THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART | USA | 8 MAR – 29 JUNE 2025
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART | USA | 8 MAR – 29 JUNE 2025
Featuring 23 contemporary African diasporic artists, The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure celebrates the Black figure from the perspective of Black artists, illuminating the richness, joy, beauty, and complexity of Black life.
The title of the exhibition, The Time Is Always Now, references an essay on desegregation by American writer James Baldwin (1924–1987). Organized around three themes—double consciousness, the persistence of history, and our aliveness—the exhibition showcases works by artists including Michael Armitage, Jordan Casteel, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Amy Sherald.
The exhibition includes two of Arthur Timothy’s artworks which have both been acquired for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection: And the Clamour Became a Voice (“e il clamore è divenuto voce”), 2024 and At The Doors with Stones (“Alle porte coi sassi”), 2024.