade of 236 Westbourne Grove in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood features work of Khadija Saye (1992-2017), promising younger artist who died in Grenfell Tower hearth in 2017.
MUSEUMS | July 13: To doc COVID-19 pandemic, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Group Museum in Washington, D.C., asks public to share experiences for brand spanking new mission—#MomentsOfResilience archive.
AWARDS & HONORS | July 13: Koyo Kouoh, director of Zeitz Museum of Up to date Artwork Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape City, South Africa, is one in every of 4 recipients of prestigious Prix Meret Oppenheim 2020, from Swiss Federal Workplace of Tradition. Honor contains 40,000 Swiss Francs (about US $42,341). Cameroon-born Kouoh grew up in Switzerland. Watch Video
EXHIBITIONS | July 14: In wake of pandemic, Oscar Murillo quarantines in small manufacturing facility city of La Paila, Colombia, the place he was born. Whereas at residence, he collaborates with native church to offer meals and necessities for group. Church additionally serves as exhibition area. David Zwirner presents “from placards to paintings,” present of recent large-scale summary work by Murillo. “I consider these new work as a manifestation of the place I discover myself now. They symbolize the anxiousness of the present disaster,” Murillo says.
July 14: Open Society Foundations announces 10 recipients of 2020 Soros Arts Fellowship, together with Deborah Anzinger, Rachèle Magloire, Meleko Mokgosi, Tiago Sant’Ana, and Olu Oguibe, every receiving $80,000 to assist main mission. | Clockwise, from prime left, Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Abdullah Alkafri, Deborah Anzinger, Nicholas Galanin, Tiago Sant’Ana, Olu Oguibe, Meleko Mokgosi, Paloma McGregor, Rachèle Magloire
PUBLIC ART | July 15: Performing in assist of Black Lives Matter motion, UK demonstrators toppled monument to slave dealer Edward Colston. Greater than month later artist Eric Quinn replaces it with statue of Jen Reid, one of protestors. Marvin Rees, mayor of Bristol says set up not licensed, with out indicating whether or not it might keep. Quinn, who’s white, tells Guardian: “Hope flows by way of this statue.” Artist Thomas J. Worth, who’s Black, has downside with rogue sculpture, writing in The Art Newspaper it “was one more instance of white privilege in motion.” Day later, Bristol Council has statue removed. Watch Video
MUSEUMS | July 15: Museum of African American Historical past in Boston establishes new social justice program with $1 million grant from Liberty Mutual Basis.
APPOINTMENTS | July 16: Seba Raquel Suber is appointed director of finance and strategic sources at Up to date Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)
LIVES | July 17: Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), civil rights icon and lifelong freedom fighter representing Atlanta in Congress, dies. He was 80. An avid collector of African American artwork, he advocated for establishing Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of African American Historical past and Tradition.
PUBLIC ART | July 28: Yale College commissions Seattle-based artist Barbara Earl Thomas to design new windows for eating corridor at Grace Hopper Faculty, residential faculty beforehand named after slavery advocate John C. Calhoun and was renamed in 2017 for Hopper, pioneering laptop scientist and mathematician who earned her Ph.D. from Yale in 1934.
NEWS | July 28: Multi-ethnic contingent of artists and cultural leaders related to organizations throughout number of disciplines requires Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice. Expansive group contains Amy Andrieux, Jeff Chang, Emory Douglas, and Carrie Mae Weems. Read More
July 31: “Say It Loud,” on-line promoting exhibition organized by curator Destinee Ross-Sutton is hosted by Christie’s public sale home, that includes 22 worldwide artists of African descent, with 100% of proceeds going to artists. | | Set up view of YOYO LANDER, “Have Tears,” 2020 (lower water shade paper on paper). © Yoyo Lander, Courtesy the artist and Destinee Ross-Sutton & Associates
MAGAZINES | July/August: Dario Calmese pictures history-making cover of Vainness Truthful. “To the very best of our data, it’s the first Vainness Truthful cowl made by a Black photographer,” VF Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones says. Calmese’s portrait of Viola Davis, referencing “The Scourged Back” (1863), picture of enslaved Black man’s again ravaged by whipping scars, prompts reward and a few criticism. Read More
AMOAKO BOAFO | Artist to observe, Ghanaian-born, Vienna-based painter Amoako Boafo collaborates with inventive director Kim Jones on Dior Males’s Spring/Summer season 2021 assortment in July. Boafo’s work covers summer edition of Bomb journal and “I Stand By Me,” his first exhibition with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in Chicago opens Sept. 10. On Feb. 13, sale of “The Lemon Bathing Suit” (2019) at Phillips marks Boafo’s main public sale debut, with astronomic end result ($881,550) greater than 13 instances the excessive estimate. All through 12 months, his work are provided at public sale by consumers desirous to capitalize on his early recognition. Dec. 2 end result at Christie’s (“Baba Diop,” 2019) units new artist file at public sale, promoting for about $1.1 million. | Video by Christian Dior
AUGUST
AWARDS & HONORS | Aug. 4: Shortlist announced for Future Era Artwork Prize offered by Victor Pinchuk Basis in Ukraine. Slate of 21 worldwide artists contains Wendimagegn Belete (Ethiopia), Minia Biabiany (Guadeloupe), Rindon Johnson (United States), Bronwyn Katz (South Africa), Paul Maheke (France), and Frida Orupabo (Norway). Introduced by the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine, prize is price $100,000. Exhibition scheduled October 2021, with winner introduced December 2021.
Aug. 7: Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington, D.C., publicizes acquisition of 1971 assemblage work by John Outterbridge, first work by artist to enter assortment. | JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE, “Plus Tax: Buying Bag Society, Rag Man Collection,” 1971 (combined media, general: 50.8 x 34.3 x 19.1 cm / 20 x 13 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches).
AWARDS & HONORS | Aug. 7: Wangkajunga–Walmajarri artist Ngarralja Tommy Might wins Nationwide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artwork award (Natsiaa). “I’ve been attempting all my life [to win],” he says about $50,000 prize.
APPOINTMENTS | Aug. 10: Deborah Smith named director of Arts Council Assortment in London. Owned by Arts Council of England, the gathering contains greater than 8,000 works by greater than 2,000 artists and is “most generally circulated nationwide mortgage assortment of recent and up to date British artwork.”
AWARDS & HONORS | Aug. 10: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Mass., publicizes artist Sonya Clark is 2020 recipient of annual Rappaport Prize, together with $35,000 and public lecture in early 2021.
Aug. 11: Edited by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), “Samuel Fosso: Autoportrait,” first complete monograph of West African photographer, is printed. Since mid-Seventies, Samuel Fosso has been acknowledged for his conceptual self portraits.
NEWS | Aug. 12: Artwork Sellers Affiliation of America (ADAA) welcomes six new members, together with Black-owned Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in Chicago.
REPRESENTATION | Aug. 12: Chicago artist Hebru Brantley joins WME (William Morris Endeavor). He was beforehand with UTA (United Expertise Company).
APPOINTMENTS | Aug. 13: Artistic Capital provides six new members to board of administrators, together with artist Edgar Arceneaux and Reginald M. Browne, a Philadelphia-based capital markets govt, and likewise introduces new Nationwide Advisory Council co-chaired by artist Fred Wilson.
NEWS | Aug. 13: Mei-Lee Ney, chair of Board of Trustees at Otis Faculty of Artwork and Design contributes $1 million to assist anti-racism initiatives, scholarships for Black college students, and hiring range govt at Los Angeles establishment.
APPOINTMENTS | Aug. 13: 5 trustees-at-large appointed to board of Affiliation of Artwork Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Basis, together with Myrtis Bedolla of Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore and Wendy Chang, director of Rennie Assortment in Vancouver, which has vital holdings by essential African American artists, together with David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, and Lorna Simpson.
APPOINTMENTS | Aug. 20: Museum of Trendy Artwork in New York names James Grooms basic counsel and secretary to board of trustees.
AWARDS & HONORS | Aug. 24: Lava Thomas, whose multidisciplinary practices explores problems with race, gender, illustration and memorialization, receives a 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award.
NEWS > | Aug. 25: Philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton, a co-founder of Artwork + Apply, presents $5 million gift to California Institute of the Arts to create Charles Gaines College Chair and “present much-needed assist to Black and underrepresented school.” Charles Gaines, extremely regarded Los Angeles-based artist and celebrated educator for greater than 30 years at CalArts, for whom chair is called, shall be first to carry place. | Photograph: Charles-Gaines. ©-Fredrik-Nilsen, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
EXHIBITIONS | Aug. 25: Inside someday of saying exhibition (“Collective Actions: Artist Interventions In a Time of Change”) that includes artworks acquired from Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 profit auctions and gross sales, reminiscent of See in Black organized by collective of Black photographers, Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York cancels show after being accused of exploiting artists, given works had been bought at discounted costs with out permission of artists.
AWARDS & HONORS | Aug. 25: At Frieze London, Glasgow-based Alberta Whittle wins Frieze Artist Award 2020.
NEWS | Aug. 26: Painter Frank Bowling and Hales Gallery in London, are in multi-million dollar legal dispute over his inventive legacy and gross sales and accounting of his work.
MUSEUMS | Aug. 26: Massachusetts Museum of Up to date Artwork (Mass MoCA) opens “Shaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space” presenting drawings by Shaun Leonardo of police violence towards Black and Latino males and boys. After collection was proven with out incident on the Maryland Institute Faculty of Artwork in Baltimore, exhibition was canceled on the Museum of Up to date Artwork Cleveland. Present heads to the Bronx Museum of the Arts subsequent.
SIMONE LEIGH | After starting 2020 with new gallery illustration at Hauser & Wirth, Simone Leigh is chosen Oct. 14 to represent the United States at 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 with solo exhibition in American Pavilion. Brooklyn-based sculptor centered on Black feminine subjectivity is first Black girl chosen and third Black artist in row to symbolize United States at worldwide exhibition (following Mark Bradford and Martin Puryear). | Simone Leigh, Stratton Sculpture Studios, 2020. © Simone Leigh, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph by Shaniqwa Jarvis
SEPTEMBER
September 2020: Artforum considers America’s carceral state. Artist Stanley Whitney‘s No Jail Life collection appears on cover, inside features conversation between Nicole R. Fleetwood (curator of “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” at MoMA PS1) and novelist Rachel Kushner about mass incarceration and artwork made by people who find themselves imprisoned.
