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Realismo Mágico  is an immersive, interdisciplinary event curated by José Parlá, taking over the Fisher Building for one night only. This electrifying evening will bring together visual art, dance, live music, and a DJ set, featuring both emerging and established artists.

Conceived in collaboration with Claudia Hilda, Realismo Mágico celebrates the surreal beauty and layered complexities of Latin American culture and everyday life. Expect a night of dynamic performances and thought-provoking artistic expressions, where movement, sound, and image converge to create an unforgettable experience.

Awol Erizku features prominently in Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, an ambitious and groundbreaking exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, from 15 December 2024 to 30 March 2025. This landmark survey explores the rich tapestry of Pan-African art and visual culture, showcasing 350 objects that span a century, from the 1920s to the present day. Project a Black Planet interrogates Pan-Africanism not as a static or monolithic ideology, but as a dynamic and evolving conceptual framework. It offers artists a fertile space to engage with pressing themes of decolonisation, liberation, and cross-cultural exchange, inviting audiences to contemplate Pan-Africanism as a site of perpetual transformation and possibility.

We are delighted to announce that José Parlá ’s La Habana Sunset (2022), from his series Ciclos: Blooms of Mold, has entered the esteemed Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection as a gift in celebration of the institution’s 200th anniversary.

Currently on view in Brooklyn Abstractions: Four Artists, Four Walls, La Habana Sunset is presented alongside works by Maya Hayuk, Kennedy Yanko, and the late Leon Polk Smith. These four artists, each with profound connections to Brooklyn, reimagine the iconic Beaux-Arts Court through their distinct and visually immersive installations.

Tate Modern's Electric Dreams exhibition celebrates the trailblazing artists who transformed art through science, technology, and new media from the mid-20th century to the digital age. Heinz Mack’s inclusion underscores his pivotal role as a pioneer in optical and kinetic art. His mesmerizing, light-reflective works, often employing industrial materials and mathematical precision, exemplify the era’s radical fusion of art and technology. 

A dizzying retrospective of the celebrated artist’s oeuvre, Extra-Ordinary is now on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art. This captivating exhibition showcases a selection of Vik Muniz's most iconic series, wherein he employs an array of unconventional materials to reimagine seminal images from art history and popular culture. With masterful ingenuity, Muniz transforms chocolate, dust, sugar, tomato sauce, dirt, wire, rubbish, and magazine clippings into intricately composed tableaux. These works invite the viewer to reconsider their visual lexicon, engaging deeply with the mechanics of perception and the ephemeral nature of image-making. Both playful and profound, Muniz's creations deftly navigate the intersection of materiality and meaning, offering a thought-provoking commentary on the artifice inherent in representation itself. 

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now is an evocative new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, featuring the work of Awol Erizku. This exhibition highlights the profound ways Black artists have engaged with Egyptian visual culture, a rich source of inspiration and identity within Erizku’s practice.

“The exhibition takes its title from The Met’s painting Flight into Egypt (1923), an emblem of fugitivity and timeless creativity by the expatriate artist Henry Ossawa Tanner – the first internationally recognized African American painter. – who travelled to Egypt in 1897,” said Akili Tommasino, Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met and the curator of the exhibition. “Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now challenges Eurocentric constructions of ancient Egypt, offering a more expansive history that celebrates the contributions of cultural figures of African descent.”.

Thematic sections featuring works from The Met's collection and international loans from public and private collections trace subjects including how Black artists and other agents of culture have employed ancient Egyptian imagery to craft a unifying identity, the contributions of Black scholars to the study of ancient Egypt, and the engagement of modern and contemporary Egyptian artists with ancient Egypt.

Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to announce José Parlá: Homecoming, now open at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) – marking José Parlá’s first solo exhibition in his hometown. This immersive, two-part exhibition unveils Parlá's experimental process, offering viewers the unique opportunity to witness the creation of a site-specific mural within the gallery space. The second part transforms the space into a dynamic reconstruction of Parlá’s own studio, filled with personal mementoes, Cuban cultural references, and the sounds of his favourite music, providing a window into the artist’s creative world.

Featuring a new series of works, Homecoming showcases Parlá’s signature calligraphic abstractions – vibrant, gestural, and deeply expressive. This process-oriented exhibition celebrates an artist whose practice meaningfully engages with Cuban heritage and the broader diasporic experience, positioning Parlá as a vital voice in contemporary expressionism.

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Duality (Reflection) (2022) by Hank Willis Thomas is currently on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite: Hank Willis Thomas, which has recently been extended until June 2025.

We are proud to have loaned this striking stainless-steel sculpture, which isolates a single charged gesture—an extended arm forming a sign that shifts between victory, peace, and derision. Part of Thomas’s Punctum series, inspired by Roland Barthes, Duality (Reflection) explores the fluidity of meaning through recontextualized imagery.

Presented alongside other works from the series, it invites viewers to reconsider how visual narratives shape perceptions.

Box of cards published on the occasion of the exhibition Candida Höfer: The Order of Beauty Celebrating 20 Years of Candida Höfer at Ben Brown Fine Arts.

José Parlá downright cavorts while he works, tangling sharp, elegant calligraphy across massive mixed-media canvases—which provoke movement themselves. Fortunately, Homecoming, his new show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), features speakers playing Cuban music and hip-hop.

Much more than the photographer behind Beyoncé’s viral pregnancy announcement, the multi-hyphenate artist arrives in Hong Kong with his street hieroglyphics.