Dawit L. Petros, Proposition 1: Mountain, 2007

Flow is the first twenty-first century exhibition focusing on art by a new generation of international artists from Africa. These artists are uniquely conscious of, and responsive to, recent African history, global economics and the idiosyncratic culture of the new millennium.

Charles Ethan Porter, Cherries, 1885

Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847-1923) is under-recognized today but was revered in his own time by well-known contemporaries such as Henry Ossawa Tanner and Edmonia Lewis, who worked in a more popular, figurative tradition. His paintings are masterpieces of American still-life tradition.

DJ Kemit

StudioSound invites musicians, producers and musical innovators to create original compositions inspired by the works on view. From Daniel Bernard Roumain’s classically inspired interpretation of Chris Ofili’s watercolors to DJ Scientific’s remix and reinvention of Harlem sounds, this commissioned project activates the Museum’s lobby and adds a parallel dimension to the art and artists on view.

Marc Handelman, Untitled, 2006

Represented, revered, and recognized by people around the world, Harlem is a continually expanding nexus of black culture, history and iconography.

Unknown Collection

Beauty, individuality, complexity and tradition are the known elements of style that define the Unknown Collection. This season, the Studio Museum is proud to feature Unknown Collection, a wearable art collection representing the jewelry of local artisans from eastern, western and southern Africa.

Elizabeth Catlett-Mora, Separation, 1954, The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist 72.9.5

Labor, Love, Live: Collection in Context presents an intimate selection of works on paper from The Studio Museum in Harlem’s permanent collection.

Kori Newkirk, Void of Silence, 2001, Courtesy The Project, New York

Kori Newkirk (b. 1970) is a celebrated multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice is based on transforming modest materials into loaded signifiers that question both cultural and aesthetic notions of beauty.

Kikkerland

The Studio Museum Store appeals to the young, the young-at-heart, the art aficionado and the collector of the charming oddity. Kikkerland’s artfully designed gadgets are tongue-in-cheek in their simplicity and vivacity.

Harlem Postcards

Represented, revered, and recognized by people around the world, Harlem is a continually expanding nexus of black culture, history and iconography.

Shift in Focus: Expanding the Walls 2007 Student Exhibition

When young photographers turn a conscious eye on the world, mundane moments gain the clarity and beauty of fresh perspective.

David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings

In London, a cube floats above rows of brick buildings and blends in with the sky on a partly cloudy day. Much like a cake, it is built in layers, though these layers are each composed of vertical beams of color and light. It is the award-winning Idea Store in Whitechapel, a building that represents what the BBC calls “the library of the future.”

Titus Kaphar

Midnight is the instant when yesterday and tomorrow meet. It is the witching hour, the time of reckoning and-in everything from fairy tales to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists-a moment fraught with equal parts magic and angst.

Lorna Simpson, Duet (film still), 2000

For nearly three decades, artist, photographer and filmmaker Lorna Simpson has challenged traditional visual media and how they represent the female African-American body.

Henry Taylor, Sis and Bra, 2004

After years of working odd jobs-including a ten-year stint as a psychiatric technician-the painter Henry Taylor is finally receiving acclaim as one of today’s most engaging emerging artists.

Philosophy of Time Travel

What if history had a mind of its own, moving from the past, through the present and into the future? A team of five artists is exploring this idea with a large-scale installation, Philosophy of Time Travel, opening April 11, 2007, at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Music for Architecture (Volume 1) by Peter Adjaye

StudioSound invites musicians, producers and musical innovators to create original compositions inspired by the works on view.