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Browse African American News from New York City venues that present African American art, books, comedy, dance, fashion, film, food, music, and theatre.

African American Culture in New York City

Sotheby’s November Art Auctions in Its New Breuer Building Include Basquiat and Kahlo Masterpieces, and Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Which is a Gift Fit for a King

Sotheby's New York Breuer Building (Jjfarq/Dreamstime)

Leonard A. Lauder Collection 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Surrealist Art 🇲🇽
Now & Contemporary Art 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Modern Art 🇧🇷 🇨🇺

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan

Bryant Park Picnic Performances and Movie Nights are Highlights of Summer in New York City

Bryant Park NYC in Summer (Erix2005/Dreamstime)

Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band jazz 🇺🇸
“Carmen” opera film 🇫🇷
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 🇨🇺
Accordion Festival, La Banda Chuska, Santiago Jimenez, Jr., David Wax Museum 🇲🇽 🇵🇪

GARMENT DISTRICT, Manhattan

Harlem Stage Develops Visionary Artists of Color

Harlem Stage (Marc Millman)

When We Dance, The Son Also Rises: Black Men in Dance 🇺🇸
Nova Frontier Film Festival, African Diaspora, Middle Eastern, and Latin American film 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇷 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷

MANHATTANVILLE, West Harlem, Manhattan

Metropolitan Museum of Art Reopens Galleries of African, Indigenous, and Oceanic Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)

Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Reopening, African, Indigenous, Oceanic art 🇧🇯 🇨🇲 🇨🇴 🇨🇩 🇪🇨 🇪🇹 🇬🇦 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇸🇳
Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude, Senegalese contemporary art 🇸🇳
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Black dandy men’s fashion

MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan

National Sawdust

National Sawdust (jelenaaloskina/Adobe)

Winter JazzFest Brooklyn Marathon: jazz 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇮🇳
Composers Now Festival: classical new music 🇨🇺
WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn

Chelsea Factory is a Performance Space for New York City Artists

Chelsea Factory (OneInchPunch/Adobe)

México Now Festival 🇲🇽
La Paloma Prisoner 🇨🇴
Flamenco Vivo 🇪🇸
Soles of Duende 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇪🇸

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a New York Public Library Research Library With Great Community Programs

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)

Visibility & Resistance: Afro-Mexican photography 🇲🇽
Open House 🇺🇸
Liany Matteo with Melvis Santa jazz 🇺🇸 🇨🇺

HARLEM, Manhattan

The Town Hall is a Performing Arts Center at the Crossroads of Culture and History

The Town Hall (courtesy)

“COCO” film with live score by The Sinfonietta and Flor de Toloache 🇲🇽
NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL Ms. Pat, Justin Silva, JB Smoove, Tracy Morgan, Zarna Garg 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇮🇳

MIDTOWN, Manhattan

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Preserves, Promotes, and Presents America’s National Music

National Jazz Museum in Harlem (Afroto/Dreamstime)

Salsa! art and music exhibition 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
John Benitez Quartet, Puerto Rican jazz 🇵🇷
Ivanna Cuesta Quartet, Dominican jazz 🇩🇴
Cocomama, women’s jazz and tap 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇵 🇮🇱 🇲🇽
Brenda Navarette, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
JCFI Music Ensemble, South African jazz 🇿🇦
Melvis Santa and Rafael Monteagudo Duo, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺

HARLEM, Manhattan

Pioneer Works Art and Science Cultural Center in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Pioneer Works (Rawpixel/Adobe)

Le’Andrra LeSeur “Monument Eternal,” African American art 🇺🇸
Alejandro García Contreras “¿Quién no ha intentado convertir una piedra en un recuerdo?,” Mexican art 🇲🇽
Gala

RED HOOK, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum Combines African, Indigenous, Asian, Islamic, and Women’s Art with Community

Brooklyn Museum (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Elizabeth Catlett, African American Mexican artist and activist 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is BK’s Free Outdoor Summer Festival

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! (BRIC Arts Media)

Afropunk Black Music Festival ~ Erykah Badu, Larissa Luz 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇸🇩

LENA HORNE BANDSHELL, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) Promotes African Diaspora Culture

CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (courtesy)

GRANT’S TOMB Afribembé A Great Day in Harlem

“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan

Lehman Center is the Performing Arts Center at Lehman College

Lehman Center (courtesy)

JEROME PARK, The Bronx

Whitney Museum of American Art is Redefining American Art History

Whitney Museum of American Art (Ed Lederman/Whitney)

Whitney Biennial  🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹
Edges of Ailey art of Alvin Ailey 🇺🇸

MEATPACKING DISTRICT, Manhattan

Guggenheim Museum New York is One of the World’s Great Modern Art Collections

Guggenheim Museum New York (Sean Pavone/Dreamstime)

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection ~ the zeitgeist’s impact on art 🇺🇸 🇮🇹
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930 ~ Parisian abstraction’s impact on the arts 🇫🇷 🇵🇹

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan

Radio City Music Hall is The World’s Largest Indoor Theater

Radio City Music Hall (Sean Pavone/Dreamstime)

Silvestre Dangond ‘Ta Malo Colombian vallenato 🇨🇴
Tony Touch “The Piece Maker Concert” Puerto Rican hip hop 🇵🇷
Hombres G 40 Aniversario Spanish pop rock 🇪🇸

ROCKEFELLER CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan

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