100 Women: Adama Delphine Fawundu and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s MFON Gives Black Women Photographers a Home The biannual photography journal is named after Nigerian Photographer Mmekutmfon “Mfon” Essien Where the word “captures” is normally applicable in describing the work of a photographer, one could argue that the exact opposite is […]

Watch an exclusive clip from the artist’s short film—one of nine video and digital works at this year’s Play Miami Beach, the new media showcase of Pulse Contemporary Art Fair. BY MIN CHENOctober 6, 2017  Power in all its forms—individual, social, political, environmental—drives this year’s selection of video and digital […]

OCTOBER 16, 2017 8:30 AMby JACQUELINE ALEMANY 1/15 Nydia Blas, from the series The Girls Who Spun Gold, Ithaca, New York, 2016Courtesy of Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora In 1985, Arthur Ashe’s widow, the photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, published a historical survey that she called Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers. Viewfinders chronicled the work of the […]

RIANNA TURNER  2:08 AM, DEC 05, 2018 STAFF REPORTER Places are wrought with the histories of their inhabitants, who must retell these narratives — a burden that has historically been mismanaged. “In Plain Site/Sight,” an art exhibit that opened on Nov. 30 at Artspace New Haven, seeks to address these […]

Museums Review  In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists “In the Face of History,” by Adama Delphine Fawundu, is a wall of documents that are each topped with a silhouette of the artist’s head. (Adama Delphine Fawundu/Stereo Vision Photography/Honfleur Gallery) By Mark JenkinsSeptember 7, 2017 Originally describing African […]

Students of the 2018 MFA class are presenting strong work at the Wallach Art Gallery, many of them building large installations around their pieces. Zachary Small Tuition disputes be damned. Despite struggling with leaky pipes, overheated studios, and absentee professors, Columbia University’s visual arts MFA students have assembled a high-caliber […]

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Artist Tahir Hemphill discusses the impact of iconic hip-hop show Video Music Box on his work, and Ralph McDaniels, creator of Video Music Box, explains where the show is at today. From Brooklyn Independent Television’s Brooklyn On Site, episode 69. Original air date: 4/24/2012. http://www.bricartsmedia.org/bit