Oakland Museum of California Announces Recent Acquisition of Rashaad Newsome work to its Permanent Collection

Parenting While Black

2020

Photo collage on paper, in custom mahogany and resin artist frame with automotive paint

45 x 49 3/4 x 3 5/8in

Rashaad Newsome’s work Parenting While Black was created at his home in Oakland during the COVID-19 pandemic this year. While sheltering in place, the work reflects the experience of being in isolation and observing the ongoing and increasingly visible violence against Black people, and the crippling anxiety that a parent must feel losing a child in this way. Newsome’s multidisciplinary approach draws from Black and queer cultural histories to create contemporary narratives, centering on intersectionality. Parenting While Black will appear in OMCA’s upcoming 2021 exhibition Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism. Full Press Release Here!

Black Magic, December 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020 in Times Square

Black Magic

December 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020

Rashaad Newsome

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

11:30 pm – 12 am, Thursday, December 10, 2020
Duffy Square, Broadway, and 46th St

Rashaad Newsome, Times Square Arts, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum invite the public to a special live performance in celebration of Newsome’s December Midnight Moment, Black Magic.

Black Magic premieres on December 1, 2020, in commemoration of World Aids Day.

Rashaad Newsome returns to the screens of Times Square with Black Magic, a multi-channel, site-specific work that combines improvisational performance with his animations of mesmerizing, vibrant, and intricately designed graphics. Black Magic is Newsome’s second Midnight Moment, following The Conductor in 2015.

Carefully choreographed across 72 digital displays each night in December, Black Magic carves out a space for transgression and liberation within the dominant culture of Times Square, while also resonating with the district’s long history as a gathering place for celebration, protest, creativity, and performance. It is a fitting close to a year in which Times Square has been a frequent site of rallies and vigils grieving and protesting racial injustice.

 

More info here!

Minnesota Street Project Foundation is excited to announce the first five grantees of the California Black Voices Project.


Minnesota Street Project Foundation is excited to announce the first five grantees of the California Black Voices Project. Each grantee receives $10,000 and space at the 1275 Minnesota Street Project Galleries to feature their newly developed works in 2021. Works will also be presented on Adjacent, Minnesota Street Project’s virtual space for art.

Eyebeam announces Rashaad Newsome as a phase 2 fellow of Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future

Meet the Phase 2 Fellows
The artists and collectives include Rashaad Newsome, Aladin Borioli, Valencia James, Juan Pablo García Sossa, Dillon Sung, Xin Xin, and the collectives Solar Protocol and Veil Machine. In July, Eyebeam awarded 30 artists hailing from nearly every continent with fellowships and grants of $5,000; the second phase artists will receive an additional $25,000 to take their proposals to action immediately.

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence announces Rashaad Newsome as the 2020/2021 artist in residence.

During his residency, Newsome will work on the third generation of his Artificial Intelligence project, Being  2.0. This iteration will act as emancipation from 1.0’s role as an exhibition tour guide and 1.5 roles as a virtual therapist. 2.0 will reimagine non-Eurocentric archives and education models like the griot, a West African cultural figure that functions as a historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, musician, and healer. As a digital griot, Being’s purpose is to teach us how to radically decolonize through a series of workshops that combine lecture, movement, storytelling, narrative exposure therapy, and meditation.

KNOT included in Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings

Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings

September 9–November 8, 2020, starts at 6 pm

Brooklyn Museum Plaza

September 9–October 11 Schedule:
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays | September 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 27, and 30 | October 1, 4, 7, 8, and 11

  • Ebony G. Patterson. . . . three kings weep . . ., 2018. 8 min., 34 sec.
  • Wangechi Mutu. Eat Cake, 2012. 12 min., 45 sec.
  • Tourmaline. Salacia, 2019. 6 min., 4 sec.
  • Marilyn Minter. Smash, 2014. 7 min.
  • Rashaad Newsome. KNOT, 2014. 3 min., 45 sec.
  • Nari Ward with Zachary Fabri. Crusader, 2006. 15 min.
  • Sasha Wortzel. This is an Address I, 2019. 17 min., 12 sec.
  • Sasha Wortzel. This is an Address II, 2019. 9 min., 3 sec.
  • Ahmed Mater. Leaves Fall in All Seasons, 2013. 19 min., 57 sec.
  • Liz Johnson Artur. AfroRussia, 2019. 13 min., 45 sec.

Fridays and Saturdays (program screens twice each evening) | September 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26 | October 2, 3, 9, and 10

  • Steffani Jemison. Personal, 2014. 6 min., 45 sec.
  • Sable Elyse Smith. How We Tell Stories to Children, 2015. 5 min., 51 sec.
  • Arthur Jafa. akingdoncomethas, 2018. 1 hr., 41 min.

View a PDF with more information about the videos on view September 9–October 11.