Happenings
Published: March 31, 2025
Published: March 31, 2025
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Dakota Camacho performs in Pontan for the Matao New Performance Project, 2016. Photo: Jack Gray.
Published: March 31, 2025
Published: March 31, 2025
Visual Arts
- Dakota Camacho | Creative Capital Premiere | MALI’E’ • TÁTAOTAO | Pier 62, Seattle Waterfront, Seattle, WA | August 21, 2025
- Wafaa Bilal | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me | MCA Chicago, Chicago | Through October 19, 2025
- Dyani White Hawk | Creative Capital Premiere | Love Language | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | October 18, 2025–February 15, 2026
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Sandy Rodriguez, Resistance Map of Gulf of Mexico, 2025.
- Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, Edgar Arceneaux | Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics | LACMA, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 3, 2025
- Jennie C. Jones | Year of Construction | Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada | Through August 3, 2025
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Making Home: Cooper Hewitt Triennial | Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY | Through August 10, 2025
- Sandy Rodriguez | Currents of Resistance | The Ringling Museum of Art | Sarasota, FL | Through August 10, 2025
- Sarah Rosalena | Unending Spiral | BLUM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Through August 16, 2025
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel | Breathing Matter(s) | silent green, Berlin, Germany | July 18–August 24, 2025
- Garrett Bradley | Revolutions | Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Through September 7, 2025
- Stephanie Dinkins | If We Don’t, Who Will? | More Art, Brooklyn, NY | Through September 8, 2025
- Jeffrey Gibson | Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me | The Broad, Los Angeles, CA | Through September 28, 2025
- Jennie C. Jones | Ensemble | 2025 Roof Garden Commission | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Through October 19, 2025
- Carlos Motta | Pleas of Resistance | Museu d’Art Contemporarni de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain | Through October 26, 2025
- Simone Leigh, Will Rawls, Charisse Pearlina Weston | Group exhibition: Once Within a Time: 12th International | Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM | June 27, 2025–January 13, 2026
- Juan William Chavez | Art Pollination | Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL | October 10–January 18, 2026
- Robin Frohardt | Shopping Center Parking Lot | Texas Performing Arts, Austin, TX | March 6–March 7, 2026
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Black Quantum Futurism during a performance at MACBA Barcelona, 2021. Photo via Arts at Cern.
Performance
- Black Quantum Futurism (Moor Mother, Rasheedah Phillips), Vijay Iyer | Blacktronika Festival in SummerStage 2025 | Marcus Garvey Park, New York, NY | August 17, 2025
- Leilehua Lanzilotti | World Premiere of New York Philharmonic commission | New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, New York, NY | September 11–September 16, 2025
- Larissa FastHorse | Fancy Dancer | Seattle Rep, Seattle, WA | September 18–November 2, 2025
- Mason Bates | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | The Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY | September 21–October 11, 2025
- Wally Cardona, Tere O’Connor, Jasmine Hearn | Works in New York Live Arts | New York Live Arts, New York, NY | October 22, 2025–June 11, 2026
- Ethan Lipton | THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS | Presented by The Public Theater at The Newman Theater, New York, NY | October 24–November 30, 2025
- Aparna and Ashwini Ramaswamy | Ananta, The Eternal | BroadStage, Santa Monica, CA | October 25, 2025 at 7:30PM
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Still from Cauleen Smith’s The Volcano Manifesto (2025).
Film
- Cherien Dabis, Crystal Kayiza, Allison Janae Hamilton, Kevin Jerome Everson, Christopher Harris, Cauleen Smith | Films at Blackstar Film Festival | Philadelphia, PA and Online | July 31–August 3, 2025
- Michèle Stephenson | Mother Suriname and The Changing Same for Afroprop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange| Streaming on WORLD Channel and PBS
- Shola Lynch | Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood | Streaming on Apple TV
- Ramona S. Diaz | And So It Begins | Streaming on Independent Lens (PBS)
- Titus Kaphar | Exhibiting Forgiveness | Streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube
- Jasmín Mara López | Silent Beauty | Creative Capital project | Streaming on Amazon Prime
- Elaine McMillion Sheldon | King Coal | Creative Capital project | Streaming on PBS Documentaries Amazon Prime
- Cyrus Moussavi, Camae Ayewa and Rasheeda Phillips (Black Quantum Futurism) | Moor Mother:Jazz Codes | Mubi x Chanel Next Prize Collection | Streaming on Mubi
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A page from Cannupa Hanska Luger’s book SURVIVA (2025).
Literature
- Brian Harnetty | Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives | The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC | August 1, 2025
- heidi andrea restrepo rhodes | Wayward Creatures | Published by Host Publications | Available for preorder for release on August 30, 2025
- Cannupa Hanska Luger | SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide | Published by Ayin Press, September 2, 2025