ArtServe Welcomes Leading Culture Curator Ludlow Bailey for 30th Anniversary Season
ArtServe, South Florida’s historic arts incubator, recently announced the appointment of Contemporary African Diaspora Art (CADA) Managing Director Ludlow Bailey as consulting curator for its 30th anniversary season. One of the nation’s leading curators of culture as art, Bailey will join ArtServe Curator Sophie Bonet in developing ArtServe’s upcoming artistic season, which celebrates
CADA blog review of Afrofuture.
CADA blog review of Afrofuture. Afrofuture: A pop-up exhibition created in honor of Black History Month and designed to celebrate the rising value of African Diaspora Art in the contemporary art world. The event was sponsored in part by AARP and The Miami Design District. The opening of Afrofuture on February
ICA based, Art historian, Yadira Capaz review of Afrofuture
ICA MIAMI based, Art historian, Yadira Capaz review of Afrofuture Review of “Afrofuture” Exhibition by Yadira Capaz March 2019 The “Afrofuture” exhibition as curated by Ludlow Bailey was a long overdue, missing piece in Miami’s Design District. For a place that stands for the power of design to create the world anew, it
A pictorial review of the 9th Annual Art Basel Panel Discussion on Contemporary African Diaspora Art,Sunday December 9,2018
For an excerpt from the panel, click here. The 9th Annual Art Basel Panel Discussion on Contemporary African Diaspora Art moderated by curator, Ludlow Bailey, convened on Sunday, December 9, 2018, at the Biscayne campus of Florida International University. The global African international panel included, Nigerian performance artist, Jelili Atiku, Jamaican American art
The Black Presence at ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2018
By Ludlow Bailey/November 30, 2018. The 17th edition of one of the greatest commercial art fairs on earth opens on Wednesday, December 3, 2018. The leading players in the art world will descend on Miami to partake in an art carnival that has become the winter diversion of choice for the rich and the
Yemoja Festival
Yeah! The D-Day is here! Yemoja Festival at Brown University. Join us for scared Iwure Odun, procession and veneration of Yemoja by 11:00am at George H. Bass Performing Arts Space, Churchill House, Brown University / Providence River at India Point Park, Fox Point, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
AfriCOBRA: Messages to the People / Opening Celebration
In celebration of Miami Art Week 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) will present a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the founding of AfriCOBRA – the black artist collective that defined the visual aesthetic of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the collective which
Behind Basel: Meet Ashlee Thomas
Ashlee Thomas serves as the President of Miami Urban Contemporary Experience most commonly known as MUCE. MUCE is an arts production company located in Miami. Thomas has served as an arts educator in Los Angeles, Australia, Haiti, Trinidad, Guyana, and the Dominican Republic. In 2013, she co-founded Melbourne Webfest in Australia, serving as the Festival Director. Returning to Miami, she
Urban Philanthropies Throws an Afrofuturist Fete in Overtown During Art Week
Overtown is throwing a party and everyone’s invited. Local nonprofit Urban Philanthropies is opening a new space in the heart of the historic district called the Urban. The 53,000-square-foot public space will host a rich program of ongoing cultural events for the community. The Welcome to the Afrofuture kickoff celebration is inspired by the
