Kehinde Wiley, Mame Ngagne, 2007

The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar will feature of a selection of new paintings by former Studio Museum artist in residence Kehinde Wiley from his new multinational “World Stage” series. The exhibition, featuring paintings created during Wiley’s long-term travels in Nigeria and Senegal, is second in this series, for which Wiley temporarily relocates to different countries and opens satellite studios to become familiar with local culture and history (other “World Stage” sites include China, India, Poland and Turkey).

Tanea Richardson’s Studio 2008

In a multilingual leap from French to English, and every language in between, “chic” defines that which is sophisticated and undeniably contemporary. Leslie Hewitt, Tanea Richardson and Saya Woolfalk are the latest in a prestigious group to share the Studio Museum’s eponymous work spaces. They’re hard at work developing and refining their projects to offer up distinct, carefully considered artworks for their July exhibition.

Each January, the Studio Museum gathers a group of motivated high school students for its annual eightmonth, photography-based program that uses the James VanDerZee Archive—housed at the Museum—as a springboard for making art that explores notions of community, identity, history and culture.