[EXHIBITION] ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’ at Richard Taittinger Gallery,...
Richard Taittinger Gallery is presents ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?‘, a summer exhibition of works by a diverse group of contemporary artists from Africa, curated by Ugochukwu Smooth C. Nzewi,...
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[EXHIBITION] Material Effects at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Nov 7 –...
Material Effects – on from Nov 7, 2015 – April 3, 2016 – brings together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials,...
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[EXHIBITION] Otobong Nkanga: Crumbling Through Powdery Air
Featured Image: Otobong Nkanga, The Make Up, 2015. Photograph. Last summer at the Berlin Biennale Otobong Nkanga presented “In Pursuit of Bling”, an exhibition that brought forth questions of natural...
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A Deeper Look at ‘The Gown must go to Town’ Exhibition
The Gown must go to Town is an exhibition of emergent art in the Department of Painting and Sculpture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. The title is culled...
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Deconstructing Lauren Muller: On being a young, black artist in New York City
Featured Photo by Soo Ji Lee Lauren Muller, a twenty-one year old film student and painter at the School of Visual Arts, exudes the aura of a young, contemporary New York artist. With her industrial...
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Sokari Douglas Camp in ‘No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990′...
Established Nigerian-British artist Sokari Douglas Camp creates story through sculpture. She sometimes gives her sculptures titles that, without the context of the artwork, could almost double as...
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4 Rising Women in Art You Should Know
This month, here at AADAT!, we have chosen to celebrate the women who contribute to art within the Diaspora. Art has always been a great form of expression. Today with the help of the Internet, we have...
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[EXHIBITION] Raél Jero Salley, Present at Gallery Momo, July 9 – Aug 3
“I’m fascinated by notions of autonomy, liberation and freedom. My work explores the dynamic relationships between art and freedom in various modes. In this way, perhaps new visions can appear to show...
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The Milk Bottle Project: A Memorial to Slavery
Pittsburgh-based artist Alexi Morrissey, like many Americans, never learned the excruciating details of the slave trade in school, “What we were taught was slavery was bad, the Yankees went down there...
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10 Caribbean Artists You Should Know
In this post written by Ellesse Garvin, learn about 10 Caribbean artists to know. Ebony G Patterson Meet the Jamaican based artist, Ebony G. Patterson, whose mixed media artwork questions the...
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