Barkley L. Hendricks, Sweet Thang (Lynn Jenkins), 1975, Courtesy Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

This fall, The Studio Museum in Harlem will be the second stop for the first career retrospective of renowned African-American painter Barkley L. Hendricks (b. 1945).

Carla Edwards, Dreamery Re-Do’s and Such (still), 2004, Courtesy the artist

VideoStudio is a new, ongoing series of video and time-based art. Just as the frames of a video change with the passing of time, this project presents programs that rotate monthly.

Shinique Smith will be the second artist to activate the Project Space with an installation designed and executed especially for the gallery.

Lauren Kelley, Church Picnic, 2008, 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.

Kehinde Wiley, Rubin Singleton, 2008, Courtesy artist and Deitch Projects

The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar is Kehinde Wiley’s (b. 1977) first solo exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem and features ten new paintings from his multinational “The World Stage” series.

Tanea Richardson, In Protection of Our Bodies, 2008, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Marc Bernier

Leslie Hewitt, Riffs on Real Time (1 of 10), 2006-9, Courtesy the artist

Saya Woolfalk, Self (adolescent – pink) and Self (adolescent – blue), 2008, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Marc Bernier

The Studio Museum’s mezzanine galleries will be transformed by three bodies of new work and site-specific installations in New Intuitions. Leslie Hewitt, Tanea Richardson and Saya Woolfalk have markedly distinct practices, but each artist insists on raising questions about our accepted ways of seeing reality.

Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P. V, fall 1976, Courtesy Thomas Erben Gallery, New York

Rashawn Griffin, Untitled (detail), 2008, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Collier Schorr

Senga Nengudi (b. 1943) is a truly multidisciplinary artist whose career has covered dance, sculpture, installation, video, text and performance.

Christeen Penon, Cognate Souls, 2008, Courtesy the artist

The young photographers in this year’s Expanding the Walls exhibition, Eye Notes, approach documentary art in a variety of ways as they present their work alongside a selection of James VanDerZee’s classic Harlem portraits.

Edgar Arceneaux, 1968, 1997, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Courtesy the artist

Nearly forty years ago, shortly after opening its doors to the public, The Studio Museum in Harlem established its permanent collection through the generosity of both artists and donors.

Miguel Calderón, Purple Haze/Purple Rain, 2008

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.

George E. Lewis

StudioSound invites musicians, producers and musical innovators to create original compositions inspired by the works on view. Travelogue, the latest iteration of StudioSound, presents at least eight hours of sonic environments, but was nearly twenty years in the making, according to George E. Lewis, its creator. Lewis’s career provided many opportunities for him to travel, and handheld cameras documented his voyages to places such as the Great Wall of China. On further reflection, Lewis says, “I pointed my camera at things that sounded good.” Nearly twenty years of that reflex produced Travelogue.

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.