Seph Rodney

6 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Seph Rodney

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a significant impact on the cultural landscape of the United States. The work is to really dig into and continue to deepen our understanding of what racial healing means.

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Seph Rodney

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a significant impact on the cultural landscape of the United States. This institution, like others of its kind, engages and elevates our collective voice. That has been part of Carlos [Tortolero]’s vision, that we need to be telling our own story. He said, “We need to be here.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Seph Rodney

A critic's pick of galleries from Africa and the Caribbean offer exciting and haunting work. Among the plethora of art fairs this week in New York City, there is still only one dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair was founded in 2013 by Touria El Glaoui, a former telecom salesperson raised in Morocco by an artist father and a French mother, who noticed a gap in the market where local artists were being ignored by the mainstream.

2 weeks ago | artforum.com | Seph Rodney

Curated by Sophie Landres, “Landmines”—a four-person exhibition presenting the work of Dawoud Bey, Christina Fernandez, Richard Mosse, and Rick Silva—identifies particularly large historical targets to blow up or destabilize. Foremost among them is the bicentennial of the 1825 trip up New York’s Hudson River taken by artist Thomas Cole, an excursion widely credited with launching the Hudson River School.

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Seph Rodney

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made a significant impact on the cultural landscape of the United States. Some of my very favorite [teaching] units that I’ve facilitated with artworks have been here at MoCNA, being able to talk about the things that we need to talk about as humans right now: social justice, the environment, identity, stuff that young people are hungry for.