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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 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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Oct 28, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez
Wood’s work tickles a polarizing tightrope and imbues a futurist lens that looks at several ways Black femininity takes shape in the American zeitgeist. Above: Qualeasha Wood, This is America, Season 248, Episode 45, 2024, woven jacquard, glass seed beads and machine embroidery, 136 x 186 cm, 53 ½ x 73 ¼ in. Courtesy of the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. © Qualeasha Wood 2024. Photography by Ian Byers-Gamber.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez
Her images show an adaptation to an ancestral language of knowing and experiencing oneself as a part of something greater. Patricia Encarnación is a New York-based Dominican interdisciplinary artist. Her latest exhibition, Tracing the Underside: The Epigenetics of Tropicalization at Nada House on Governors Island uses portraits to blend environmental imagery and nude, resting Afro-Caribbean people to declare self-determination.
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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.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Angela N. Carroll
Above: Vanessa German | BIRD #1, 2022 wood, foam, black pigment, grace, the dream of a human woman who became a bird to tell us that we are all more than human, glass bottles found at the trash dump for the Biltmore— the largest house in America, gold metallic paint, plaster, plaster gauze wood, ribbon, astroturf, love, an open heart. 65 1/2 x 24 x 60 inches (166.4 x 61 x 152.4 cm). Copyright of the artist.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
sugarcanemag.com | Elaine Gonzalez |Angela N. Carroll
Above: Sophie-Ntombikayise by Mary SibandeOn February 18, 2025, the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas will unveil Bold Women, a landmark exhibition spotlighting the innovative yet often underappreciated work of women artists. The exhibit emphasizes the pivotal contributions of artists from diverse backgrounds, with a particular focus on women of color, LGBTQ+ creators, and those navigating intersecting identities.
