Happenings

Visual Arts

• Jesse Krimes | Creative Capital Premiere | Jesse Krimes: Corrections | The Met, New York, NY | Through July 13, 2025
• Wafaa Bilal | Creative Capital Project Premiere | Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me | MCA Chicago, Chicago | Through October 19, 2025

• Jordan Ann Craig | The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket | Hales Gallery, New York, NY | Through June 21, 2025
• Futurefarmers (Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine) | Silicon Forest: Understories of Trees and Data | Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR | Through June 21, 2025
• Lucy Kim | Pigment Spells | Praise Shadows, Brookline, MA | Through June 27, 2025
• Artemio Rodriguez | Lotería de la Vida (The Daily Gamble) | Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA | Through June 28, 2025
• Black Quantum Futurism | The Memory Vortex Inn | Performance Space, NYC | Through June 30, 2025
• Cannupa Hanska Luger | Speechless  | Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | Through July 6, 2025
• Tanya Aguiñiga | Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall Height  | BAMPFA | Berkeley, CA | Through July 13, 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
• 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
• 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

Performance

• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | Purpose on Broadway | Helen Hayes Theater, New York, NY | Through July 6, 2025
• Black Quantum Futurism (Moor Mother, Rasheedah Phillips), Vijay Iyer | Blacktronika Festival in SummerStage 2025 | Central Park, New York, NY | August 17, 2025
• Larissa FastHorse |Fancy Dancer | Seattle Rep, Seattle, WA | September 18–November 2, 2025

Film

• 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