THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | USA | 9 NOV – 9 FEB 2025
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | USA | 9 NOV – 9 FEB 2025
This exhibition features 28 Black and African diasporic contemporary artists who use figurative painting, drawing and sculpture to illuminate and celebrate the nuance and richness of Black contemporary life.
Curated by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, The Time Is Always Now takes its title from an essay on desegregation by American writer and social rights activist James Baldwin. It highlights a sense of urgency around contemporary artistic expression, while acting as a reminder that Black artists exist within an always-evolving artistic lineage.
The exhibition includes two of Arthur Timothy’s artworks which have both been acquired for the PMA’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.
GALLERY 1957 | ACCRA | 26 OCT – 11 JAN 2025
Keeping Time is a group exhibition, curated by Ekow Eshun and Karon Hepburn, which significantly brings together international and Ghana-based artists from the African diaspora who explore notions of Blackness, being and time.
The show introduces artists who are exhibiting with Gallery 1957 for the first time, such as Okiki Akinfe, ruby onyinyechi amanze, Alvaro Barrington, Winston Branch, Kenwyn Crichlow, Kimathi Donkor, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Lyle Ashton Harris, Andrew Pierre Hart, Che Lovelace, Sola Olulode, Sikelela Owen, Ravelle Pillay, Elias Sime, Lina Iris Viktor and Michaela Yearwood-Dan, as well as returning artists Gideon Appah, Rita Mawuena Benissan, Amoako Boafo, Phoebe Boswell, Godfried Donkor, Modupeola Fadugba, Julianknxx, Arthur Timothy, and Alberta Whittle.
The exhibition includes the artworks Ode to Joy, 2024 and Ode to Love, 2024.