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Jan 13, 2025 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Angela N. Carroll |Chenoa Baker
For its 9th annual event, the non-profit GroundUP Music Foundation continues one tradition and starts another with its first-ever edition of “GroundUP Miami Beach: Family Dinner Weekend,” featuring Snarky Puppy and a lineup of legendary guest artists set to take the stage at the iconic Miami Beach Bandshell on February 8-9, 2025.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Angela N. Carroll |Chenoa Baker
Above: Rashid Johnson | Seascape Reflections in Blue. The Norton Museum of Art’s forty-ninth annual Gala will honor contemporary artist Rashid Johnson and celebrate the dynamic boxing-focused exhibition Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing. Taking place February 1, 2025, the evening will feature cocktails, dinner, dancing, and a live auction hosted in partnership with Sotheby’s and hosted by EVP | Chairman, Europe Oliver Barker.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Angela N. Carroll
Above: Modern Ancient Brown. Photo by Katie Greenstone. “You ever been to Detroit?” my Uber driver, a retired teacher and world traveler, asks me, his eyes peering kindly into the rearview to meet my wandering gaze, scanning the architecture and landscape from the airport to my downtown hotel. “Nah, it’s my first time here,” I respond. “Well, welcome to my city,” he smiled.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Melissa Davis |Angela N. Carroll
Above: Alvin C. Hollingsworth (American, 1928–2000). Paris Blues, 1993–94. Painting on board. Collection of the Hudson River Museum. Gift of Marjorie HollingsworthMitchell, 2021 (2021.13.6)The Hudson River Museum is set to unveil a groundbreaking exhibition, Alvin C. Hollingsworth: And All That Jazz, showcasing the work of one of America’s most versatile and dynamic Black artists.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Melissa Davis |Angela N. Carroll
Above: Calida Rawles, Impact, 2024 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 72 inches
152.4 x 182.9 cmPhoto by Marten Elder. Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin. It may not feel like a celebration, but Art Week Miami 2024 is here. And if it’s Art Week, then you know it is time for your guide to Black art during this fair in Miami. Across the nation, pocketbooks are strained, inflation is up, and spending has slowed down. And while spending is down, that doesn’t mean that smart spending has been eliminated.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Angela N. Carroll |Melissa Davis
Above: Steffani Jemison , WLD (content aware), 2018 UV curable inkjet print on glass, acrylic, paper, polyester film10 x 21 1/2 in.Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. We are a generation that consumes more media than any previous generation but is less equipped to decipher the barrage of content that we receive.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Angela N. Carroll
What power do our collective and individual choices have on the destruction or elevation of our humble human experience? The latest solo exhibition from the visual artist VILLAGER (born AbdulRasheed Adekunle Esuwapelumi Adaranijo in Nigeria), contemplates this existential question and others through a vibrant series of divinely informed portrait paintings. On view Oct. 10 through Dec.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Angela N. Carroll
In a significant move, Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture has named Tuliza Sindi, a South African architect and educator, as its new Curator for Public Programs and Director of Publications. This appointment follows an international search to fill the pivotal role aimed at shaping the future of the school’s public discourse and academic publishing. Sindi brings a wealth of experience from her time as a researcher, practitioner, and educator.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Angela N. Carroll
Above: From left to right, Arthur Francietta, Claudia Claremi, Emilie Boone. The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has unveiled the recipients of the prestigious fifth cycle of its Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) Fellowship, a program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The CCI aims to deepen the study of Caribbean art while fostering cross-regional collaboration and exchange. The selection process was led by a distinguished panel, including Iberia Pérez González, PAMM’s Andrew W.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Angela N. Carroll
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its 2025 spring exhibition for The Costume Institute, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, opening May 10, 2025, at The Met Fifth Avenue. Drawing from Monica L. Miller’s acclaimed 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, the exhibition will chronicle the evolution of Black dandyism, tracing its origins from 18th-century Enlightenment Europe to modern-day expressions in London, New York, and Paris.