MUSEUMS | September: A strong group of Black museum trustees meets for first time this month, forming Black Trustee Alliance for Artwork Museums, with objective to diversify museum boards and drive significant change all through establishments.
APPOINTMENTS | Sept. 1: Underneath management of Steven Nelson, Nationwide Gallery of Artwork’s Middle for Superior Examine within the Visible Arts in Washington, D.C., announces 2020-2021 academic-year appointments, together with Huey Copeland, Mel Harper, and Melanee C. Harvey.
NEWS | Sept. 1: Google Doodle celebrates Jackie Ormes (1911-1985), “first and solely Black feminine newspaper cartoonist of her time in america.” Liz Montague illustrates doodle. She is first Black feminine cartoonist printed in The New Yorker.
PUBLIC ART | Sept. 1: Pittsburgh sculptor Thaddeus Mosley participates in Frieze Sculpture, with trio of works on view at Rockefeller Middle in New York. Read More
AWARDS & HONORS | Sept. 1: Curator Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) among recipients of posthumous 2020 Particular Golden Lions awarded by Venice Biennale.
AWARDS & HONORS | Sept. 9: Destinie Adelakun receives 2020 Canadian Women Artists’ Award from New York Basis for the Arts.
AWARDS & HONORS > | Sept. 10: Studio Museum in Harlem names 2020-2021 Artists-in-Residence: Widline Cadet, Genesis Jerez, Texas Isaiah, and Jacolby Satterwhite. | Clockwise, from left, Widline Cadet (element) – Photograph By Widline Cadet; Genesis Jerez – Photograph by Jason Mandella; Texas Isaiah – Photograph by the artist; Jacolby Satterwhite (element) – Photograph by Thomas McCarty for SSENSE (2020)
AWARDS & HONORS | Sept. 10: Wilmington, Del.-based painter Peter Williams, visible storyteller and cultural critic with penchant for daring shade, receives Artists’ Legacy Basis 2020 Artist Award, together with $25,000 prize. Read More
SYMPOSIUMS | Sept. 17: Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington, D.C., hosts major virtual tribute to artist and scholar David C. Driskell (1931-2020). John Wilmerding Symposium on American Artwork is offered in partnership with David C. Driskell Middle for the Examine of the Visible Arts and Tradition of African Individuals and the African Diaspora at College of Maryland, Faculty Park, and Skowhegan Faculty of Portray and Sculpture.
TELEVISION | Sept. 18: Season 10 of Artwork 21’s Artwork within the Twenty-First Century debuts on PBS and Art21.org, that includes British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah in London.
NEWS | Sept. 21: To deliver consideration to colonial-era cultural theft, Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza is taking African art from French museums and videotaping tried seizures.
AWARDS & HONORS | Sept. 22: Brooklyn-based Jon Henry wins 2020 Arnold Newman Prize For New Instructions in Photographic Portraiture, an annual $20,000 award, from Maine Media Workshops + Faculty in Rockport, Maine.
MAGAZINES | Sept. 22: Time 100 checklist of most influential individuals of 2020 includes legendary Harlem designer Dapper Dan, filmmaker and activist Tourmaline, summary artist Julie Mehretu whose tribute is written by architect David Adjaye, and Black Lives Matter Founders Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, an artist and co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, a collective artwork area and gallery.
Sept. 24: Vincent Namatjira wins 2020 Archibald Prize with “Stand Robust for Who You Are,” a self-portrait with Adam Goodes, champion Aboriginal Australian Guidelines footballer who left sport as a consequence of racism. Namatjira is first Aboriginal artist to win open competitors judged by trustees of Artwork Gallery of New South Wales and regarded Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize. “…it’s about time…,” Namatjira says. | Photograph: Mim Stirling/AGNSW
PUBLIC ART | Sept. 24: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, central department of DC Public Library system reopens (with restricted providers) after $211 million, three-year renovation. New library options African American artwork: restored King mural by late New Jersey artist Don Miller; works by native artist Nekisha Durrett; ceiling set up by Xenobia Bailey; and works on paper by summary artist Alma Thomas on everlasting show in teen room named for her. (Plus, sculptural bench by Martin Puryear to be put in early 2021.)
AWARDS & HONORS | Sept. 24: Drawing Middle in New York holds virtual gala with artist Henry Taylor and author Zadie Smith, amongst honorees. Collector AC Hudgins tells great story about energy of Taylor’s artwork; Los Angeles artist provides tour of his residence workspace; Kwame Anthony Appiah introduces Smith and novelist explains why she started writing about artists. Watch Video
MUSEUMS | Sept. 25: Initially anticipated to open June 2020 at Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington, D.C., “Philip Guston Now” touring retrospective pushed back to 2024 by 4 host museums involved about two dozen works displaying cartoonish pictures of white-hooded Ku Klux Klansmen. Choice raises ire and prompts almost 100 artists and curators to issue open letter by way of The Brooklyn Rail (with 2,000+ becoming a member of after publication), calling for reinstatement of exhibition. Museums revisit delay, announce show will debut in 2022. Already printed, exhibition catalog options contributions from artists Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock.
