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🖼✍️🏾reposted @whitneymuseum This Free Friday Nights, join us at the Whitney for a special screening of 100 Years of Debbie Allen, followed by a conversation with @therealdebbieallen and moderated by award-winning television writer/producer, author, and arts advocate @madamfaleshill.

Prior to the screening, enjoy a special pop-up class created by Debbie Allen, Dancing in the Light: Healing with the Arts, and a live DJ set in the Museum Lobby. Exclusive @officialdadance merchandise—including limited-edition Debbie Allen tribute Barbie collectibles—will be available at the Whitney Shop all evening.

🗓️ Friday, May 8

🕰️ 5–10 pm, with dance class from 6–7 and film screening from 7:30–9

📍 Whitney Museum

99 Gansevoort St, NYC 10014

🎟️ Free, registration required for the film screening

🔗 in @whitneymuseum’s bio to read more and register for free

Although tickets for this Thursday's talk with #AmySherald at the #WhitneyMuseum are sold out, the event will be recorded and available to watch on the @whitneymuseum's youtube channel.

Also, do not miss "Amy Sherald: American Sublime" exhibition, which is on view at the Whitney through August 10, 2025.

Image and Information reposted from the @whitneymuseum: This Thursday at 6 pm, join us for an evening of conversation with artist @asherald, writer and cultural commentator @toureshow, curator @rjkhckly, and artist and activist @basit_ on Amy Sherald: American Sublime.

The panel will discuss Sherald’s practice and her unique approach to representing Blackness through depictions of everyday Black Americans.

Link in bio to get your tickets.

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Amy Sherald, All Things Bright and Beautiful, 2016. Oil on canvas, 54 × 43 × 2 1/2 in. (137.16 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm). Collection of Frances and Burton Reifler. © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Joseph Hyde

#ArtistTalk #BlackGirlArtGeeks

Artist @asherald 's "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)" is this week's @newyorkermag cover. I am so excited that her traveling exhibition "Amy Sherald: American Sublime" lands in #NYC at the @whitneymuseum on April 9!

Image & caption reposted from @newyorkermag The cover of this week’s Spring Style & Design issue is “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” by Amy Sherald (@asherald). Read the full cover story:

Images & caption reposted from @hyperallergic A sweeping exhibition of works by the acclaimed American #painter #AmySherald, best known for her portraits of former First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is coming to New York City this spring. Nearly 50 portraits of Black Americans will go on display as part of “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” at the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 9 through August 10. The mid-career survey is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a New York museum.

Spanning works from 2007 to the present, the show will explore Sherald’s signature figures rendered with skin tones in shades of gray and colorful clothing against vibrant backgrounds, merging black-and-white photography aesthetics and American Realist painting traditions to redress art history’s long exclusion of Black subjects in portraiture.

Read the story by Hyperallergic Staff Writer @mayapontone:

1 - Amy Sherald, “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” (2014) (© Amy Sherald, photo by Joseph Hyde; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

2 - Amy Sherald, “Breonna Taylor” (2020) (© Amy Sherald)

3 - Amy Sherald, “They Call Me Redbone, but I’d Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake” (2009) (© Amy Sherald, photograph by Ryan Stevenson; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

4 - Amy Sherald, “For Love, and for country” (2022) (© Amy Sherald, photo by Joseph Hyde; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

5 - Amy Sherald, “Saint Woman” (2015) (© Amy Sherald, photo by Joseph Hyde; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

6 - Amy Sherald, “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it” (2019) (© Amy Sherald)