David Adjaye design planned for Studio Museum in Harlem

Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion
by Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times, July 5, 2015

Afrofuturism: Black to the future!

[BLACK ALT] What Is Afrofuturism?
Has Janelle Monae become the poster girl to a movement that started way back with Octavia Butler, Samuel Delaney and Lt. Uhura?
by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, October 1, 2013

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Black in the future 
Announcement of Studio Museum in Harlem's Afrofuturism exhibition, The Shadows Took Shape (Nov 14, 2013 - Mar 9, 2014)
InfiniteBody, July 10, 2013

Black...in the future

Studio Museum in Harlem

presents

The Shadows Took Shape 

Nov 14, 2013 - Mar 9, 2014

The Shadows Took Shape is a dynamic interdisciplinary exhibition exploring contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics. Coined in 1994 by writer Mark Dery in his essay “Black to the Future,” the term “Afrofuturism” refers to a creative and intellectual genre that emerged as a strategy to explore science fiction, fantasy, magical realism and pan-Africanism. With roots in the avant-garde musical stylings of sonic innovator Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, 1914–1993), Afrofuturism has been used by artists, writers and theorists as a way to prophesize the future, redefine the present and reconceptualize the past. The Shadows Took Shape will be one of the few major museum exhibitions to explore the ways in which this form of creative expression has been adopted internationally and highlight the range of work made over the past twenty-five years.

Read more here.

Studio Museum in Harlem

144 West 125th Street (between Lenox Avenue (Malcolm X Boulevard) and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard (7th Avenue), Manhattan

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Ralph Lemon exhibition to open at SMH

Studio Museum in Harlem presents

Ralph Lemon

1856 Cessna Road

March 29-May 27 

Drawing from an eight-year project by New York-based movement artist Ralph Lemon (b. 1952) in conjunction with Little Yazoo, Mississippi resident Walter Carter (1907–2010), 1856 Cessna Road explores a friendship that evolved into a close collaboration and features digital animation, large-scale color photographs and a film installation.

Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street, Manhattan
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Ishmael Houston-Jones launches "Parallels"

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Here's a brief report on last night's launch of Parallels, the latest Danspace Project platform. The series opened with a fascinating evening of conversation featuring Parallels curator--dancer-choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones--with Kenya-born artist Wangechi Mutu and Thomas J. Lax at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

For complete information about Danspace Project and Parallels, click here.