EXHIBITIONS > | Sept. 29: “Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition” opens Gagosian gallery’s London area on Brittania Road. Exhibition is New York-based Meleko Mokgosi‘s first present in UK and Europe. | MELEKO MOKGOSI, Element of “Bread, Butter, and Energy,” 2018 (in 21 elements). © Meleko Mokgosi
APPOINTMENTS | Sept. 29: Kevin Younger named director of Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of African American Historical past and Tradition (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. Younger has been director of Schomburg Middle for Analysis in Black Tradition in New York since 2016. He begins at NMAAHC Jan. 11, 2021.
AUCTION | Sept. 29: AmRef Well being Africa’s Artwork Ball profit public sale goes live on Artsy by way of Oct. 13. Works by greater than 30 African artist provided with gross sales supporting the group’s COVID-19 packages in eight African nations. Working from inside, AmRef Well being Africa’s overarching objective is to remodel healthcare all through Africa by coaching native healthcare staff and offering healthcare providers “to satisfy the continent’s dynamic and significant” healthcare wants.
AWARDS & HONORS | Sept. 30: David Adjaye recieves 2021 Royal Gold Medal, from Royal Institute of British Architects recognizing lifetime of labor, honor is personally authorised by Queen Elizabeth.
FILM | Sept. 30: “Myth of a Colorblind France,” a documentary by Alan Govenar about Black American artists, includes rare footage of Henry O. Tanner in Nineteen Thirties Paris.
NEWS | Sept. 30: After 15 years, The Laundromat Challenge, self described “Black-rooted and POC-centered” arts group headquartered in Harlem (with a program area in The South Bronx) announces move to Mattress-Stuy, Brooklyn.
DEANA LAWSON | On Oct. 23, Deana Lawson wins 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, together with $100,000 award and solo exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2021. Lawson is first photographer to win biennial prize. Her work “examines physique’s potential to channel private and social histories.” Lawson joined David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles June 29, and some days after profitable Hugo Boss Prize is honored by Worldwide Middle of Pictures at annual Spotlights profit honoring girls in visible arts working in images and movie (Oct. 27). Watch Video | Photograph Courtesy Guggenheim Museum
OCTOBER
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 1: Black Lunch Desk (BLT) expands board of administrators, including 4 new members: Nicole Caruth; Lisa Dent, Hasan Elahi, and Sarah Workneh. Based by artists Heather Hart and Jina Valentine, BLT is oral historical past archiving mission with packages together with Wikipedia edit-a-thons and interdisciplinary and inter-generational lunch desk discussions amongst artists, cultural producers, and group at-large.
NEWS | Oct. 1: To assist arts organizations dealing with important finances shortfalls in wake of COVID-19 pandemic, Hauser & Wirth Gallery organizes Artists for New York with dozens of artists together with Derrick Adams, Michael Armitage, Firelei Báez, Sanford Biggers, Ebony G. Patterson, Adam Pendleton, and Lorna Simpson donating works on the market to profit 14 organizations, together with the Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, Excessive Line Artwork, MoMA PS1, and Public Artwork Fund, in addition to two nonprofit charitable companions The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York Metropolis and Basis for Up to date Arts (FCA).
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 1: Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung receives Order of Merit of Berlin, the city-state’s highest honor.
NEWS | Oct. 2: Greater than 100 artists rally to raise funds for Joe Biden-Kamala Harris U.S. Presidential marketing campaign. Artists for Biden options works by Sam Gilliam, Tavares Strachan, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kehinde Wiley, amongst many others on the market (early entry Oct. 1) on David Zwirner’s Platform website.
ACQUISITION | Oct. 5: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork in Bentonville, Ark., announces acquisition of “Mazda” (1970), an early drape portray by Washington, D.C.-based summary artist Sam Gilliam.
Oct. 6: Guyana-born, British painter Frank Bowling joins Hauser & Wirth. Describing his work, gallery says Bowling “has relentlessly pursued a observe which boldly expands the probabilities and properties of paint. Bold in scale and scope, his dynamic engagement with the materiality of his chosen medium, and its evolution within the broad sweep of artwork historical past, has resulted in work of unparalleled originality and energy.”
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 6: MacArthur Basis announces 2020 MacArthur Fellows. Group of 21 “exceptionally artistic people” receiving $625,000 stipends contains cultural theorist Fred Moten and Ralph Lemon, choreographer and multidisciplinary visible artist.
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 6: British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE receives Robson Orr TenTen Award 2020 from Authorities Artwork Assortment. Commissioned print by Shonibare shall be displayed in UK’s diplomatic buildings world wide. Watch Video
APPOINTMENTS > | Oct. 7: Cummer Museum of Artwork & Gardens appoints Andrea Barnwell Brownlee director and CEO. Brownlee joins Jacksonville, Fla., museum after twenty years as director of Spelman Faculty Museum of High-quality Artwork in Atlanta.
