Contemporary African art at your door step:

NOT TO BE MISSED: Come and see  the galleries showing contemporary African art  at 1:54 at Pioneers Works in Red Hook in Brooklyn from May 14 to May 17.

The 1:54 team has put together a wonderful series of studio and museum visits and talks that are going to keep me quite busy next week. I have signed up for studio visits of artists: Ghada Amer, Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, and Yashuo Klos ( I bought a work of his a few months ago from a French gallery Anne de Villepoix).  Several museums are also featuring African artists or of African descent. The Studio Museum of Harlem is showing Trenton Doyle Hancock; The Brooklyn Museum, Kehinde Wiley, Basquiat, and Zanele Muholi. The Newark Museum is showing the work of Hassan Hajjaj, and Georges Osodi.  Fortunately my daughter lives right next to the Pioneers works, a wonderful building with amazing views of Manhattan so I now have the perfect excuse to impose myself for dinner at her place.

I encourage you to take the shuttle from downtown Manhattan which will take you right near to the Pioneer building. It is a lovely ride!