adidas announces the June 24 opening of "Honoring Black Excellence (HBE): An Experience" curated by Rog and Bee Walker.First launched in 2019, HBE is adidas' platform for "celebrating Black leaders shaping culture and driving change." According to the press release, the new HBE activation is a "bold and immersive celebration of Black culture, legacy, and creative expression." For those unfamiliar with Rog and Bee, they're the couple and duo behind the storytelling podcast, Paper Monday.As part o...

New York City's Hannah Traore Gallery announces the "Who? Me?" group exhibition.Curated by founder Hannah Traore, the mixed-medium exhibit explores the importance of defining oneself, for themselves. The exclusive press release stated, "Who? Me?" honors the imperative to write one's own myth and memory for those who choose to remain irreducible in the face of cultural erasure and imposed representation. For several of the exhibiting artists, self-portraiture was a first site of art-making and ...

adidas announces the June 24 opening of Honoring Black Excellence (HBE): An Experience curated by Rog and Bee Walker.First launched in 2019, HBE is adidas' platform for "celebrating Black leaders shaping culture and driving change." According to the press release, the new HBE activation is a "bold and immersive celebration of Black culture, legacy, and creative expression." For those unfamiliar with Rog and Bee, they're the couple and duo behind the storytelling podcast, Paper Monday.As part of...

New York's Ward Gallery reopens with an exhibition by artist Dylan Rose Rheingold.Titled "The Blueprint," Rheingold's new exhibit features a series of paintings exploring the qualms of adolescence. Evoking a nostalgic feel, each new painting is brought to life via the artist's surrealist tone and “the use of pastel, glitter glue, and spray in particular,” the press release revealed. The intention here was to take it back to elementary school materials that every NYC kid is familiar with.Bel...