NEWS | Oct. 8: The Guggenheim Museum in New York announces departure of Nancy Spector, museum’s inventive director and chief curator, in wake of unbiased investigation into remedy of Chaédria LaBouvier, first solo Black curator of an exhibition at Guggenheim, who organized “Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story” in 2019
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 8: Filmmaker, photographer, and author dana washington-queen receives 2020 Ellsworth Kelley Award for exhibition she is presenting at Institute for Up to date Artwork at Virginia Commonwealth College in Richmond.
ART FAIRS | Oct. 8: Creative Director Eva Langret presides over her first edition of Frieze London (Oct. 8-11), a vastly modified and principally on-line occasion as a consequence of COVID-19 pandemic.
ART FAIRS | Oct. 8: Staged at Somerset Home, 1-54 Up to date African Artwork Truthful is only international art fair to open in London throughout fall season as others migrate on-line, given international coronavirus pandemic. Find More
NEWS | Oct. 9: British painter Frank Bowling receives knighthood from Queen Elizabeth as a part of her birthday honors checklist, introduced twice a 12 months. Bowling beforehand was designated an officer of Order of the British Empire by the queen of England.
NEWS | Oct. 12: “Incidents within the Historical past of Catonsville,” 1942 mural depicting slavery at Baltimore-area U.S. Publish Workplace is covered after state and federal elected officers name for its removing.
APPOINTMENT | Oct. 13: College of California’s Berkeley Artwork Museum and Pacific Movie Archive (BAMPFA) announces Elaine Yau as inaugural affiliate curator of Eli Leon Assortment of African American Quilts.
NEWS | Oct. 13: U.S. Postal Service issues new Kwanzaa stamp that includes paintings by Andrea Pippins.
Oct. 15: Launched earlier in 12 months, Carrie Mae Weems brings “RESIST COVID TAKE 6!” public artwork marketing campaign shedding gentle on racial disparities associated to pandemic, to Lincoln Center in New York. | Set up view of CARRIE MAE WEEMS, Resist COVID-19 Take 6!, Lincoln Middle, New York, N.Y. Photograph © James Wang
NEWS | Oct. 15: Artwork collector Raymond J. McGuire announces run for mayor of New York Metropolis in 2021. McGuire, who stepped down as vice chair of Citigroup to launch marketing campaign, is board chair of Studio Museum in Harlem and likewise sits on board of trustees at Whitney Museum of American Artwork.
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 16: Stuart Clarke elected board chair at Maryland Institute Faculty of Artwork in Baltimore.
EXHIBITIONS | Oct. 16: “Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water” opens at The Shed in New York Metropolis, exhibition “concerning the brutality of racism and the therapeutic energy of artwork” options work and Howardena Pindell‘s first video in 25 years.
ACQUISITIONS | Oct. 16: Collectors Pamela Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida acquire painting of designer Aurora James by Jordan Casteel and plan long-term mortgage to San Francisco Museum of Trendy Artwork. Portrait was featured on cowl of September 2020 fall trend concern of American Vogue.
AWARDS & HONORS > | Oct. 19: Kapwani Kiwanga wins 2020 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s prime artwork prize. Canadian-born, Paris-based Kiwanga is first Black artist chosen for award, which incorporates €35,000 (about $41,000).
MAGAZINES | Oct. 19: Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey is amongst The Greats. T Journal at The New York Instances names its annual group of remarkable cultural figures, “5 skills who in mastering their crafts, have modified their fields — and the tradition at massive,” together with Bey, who’s photographed by LaToya Ruby Frazier for profile.
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 20: Artists now lead board of trustees of SculptureCenter in Lengthy Island Metropolis, N.Y. With Carol Bove serving as chair, Sanford Biggers rises to president and Leslie Hewitt is newly elected to board, whose members additionally embody Fred Wilson.
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 21: Recipients of Joan Mitchell Basis’s 2020 Painters & Sculptors Grants include Natalie Bell, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Khalil Robert Irving, Caroline Kent, Demetrius Oliver, Tomashi Jackson, Arvie Smith, Jordan Weber, and Didier William.
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 21: Savannah Faculty of Artwork & Design names Joël Díaz director of Walter O. Evans Middle for African American Research, which is housed throughout the SCAD Museum of Artwork.
Oct. 21: Considered one of 5 panels lacking from Jacob Lawrence‘s Wrestle collection is found, revealed to be hanging in residence on New York’s Higher West Aspect. Homeowners purchased portray at 1960 charity public sale. Dated 1956, Panel 16 depicts rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts and is now on view at Metropolitan Museum of Artwork. Organized by Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” runs by way of Nov. 1, earlier than touring to Birmingham Museum of Artwork in Alabama. | JACOB LAWRENCE, “Wrestle Collection” (Panel 16), 1956 (tempura on hardboard). The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Basis, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
SYMPOSIUMS | Oct. 23: Baltimore bead artist Joyce J. Scott gives keynote address at 2020 Oral Historical past Affiliation annual convention by way of Zoom.
FILM | Oct. 23: Underway for decade, first full-length documentary about Beauford Delaney delayed due to obstacles to filming in wake of COVID-19 pandemic.
