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Getahun Assefa Balcha (Ethiopian, 1967), Women Fishing, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 199 x 100 cm.

Painting brushes, Rebecca Szeto

Indian Act speaks of the realities of colonization - the effects of contact, and its often-broken and untranslated contracts. The piece consists of all 56 pages of the Canadian Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on stroud cloth and sewn over with red and white glass beads. Each word is replaced with white beads sewn into the document; the red beads replace the negative space.

   Lionel Smit peintre , sculpteur Sud Africain contemporain

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Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter On Sunday, July 10, over one hundred black women artists gathered to form a collective force underground, known as Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (BWA for BLM). Simone Leigh, the current artist in residence at the New Museum, convened this group in response to the continued inhumane institutionalized violence against black lives. The group will hold a public event in solidarity with Black Lives Matter at the New Museum on September 1. This dynamic evening will feature collectively organized healing workshops, performances, digital works, participatory exchanges, displays, and the distribution of materials throughout the New Museum Theater, Lobby, Fifth Floor, and Sky Room. BWA for BLM focuses on the interdependence of care and action, invisibility and visibility, self-defense and self-determination, and desire and possibility in order to highlight and disavow pervasive conditions of racism. For updates and information on BWA for BLM, please follow the group on Twitter () and Instagram (@BWAforBLM). New Museum event page: http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1061/black-women-artists-for-black-lives-matter FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/bwaforblm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BWAforBLM Twitter: https://twitter.com/BWAforBLM

Moody Blue Girl from Colored People Series (1990)  by Carrie Mae Weems

BPF OPEN16 Young Photographers Winner

Wall Street, Kristen Visbel

Solitude (2014) by Adel Abdessemed

Julio Le Parc, Martha Le Parc wearing glasses for another vision, 1965

“No other field is closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.”

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Faith Ringgold, Committee to Defend the Panthers, poster, 1970

early experimental photograph of Archie Savage by Carl Van Vechten (1930s)

Tomás Saraceno, Stillness in Motion – Cloud Cities, (2016) at SFMOMA.

Self-Portrait (detail), 1914, Romaine Brooks