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.

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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.

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.

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.

Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings

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

Brooklyn Museum Plaza

ART BASEL OVR:2020 VIRTUAL ART FAIR

23 – 26 SEPTEMBER 2020

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Jenkins Johnson features works reflecting international political and social issues of 2020 through the work of five African Diaspora artists: Rashaad Newsome, Lisa Corinne Davis, Blessing Ngobeni, Amani Lewis, and Raelis Vasquez. In line with the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “When you see something that is not right, you must stand up, speak up and speak out.”‘

Debuting at OVR:2020 is Rashaad Newsome’s neo-cubist collages, which are components of his new multi-disciplinary “Assembly” series. He draws on advertisements, the Internet, and black and queer culture to produce complex narratives on intersectionality and social practice. He has upcoming projects at Stanford University and Oakland Museum. He has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial. He is in collections, including the Whitney Museum, LACMA, SFMoMA, and Brooklyn Museum.’

Rashaad Newsome

Shade Compositions (SFMOMA)

Majeure Force marks Night Gallery’s first decade in Los Angeles and acts as a dilogy, anniversary exhibition that brings together a diverse roster of artists. The exhibition celebrates how in the first ten years, the gallery has grown from an artist-run storefront space to a premiere institution for contemporary art’s most exciting voices. Beyond showcasing the brilliance of the artists, it also pays tribute to the community that has grown around the gallery and continuously supported it, making Night Gallery a locus of imaginative exchange.

Opening reception: August 7, 6 pm, via Zoom
Performance by Amelia Bande, El Estallido / The Outbreak, 6:30 pm, via Zoom

Through video, installation, sculpture, poetry, performance, and archival documentation, the works in After La vida nueva explore constructions of self and nation by sifting through the unstable terrain of the past. Drawing on histories and archives of feminist, queer, and Third World liberation movements and responding to the uneven forces of neoliberalization, the artists suggest the pursuit of a new life that is concomitant with new ways of being together.

The exhibition features works by Amelia Bande, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, Renée Green, Rummana Hussain, Caroline Key, Alan Michelson, Rashaad Newsome, Catalina Parra, Cici Wu, and Raúl Zurita.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, After La vida nueva consists of an expanded catalogue, available for download, and an online component, hosted by Artists Space, where a weekly series of “spotlights” of different works in the exhibition will include screenings, archival documents, images, and text:

August 8 – 15: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Renée Green, Caroline Key, and Cici Wu
August 16 – 23: Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, Alan Michelson, Rashaad Newsome, and Catalina Parra
August 24 – 31: Amelia Bande, Rummana Hussain, Third World Gay Revolution and Juan Queiroz, and Raúl Zurita

Rashaad Newsome receives the Eyebeam Rapid Response Fellowship!