EXHIBITIONS | Oct. 23: “John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance” opens at Brooklyn Museum. John Edmonds received inaugural UOVO Prize, which acknowledges an rising Brooklyn artist. Exhibition is a part of prize and photographer’s first solo museum present.
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 26: Nigel Freeman, founding director of African-American High-quality Artwork Division at Swann Public sale Galleries is appointed vice president, will proceed to function head of African American artwork and likewise assist general progress and technique of family-owned New York public sale home.
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 27: Evans Richardson IV, chief of employees at Studio Museum in Harlem announced as next chair of Accreditation Fee of American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Time period begins Jan. 1, 2021.
NEWS | Oct. 28: Souls Grown Deep Basis in Atlanta announces Resale Royalty Award Program offering Southern African American artists represented in its assortment with 5 p.c royalty from previous and future gross sales to museums, galleries, and thru auctions, with annual cap of $85,000 per artist.
FASHION | Oct. 28: British Vogue Council’s Institute of Optimistic Vogue announces The Lacking Thread, a partnership with Black Oriented Legacy Growth Company celebrating British Black trend and tradition from 1975 to current by way of packages, occasions, and main exhibition in summer season 2022.
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 29: UK- based mostly Ghanaian artist Atta Kwami wins 2021 Maria Lassnig Prize. Biennial award for mid-career artists co-presented by Maria Lassnig Basis and Serpentine Galleries in London, contains €50,000 prize (about $58,300), monographic publication, and public artwork fee.
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 29: Franklin Sirmans joins board of Andy Warhol Basis for the Visible Arts. Sirmans is director of Pérez Artwork Museum Miami (PAMM).
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 29: In Oregon, Portland Artwork Museum announces new board members, together with Portland-born artist Carrie Mae Weems and Brue McHayle of Nike.
APPOINTMENTS | Oct. 29: Ghana appoints 13-member committee to advise authorities on “radical” new plan for museums, monuments, and cultural heritage websites, together with researching Ghanaian objects held in collections of worldwide establishments.
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 30: Inaugural Subsequent Step Award, offered by Aperture and Baxter St and Digicam Membership of New York, is awarded to Fayetteville, Ark.-based photographer Zora J Murff.
AWARDS & HONORS | Oct. 30: American Alliance of Museums announces winners of 2020 Museum Publications Design Competitors. MCA Chicago’s “Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech” catalog is acknowledged; “Derrick Adams: Patrick Kelly, The Journey” exhibition offered by SCAD FASH Museum of Vogue + Movie in Atlanta is honored in Academic Assets class; and Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of African Artwork in Washington D.C., receives accolades for 2019 African Art Awards program.
EXHIBITION | Oct. 30: Lowery Sims and Leslie King-Hammond visitor curate “Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change” at Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American Historical past & Tradition in Baltimore. Read More
CAULEEN SMITH | Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith wins annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize from Studio Museum in Harlem, together with $50,000. Smith’s imaginative observe is knowledgeable by poetry, science fiction, and Afrofuturism. “Cauleen Smith: Mutualities,” her first solo exhibition in New York, is at present on view at Whitney Museum of American Artwork. | Photograph by Dustin Aksland
NOVEMBER
MAGAZINES | November 2020: Particular Vanity Fair on Art supplemental concern options artists Nina Chanel Abney, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Hank Willis Thomas on cowl.
BOOKS > | Nov. 3: “Going There: Black Visual Satire” by Richard Powell is printed, increasing on Duke College artwork historian’s 2016 presentation at Richard D. Cohen Lectures on African & African American Artwork at Harvard College.
PUBLIC ART | Nov. 3: In lead as much as U.S. presidential election, quite a few artists and artwork establishments are actively engaged. Political season conjures up public artwork tasks, data campaigns, and exhibitions organized round voting rights, American democracy, and up to date sociopolitical points reminiscent of police brutality, the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 Census, mass incarceration, and immigration.
EXHIBITIONS | Nov. 5: Tate Trendy in London presents first major UK survey of South African photographer and visible activist Zanele Muholi.
EXHIBITIONS | Nov. 6: “Sam Gilliam: Existed Existing” opens at Tempo Gallery. Presentation is Sam Gilliam‘s first solo present at first gallery to symbolize celebrated Washington, D.C.-based artist in New York.
APPOINTMENT | Nov. 6: Ralph Remington appointed director of Cultural Affairs for San Francisco Arts Fee (SFAC) by Mayor London Breed. He formally begins in January.
NEWS | Nov. 7: New historic marker in Nashville, Tenn., pays tribute to life and work of artist William Edmondson (1874-1951).
NEWS | Nov. 7: Biden-Harris marketing campaign releases America the Beautiful video impressed by Lorraine O’Grady‘s “Artwork Is…” (2009) efficiency work.
LIVES | Nov. 8: Artist and activist Cliff Joseph (1922-2020), co-founder of Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) who advocated for Black illustration in New York Metropolis museums dies in Chicago. He was 98.
ACQUISITION | Nov. 10: Version of Simone Leigh‘s monumental “Brick Home” sculpture (commissioned for inaugural Excessive Line Plinth) is acquired and put in on campus of College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
BOOKS | Nov. 10: “Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph” is printed. A lot-anticipated quantity paperwork 4 many years of New York photographer Ming Smith‘s observe.
