Romare Bearden, Prelude to Farewell, 1981, The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Altria Group, Inc. 08.13.2
Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection presents fourteen takes on the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Photo: Grant Delin
Kalup Linzy: If it Don’t Fit is the first museum survey of the artist’s work, and includes over twenty videos made over the last seven years, a drawing suite and a one-night acoustic performance.
Shinique Smith: Like it Like that, Installation view, Photo: Adam Reich
Multimedia artist, Shinique Smith, has activated the Studio Museum Project Space with Like it Like that, an installation designed specially for the gallery.
Lorna Simpson, Tree, 2009, Courtesy the artist
The Studio Museum’s ongoing series, Harlem Postcards, invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site for artistic contemplation and production.
Photo: Joshua Okrent
StudioSound invites musicians, producers and musical innovators to create original compositions inspired by the works on view.
Tuesday, May 5, 7-9 pm
Special Program: Rick Powell and Deb Willis
Richard J. Powell's latest book, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008) is about 19th, 20th and 21st century portraits of people of African descent in paintings, photographs, graphic arts and cinema.
Join Rick Powell in conversation with Deb Willis, art photographer and one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography, as they discuss their views on the significance and evolution of portraiture in capturing the experience of African-Americans and the people of the African Diaspora.
Click here to read an extended excerpt from Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture