Art News & Updates

BLACK ART 2025 – THE FORECAST 

What trends are you forecasting for Black art in 2025? How will the political climate impact arts funding? Pigment International wants to know. Have a prognostication for the new year, please share it with us at pigmentintl@gmail.com. We might reach out for your opinion, so be prepared.  

And make sure to check out our Pigment Newsletter’s January 5th issue, when we cover the must-see exhibitions for January – March 2025.  

MIAMI PHOTO GALLERY

Please enjoy these photos from Miami Art Week and many thanks to Ming Joi, The Joi of Art and Vincent Ugokwe, Dozie Arts for sharing these images.  

Top - God of the Soil, FUZE Caribbean Art Fair at SCOPE Miami Beach. Band of Vices at Context featuring Al-Basser Holly. Deborah Willis, Civil War Series, Welancora Gallery at Art Basel. Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic at SCOPE Miami Beach. All photos by Ming Joi.

Chance the Rapper with gallerist Vincent Ugokwe of Dozie Arts at PRIZM Art Fair. Photos provided by Vincent Ugokwe.

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And for last minute holiday shopping pick up a Pigment International Magazine at these Black owned retailers – Connect Gallery, Essential Elements, Fourtune House Gallery  and Women’s Live Artist Studio in Navy Pier all in the CHI. 

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY ARTS.BLACK

This month marks the 10th anniversary of ARTS.BLACK. Pigment International covered the groundbreaking editors Taylor Aldridge and Jessica Lynne in 2018.

As we embark on a year of following our north star, Art |Activism | Empowering Black Women, we are excited to share their milestone. Big ideas and beliefs about writing and how it might live in harmony with other thinkers and artists led the friends to start the platform in 2014. They wanted art criticism to have a stake in conversations about Black art, however imperfect they were. The question they sought to answer was where are all the Black art critics?     

Lynne and Aldridge have answered that question now for a decade.  

SAYING GOODBYE TO GIANTS

While we have all been thrown for a loop with the deaths of Quincy Jones and Nikki Giovanni, the art world is mourning the passing of grand dame Lorraine O’Grady.  IG has been overflowing with photos and praise and Pigment is sad that we never had the pleasure to meet, mainly because she looked as if she was having a ball. 

O’Grady, 90, was a concept-based artist and cultural critic widely regarded as a leading intellectual voice of her generation. Working across media and disciplines––including writing, photography, performance, curating, installation, and video O’Grady challenged artistic and cultural conventions through her incisive critique of the binary logic inherent in Western thought.

In the words of Dawoud Bey, “May Lorraine’s spirit soar and be at peace. Her legacy will continue to inspire present and future generations.”

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