EXHIBITIONS > | Nov. 11: Based mostly on exhibition conceived by late artist Ernie Barnes (1938-2009), UTA Artist House in Beverly Hills presents “Ernie Barnes: Liberating Humanity Within” that includes 29 work, primarily from artist’s property, greater than half on the market. Read More | ERNIE BARNES, “An Interior Power,” 2007 (acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches). © Ernie Barnes Household Belief, Photograph by Jeff McLane
MAGAZINES | Nov. 11: Staff behind BlackStar Movie Pageant launches Seen, new journal centered on movie and visible tradition, with Radha Clean, director of “The 40-12 months-Previous Model” on cowl of inaugural fall 2020 concern. Inside protection contains Garrett Bradley, Blitz Bazawule, and Amy Sherald.
ARCHIVES | Nov. 11: Metropolis Faculty of New York Libraries completes digitization of CCNY Hatch-Billops Oral Historical past Assortment—greater than 320 hours of interviews, lectures, and panel discussions courting from 1970-74.
APPOINTMENTS | Nov. 11: The Gordon Parks Basis in Pleasantville, N.Y., hires Michal Raz-Russo to function program director with broad portfolio specializing in new artist grants, fellowships, exhibitions, and publications and increasing social justice initiatives. Raz-Russo was beforehand images curator at Artwork Institute of Chicago.
LIVES | Nov. 12: Assemblage artist John Outterbridge (1933-2020), who served as director of Watts Towers Arts Middle for almost twenty years (1975-1992), dies in Los Angeles. He was 87.
Nov. 13: Lorraine O’Grady‘s “Writing in Space, 1973–2019” is printed gathering almost half a century of writing by O’Grady, together with statements, notes on performances and conceptual images, scripts, interviews, artwork criticism, and theoretical essays.
FILM | Nov. 15: “Small Axe” collection of 5 movies from Academy award-winning British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen debuts on Amazon Prime and BBC. Set between late-Nineteen Sixties to mid-Eighties, mission explores experiences of London’s West African group “whose lives have been formed by their very own pressure of will regardless of rampant racism and discrimination.”
MAGAZINES | Nov. 15: Artist Titus Kaphar and Ford Basis President Darren Walker are named Innovators 2020 by the Wall Road Journal. Read More
AWARDS & HONORS | Nov. 16: Architect David Adjaye receives 2020 Isamu Noguchi Award from Noguchi Museum in Lengthy Island Metropolis, N.Y., throughout digital celebration. Award acknowledges people “who share Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, international consciousness, and dedication to Japanese and Western cultural change.” Watch Event
MAGAZINES | Nov. 16: Portrait of President Obama by Jordan Casteel (“Barack,” 2020) accompanies Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in The Atlantic. He interviewed Obama about his new guide “A Promised Land” and state of America’s democracy.
APPOINTMENT | Nov. 18: Yesomi Umolu named director of curatorial affairs and public observe at The Serpentine in London. Umolo had been serving as curator of Logan Middle Exhibitions at Logan Middle for the Arts at College of Chicago and was inventive director of 2019 Chicago Structure Biennial.
AWARDS & GRANTS | Nov. 18: Recognizing girls artists 40 years of age and older, recipients of 2020 Nameless Was a Girl awards announced, together with Linda Goode Bryant, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Virginia Jaramillo, Karyn Olivier, and Juana Valdés amongst 10 artists receiving $25,000 grants.
AWARDS & GRANTS | Nov. 18: Andy Warhol Basis Arts Writers Grants (starting from $15,000-$50,000) announced in three categories. 2020 recipients embody Arnold Joseph Kemp and Oluremi C. Onabanjo (Articles); Jerry Philogene (Books); and Colony Little and Jessica Lynne (Brief-Kind Writing).
APPOINTMENTS | Nov. 19: Detroit Institute of Arts announces 11 new board members, together with Lane Coleman, Nancy Mitchell, Marsha Philpot, Jason Tinsley, and Rhonda D. Welburn.
APPOINTMENTS | Nov. 20: Hammer Museum in Los Angeles announces eight new appointments, together with addition of artist Charles Gaines to museum’s board of administrators.
AWARDS & HONORS > | Nov. 26: Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, founders and inventive administrators of Berlin-based Up to date And, together named 2020 European Cultural Supervisor of the 12 months. Watch Video | From left, Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba. Photograph by Benjamin Renter
ARCHIVES | Nov. 27: Smithsonian Archives of American Artwork launches oral history project to seize experiences and insights from artists, lecturers, curators, and directors throughout interval of pandemic and protest. Individuals embody Mark Bradford, Fred Eversley, and Deana Haggag. Read More
AWARDS & HONORS | Nov. 30: Freelands Award 2020, from Freelands Basis in London, goes to MK Gallery and Ingrid Pollard, British photographer, media artist, and researcher. Award contains £100,000 (about $123,000 US) to host main solo exhibition of Pollard’s work in 2022.
