Black art
![Karimah Ashadu wins Silver Lion at Venice Biennale](/content/images/size/w960/2024/04/Machine-Boys-still-skid_Karimah-Ashadu.jpg)
The British-Nigerian artist is making her debut in Venice with the video Machine Boys, about motorcycle taxi drivers in Lagos. Ashadu previously won the Prize of the Bötterstraße in Bremen in 2022.
![Arthur Jafa installs a picture unit at 52 Walker](/content/images/size/w960/2024/03/jafa-apex.jpg)
The show includes a site-specific installation, a new series of paintings and sculptures and a new film. 52 Walker is a project space in New York established by David Zwirner.
![Aspen Art Museum showcases Cauleen Smith's poetic protest](/content/images/size/w960/2024/01/GIMME-SHELTER-CINEGLYPHS-1.jpg)
The exhibition highlights the fragile and ephemeral nature of humanity's relationship with Earth and effects of overconsumption and land development.
![Steve McQueen to debut new work at Dia Beacon](/content/images/size/w960/2023/12/mcqueen_webpage_beacon.png)
The installation, co-commissioned by Dia and Schaulager, is part of the first major presentation of McQueen's work in the United States in more than a decade.
![SAIC presents first major survey of works by Jacolby Satterwhite](/content/images/size/w960/2023/11/Satterwhite---We-Are-In-Hell-When-We-Hurt-Each-Other.jpg)
The exhibition, titled Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth, is curated by SAIC alum Elizabeth Chodos. It features more than 40 works spanning over a decade of the artist's career.
![William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar by BlackStar](/content/images/size/w960/2023/10/blackstar-greaves-seminar.jpg)
Curators, film programmers, filmmakers, and film scholars are invited to submit a proposal to present at the fourth Greaves Filmmaker Seminar.
![Justin Randolph Thompson exhibits Black histories at British School at Rome](/content/images/size/w960/2023/09/Justin-Randolph-Image-senza-testo_-credit-Bradly-Dever-Treadaway-1.jpg)
The exhibition, titled Minted in Enemy Bronze, presents a multi-faceted approach to the legacy of Black people and culture in Italy. This is Thompson's first solo show in the country.
![Sprüth Magers introduces first solo show with Martine Syms](/content/images/size/w960/2023/08/This-Is-A-Studio--Martine-Syms-2023.jpeg)
The show Loser Back Home features the artist's latest works, including a series of textile paintings made of stitched-together garments.
![Detroit Institute of Arts pays homage to Black cinema](/content/images/size/w960/2023/08/The-Nicholas-Brothers-in-a-scene-from-Stormy-Weather--1943---from-left--Fayard-Nicholas-and-Harold-Nicholas.-Photographic-print--gelatin-silver.-Courtesy-Margaret-Herrick-Library---Twenti.jpg)
Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971 travels to DIA from the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes photographs, costumes, props, posters and contemporary artworks.