The Long Road: Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor Peg–Legged Man, c. 1939-42 Pencil, poster paint on found cardboard 11. 5 × 8 inches Bill Traylor Untitled (Black Male dog with red eye and tongue), n.d. Pencil and poster paint on found...
View ArticleIn Conversation Jocelyn Cooper of AFROPUNK
Jocelyn Cooper Jocelyn Cooper, a music industry veteran who has worked with such artists as Beyoncé and Sean Garrett, collaborates with Matthew Morgan (former music manager of Santigold), to run...
View ArticleWho is Mimi Plange? Curatorial Fellow Monique Long highlights Harlem-based...
A vision board from Mimi Plange’s studio for her Spring 2012 collection. She was particularly inspired by the Herero women of Namibia. A look from the Mimi Plange 2012 collection Another interpretation...
View ArticleThe Shadows Took Shape tumblr is now online!
We’re excited to announce that a tumblr page accompanying the Fall/Winter 2013–14 Studio Museum exhibition The Shadows Took Shape launched today! The Shadows Took Shape on tumblr will serve as a source...
View ArticleBooks and Authors, Kids! Presents by Calvin A. Ramsey
Author Calvin A. Ramsey reading from his book, Ruth and the Green Book. Photo: Elan Ferguson Young participants worked on their own "Green Books". First, they put their names on the cover and then they...
View ArticleFace to Face with the Duke of NOLA Communications Assistant Kimberly Drew on...
Rashaad Newsome Duke of NOLA, 2011 Courtesy the artist and Marlborough Gallery, New York I really wish I had heeded everyone's warnings when I embarked on my vacation to New Orleans. Friends said,...
View ArticleOn Location Curatorial Intern Margo Cohen Ristorucci checks out Jacolby...
Jacolby Satterwhite programming his technology, preparing to film visitors to Recess Image courtesy the artist and Recess Activities, Inc., New York Jacolby getting his bodysuit on a mannequin for the...
View ArticlePrintmaking with Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School
Elan Ferguson working with students at Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School on a printmaking project Ink and brayers (rollers) on a palette for making monoprints A student works to carve a negative...
View ArticleMarvelous Dandies Allison Janae Hamilton presents her foppish subjects in...
In “Kingdom of the Marvelous,” Hamilton references thematic elements of traditional fashion portraiture to challenge how contemporary fashion photography has characterized the black male body as a...
View ArticleContinuing in the Spirit at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Theaster Gates See, Sit, Sup, Sing: Holding Court (installation view), 2012 The Studio Museum in Harlem Photo: Adam Reich Theaster Gates See, Sit, Sup, Sing: Holding Court (installation view from 125th...
View ArticlePermanent Collection Highlight Sonia Boyce: , 2006
Sonia Boyce (b. 1962, London, UK) Untitled (from the "Rivington Place Portfolio"), 2006 Hard, soft ground and spitbite etching on Pescia Magnani paper 30 × 20 inches Museum purchase with funds provided...
View ArticleThe New Studio Magazine is Here!
The cover of the Winter/Spring 2014 issue of Studio Image: Wanuri Kahiu, Pumzi (video still), 2009 Courtesy Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program The latest issue of Studio Magazine has...
View ArticleIntroducing Sable Smith Meet our New Education Assistant!
Sable Smith My name is Sable Elyse Smith, and I am the new Education Assistant here at The Studio Museum in Harlem. I am originally from Los Angeles, which is one of many reasons why I'm so passionate...
View ArticleAround Town Gulu Real Art Studio: Martina Bacigalupo
Obal Dennis: “I choose backgrounds according to the person’s request, depending on the purpose of the photograph. For instance the “UWMFO,” (United Women for Co-operative Saving Society) wants their...
View ArticleTerry Adkins 1953–2014
Terry Adkins performing at the Studio Museum November 13, 2013 Photo: Will Ragozzino The staff and trustees of The Studio Museum in Harlem mourn the tragic loss of a great artist, musician, teacher and...
View ArticleBreath and Body Questions for performance artist Dave McKenzie
Dave McKenzie Dave, 2010 Image courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Dave McKenzie Dave, 2010 Image courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Thomas Lax,...
View ArticleStudio Visit Alexis Peskine
Inside Alexis Peskine's studio Photo: Martha Scott Burton Inside Alexis Peskine's studio Photo: Martha Scott Burton Alexis Peskine Désintégration, 2011 Courtesy the artist Alexis Peskine Liberty...
View ArticleElsewhere Thelma's Current Exhibition Picks
Lamar Peterson The Window, 2010 Courtesy the artist and Fredricks & Freiser, New York Archibald Motley Nightlife, 1943 The Art Institute of Chicago; Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field,...
View ArticleEllison at 100 Livestream Watch it here!
Ralph Ellison lived in Harlem from the late 1930s until his death on April 16, 1994. He was a prominent figure in the neighborhood’s overlapping literary and artistic communities. Ellison at 100:...
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