MONUMENT TO MAYA | San Francisco Arts Fee flip flops on fee received by Lava Thomas to create monument honoring Maya Angelou at major department of public library. Her profitable design is rejected initially as a result of metropolis supervisor Catherine Stefani who authored laws calling for monument most well-liked a figurative illustration of Angelou, reasonably than book-inspired bronze set up Thomas proposed. In August, Stefani and Mayor London Breed privately apologize to artist and achieve this publicly in October. “For the ache I precipitated you, Ms. Thomas, and the method you could have needed to endure, I’m really sorry,” Steffani says. In November, fee votes unanimously to reinstate Thomas’s design. Her “Portrait of a Phenomenal Girl” shall be first monument to girl of shade on San Francisco metropolis property. | Lava Thomas proposal for Maya Angelou monument titled “Portrait of a Phenomenal Girl,” Courtesy San Francisco Arts Fee
DECEMBER
MAGAZINES | December 2020: Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell photographs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for canopy of Vainness Truthful.
BOOKS > | Dec. 1: From co-editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, “Black Futures” makes an attempt to reply query, “What does it imply to be Black and alive proper now?” Their response is huge quantity gathering snapshots from up to date Black life—pictures, memes, artworks, many conversations, and all types of writings, together with unique essays.
APPOINTMENTS | Dec. 1: Sophia Matthews Partlow joins The Harvey B. Gantt Middle for African-American Arts + Tradition in Charlotte, N.C., as vice chairman of communications and expertise innovation.
ART FAIRS | Dec. 1: Prizm Artwork Truthful 2020, solely Miami Artwork week honest centered solely on Black artwork, presented online given pandemic, by way of its web site and Artsy, from Dec. 1-21, 2020 (VIP entry begins Nov. 30).
EXHIBITIONS | Dec. 2: First European exhibition devoted to Gee’s Bend quilters opens at Alison Jaques Gallery in London, that includes 11 artists spanning three generations from Alabama group.
AWARDS & HONORS | Dec. 2: Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama receives 2020 Principal Prince Claus Award recognizing groundbreaking achievements in tradition and improvement, from Prince Clause Fund for Tradition and Growth, based mostly in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Watch Video
EXHIBITIONS | Dec. 2: “Fly in League With the Night,” first main survey of British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye opens at Tate Britain, that includes about 80 portraits courting from 2003.
MAGAZINES | Dec. 2: London-based Artwork Evaluation reveals annual Power 100 list, with Black Lives Matter motion occupying No. 1 spot; Bénédicte Savoy, Fred Moten, Arthur Jafa, Thelma Golden, Saidiya Hartman, Darren Walker, Pamela J. Joyner, Steve McQueen, and Titus Kaphar rounding out the highest 20; and unprecedented complete of 21 Black artists, curators, students represented on full checklist (together with BLM and École Kourtrajmé collective, based by French movie director Ladj Ly).
DESIGN | Dec. 9: Inside designer Sheila Bridges launches new collection of Harlem Toile furnishings and equipment with The Inside. View collection
TELEVISION | Dec. 12: On the event of his exhibition “SELF MUST DIE” at Petzel gallery in New York, Derek Fordjour is profiled on CBS This Morning. CBS Information speaks to a couple different artists throughout 2020, together with Betye Saar, Kadir Nelson, and Titus Kaphar. Protection additionally contains preserving African American dioramas.
AWARDS & HONORS | Dec. 15: Revealed to doc Deborah Roberts exhibition at Spelman Faculty Museum of High-quality Artwork, “Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi” receives 2020 Mary Ellen LoPresti Art Publication Award, from Southeast Chapter of Artwork Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA).
Dec. 16: Trendy Artwork Museum of Fort Value acquires “The Seated III” (2019) by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, from collection of 4 works titled The NewOnes will free Us, commissioned by Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York for museum’s inaugural facade set up. Earlier in 12 months, in July, The Met additionally acquired two works from the group—”The Seated I” (2019) and “The Seated III” (2019). | WANGECHI MUTU, “The Seated III,” 2019 (bronze, 82 7/8 × 37 3/4 × 33 3/4 inches). © Wangechi Mutu, Assortment of Trendy Artwork Museum of Fort Value, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Pictures by Joseph Coscia Jr.
EXHIBITIONS | Dec. 17: “Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design” opens at SCAD FASH Museum of Vogue + Movie in Atlanta, showcasing 4 many years of designs by Ruth Carter, from Spike Lee’s movies to Marvel’s “Black Panther.”
ACQUISITIONS | Dec. 28: Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington, D.C., announces major acquisition from Souls Grown Deep Basis in Atlanta—40 works by 21 African American artists from U.S. South, together with 9 quilts by Gee’s Bend, Ala., artists.
PUBLIC ART | Dec. 30: Moynihan Practice Corridor, enlargement of Penn Station in New York Metropolis, unveiled with art installations by Kehinde Wiley and Stan Douglas. CT
KEHINDE WILEY, “Go,” 2020 (stained glass with aluminum body, gypsum molding, metal construction, and LED gentle panel, 17’6” L x 55’8” W x 10” D). | Commissioned by Empire State Growth in partnership with Public Artwork Fund
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