Studio Magazine

Studio magazine is a leading art publication with a focus on contemporary artists of African descent. In its second decade, Studio continues to celebrate artists and inform audiences through thought-provoking essays, insightful conversations,
and more.

New Additions: Jadé Fadojutimi

New Additions is a series of interviews with artists whose work was newly acquired in the Studio Museum's permanent collection. This conversation features artist Jadé Fadojutimi in discussion of her work There Exists a Glorious World. Its Name? The Land of Sustainable Burdens. You can read or listen to the conversation below. 

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Artist in Residence View All

Wherever my people is at, that’s where my studio is <3

2021–22 artist in residence Cameron Granger discusses community, architecture, and memory. 

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Ideal Selfie

2021–22 artist in residence Qualeasha Wood discusses textiles, the haven of the internet, and iconographies of the self. 

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See for Yourself

2021–22 artist in residence Jacob Mason-Macklin on Harlem light, looking closely, and "grace in existing as you are."

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Permanent Collection View All

Possessions: Sadie Barnette and Leslie Hewitt

Jordan Jones writes about Leslie Hewitt’s series “Riffs on Real Time” and Sadie Barnette’s series of untitled drawings, which are held in the Museum's permanent collection, as a way to think about the word "possession."

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New Additions: Jadé Fadojutimi

New Additions is a series of interviews with artists whose work was newly acquired in the Studio Museum's permanent collection. This conversation features artist Jadé Fadojutimi in discussion of her work There Exists a Glorious World. Its Name? The Land of Sustainable Burdens. You can read or listen to the conversation below. 

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Diaspora

Scattered by migrations, voluntary and not, global Black populations have long contended with efforts to write them out of history.

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Collecting a Legacy: New Acquisitions

Fifty years after its founding, the Studio Museum remains at the forefront of institutions for artists of African descent, providing a haven for artists to create and see their work in, and be insp

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Conversations & Interviews View All

New Additions: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

New Additions is a series of interviews with artists whose work was newly acquired in the Studio Museum's permanent collection. This inaugural conversation features artist Tun

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In Conversation: William T. Williams, Melvin Edwards, Ashley James, and Guy Ciarcia

Read an exclusive excerpt from the publication Smokehouse Associates, in which the artist collective speaks with curator Ashley James.

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Can Jam Be Jam at MoMA?

Read an exclusive excerpt from the exhibition catalogue Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces about the desire to create a Black cultural "home."
 

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Invisible to Whom? View All

Invisible to Whom?:
Poetic Responses to Invisible Man
Soldier in Crisis

In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Cave Canem commissi

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Invisible to Whom?:
Poetic Responses to Invisible Man
Trans Study: Invisible Man (2003)

In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Cave Canem commissi

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