New York: The Living Legacy of the Kamoinge Workshop, a Force in Black Photography

Smell 'ya later Trump (or hopefully never). To mark the historic inauguration of Vice President Kamal

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Smell ‘ya later Trump (or hopefully never). To mark the historic inauguration of Vice President Kamala Harris, why not check out Protect Black Women?The special shorts program presented by Metrograph and Alfreda’s Cinema honors the intellectual might of Black womenAlso worth perusing are reviews of Rachel Eulena Williams’s vibrant abstractions and Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee’s delightfully debased humor, and deep dives into the photographs of the influential Kamoinge Collective and Rudy Burckhardt.– Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

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The Living Legacy of the Kamoinge Workshop

Ming Smith, "America seen through Stars and Stripes, New York City, New York" (image courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; © Ming Smith)

Working Together, now on view at the Whitney Museum, pays tribute to the influential Black photography collective, the Kamoinge Workshop. While the images on view offer a feast for the eyes, the exhibition “stops short of broaching the fullness of [the collective’s] living, ongoing history.”Read Rachell Morillo’s full review of the show here.

SPONSORED SVA’s Spring 2021 Continuing Education Courses Begin January 25 Courses are available in a variety of subjects including fine arts, photography, visual narrative, and many more.

A Special Inauguration Day Film Program

Films That Center and Celebrate the Might of Black Women On the eve of Kamala Harris’s historic inauguration, Protect Black Women highlights the lives and interiority of those who have “historically been the most vulnerable.” Dessane Lopez Cassell | available on-demand January 20–25

Latest Reviews

Rachel Eulena Williams's Threads of Abstraction The strength of Williams’s new work lies in its transgression of aesthetic and, by extension, social and political lines, which are drawn more sharply in these fraught times. Jason Stopa

The Delightfully Debased Art of Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee Contrary to the laconic distance experienced among Eisenman’s works, Boadwee’s radiates a frenetic energy that stimulates the senses. Ksenia M. Soboleva

Rudy Burckhardt’s Innocent Eye Burckhardt was never surreptitious; he did not hide his camera, and his subjects often knew they were being photographed. John Yau

The Independent Spirit of Herbert Gentry Gentry was one of a number of Black artists who had to navigate the art world’s demand to emphasize their racial identity in the “right” way. John Yau

What's Happening?

The Guggenheim Museum announced on January 14 that it has named Naomi Beckwith as its deputy director and chief curator. The Vessel has shuttered indefinitely after a third person died by suicide by jumping off the structure in less than a year. A viral TikTok account called Sink Reviews boasts over 712,000 followers, expanding the digital world of faucet criticism.

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