de Young Museum Acquires Rashaad Newsome’s Thirst Trap, 2020, photo collage on paper in mahogany and resin artist frame with custom automotive paint.
Rashaad Newsome | Sothebys Magazine
Getting Real! For Rashaad Newsome, AI is just one device he uses in his storytelling.
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photo by Keenan Newman
In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 29 June – 18 September 2022 and Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands 19 November 2022 – 9 April 2023
In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 29 June – 18 September 2022 and Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands 19 November 2022 – 9 April 2023
Myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions, and the legacy of Afrofuturism are all sampled, reimagined, and recontextualized in In the Black Fantastic.
Encompassing painting, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed-media installations, the exhibition creates immersive aesthetic experiences that bring the viewer into a new environment somewhere between the real world and a multiplicity of imagined ones. While some artists disrupt our understanding of the past, others invite us to imagine fantastical futures. In this exhibition, fantasy becomes a zone of creative and cultural liberation and a means of addressing racism and social injustice by conjuring new ways of being in the world.
In the Black Fantastic is curated by Ekow Eshun and features the artists Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom, Ellen Gallagher, Hew Locke, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Chris Ofili, Tabita Rezaire, Cauleen Smith, Lina Iris Viktor, and Kara Walker.
In the Black Fantastic is generously supported by the US Embassy London, Gagosian, Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation, Victoria Miro, David Zwirner, Pilar Corrias, and Sprüth Magers.
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‘unlikely to be a better show this year’
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‘a magnificent experience, spectacular from first to last’
-The Observer
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-The Guardian
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‘powerful, affecting and often very, very beautiful’
-Time Out
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‘rich and strange… visual fabulousness and flair’
-The Telegraph
Rashaad Newsome featured in Musée Magazine Issue 27
NOW AVAILABLE
ISSUE NO. 27 PERFORMANCE
What does performance mean to us in a world of mediated presence? It’s easy to look at performance as a departure from authenticity, as an act of pretense. Yet every social interaction is operating on some level of performativity: from the way we text or the clothes we wear, the impression we make on others is manipulated by our conscious act of self-creation. The act of putting on a show is thus not distancing from authenticity, but it can glean us into the very heart of life, existence, and its contended truths.
Issue No. 27: Performance features 10 artists, 8 spotlight artists, and 30 emerging photographers including Rashaad Newsome, Malick Sidibé, Alec Soth, Michael Avedon, and Marilyn Minter. The issue asks what the significance of performance might mean for these individual artists’ own relationship with themselves and the world.
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Rashaad Newsome: Build or Destroy, January 15–February 26, 2022 Minnesota Street Project Foundation-Gallery 106
Rashaad Newsome: Build or Destroy
Opening Artist Reception | January 15, 2022, | 4-6 pm
Minnesota Street Project Foundation (MSP Foundation) is pleased to announce the public debut of Build or Destroy, by multimedia artist Rashaad Newsome. Build or Destroy is the fourth exhibition by the inaugural grantees of MSP Foundation’s California Black Voices Project, which launched in 2020. For more info click HERE!
