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As we head into the depths of fall, welcome to November 2024’s In Case You Missed it (ICYMI) Newsletter: Long Gallery Harlem’s portal into the genius of African diasporic makers and creators.
This month’s newsletter features a recap of LGH’s unveiling of a new Josephine Baker portrait by artist Jas Knight, our Top Picks from around the country, fall events, and more. For our full list of what’s on and upcoming, check out our website. |
| | | The Unveiling of “Josephine” by Jas Knight |
|  | Jas Knight, Josephine, 2024, oil on canvas, 65 x 55 in. |
| Long Gallery Harlem commissioned artist Jas Knight to create a portrait for the Josephine Baker ballroom in the Ambassador’s residence of the American Embassy in Paris. Along with the portrait, poet John White composed an original poem to mark the life and legacy of Ms. Baker. The unveiling of the portrait took place on October 9th, 2024 with Baker’s children; Jas Knight & John White; French ambassador to the United States, Denise Campbell Bauer; Long Gallery staff; and special guests in attendance. Head to our website for limited-edition prints of the portrait and more information about the monumental unveiling. |
| | | Watch poet John White recite Josephine |
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|  | From left to right: Gallery owner Lewis Long, Ambassador Denise Campbell Bauer, and owner of Harlem Candle Company Terri Johnson at the unveiling of “Josephine” |
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| A Big Thank You to Harlem Candle Company! |
| The gallery was delighted to have fellow Harlemite Terri Johnson, owner of Harlem Candle Company, join us at the unveiling. Ms. Johnson graciously provided our distinguished guests with Josephine Baker inspired products including her signature Baker inspired perfume “Josephine.” Click below to check out Harlem Candle Company and their array of luxury home fragrances and products inspired by the Harlem Renaissance. |
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| In the LGH Window: Alioune Lune Diagne |
| Long Gallery Harlem is pleased to present new work by Alioune Lune Diagne. Diagne created Love & Hate, 2024 while living in Harlem and completing his residency at Villa Albertine. |
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|  | Alioune Lune Diagne, Love & Hate, 2024. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 5.25 ft x 7 ft, 160 cm x 215 cm. |
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| | | | Our Top Picks Exhibitions, news, and events you cannot miss. |
| | | Lorna Simpson: Earth and Sky Through January 11, 2025 Hauser and Wirth, 22nd Street gallery New York City
"A suite of large-scale paintings of meteorites, inspired by photographs found in an early 20th century natural history textbook, will create a temple-like atmosphere of contemplation in which human scale and geological time are unmoored. These canvases will be accompanied by a new text-based wall sculpture that references an incredible story from the same book, wherein a named, and then unnamed, Black farmer is surprised when a meteorite lands right at his feet. Simpson’s new works reimagine traditional notions of ancient celestial objects and phenomena, prompting viewers to reflect on the vastness of the cosmos and our place within its grand narrative." |
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| | Studio Museum in Harlem Receives $10M From Ford Foundation From Hyperallergic October 28, 2024 By Rhea Nayyar
“A year out from its fall 2025 reopening, the Studio Museum in Harlem has received a $10 million grant from the Ford Foundation to endow its director and chief curator role, currently held by Thelma Golden in the last 19 years. Ford Foundation President Darren Walker delivered the news during the Studio Museum’s annual gala on Monday evening, October 28.”
The gallery would also like to congratulate artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, the 2024 Joyce Alexander Wein Prize recipient. Click here to learn more about Odutola and her narrative, multimedia illustrations, or here to learn more about the honor. |
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| | Outtara Watts: ‘90s Paintings Through December 21, 2024 Karma Gallery, East Village New York City
"Over the course of nearly four decades and across three continents, Abidjan-born, New York–based artist Ouattara Watts has developed a painting practice that places cosmograms, numerals, cloth, and other symbols and relics from around the world into relation with each other, leveling hierarchies and creating new relations in the process. Alongside traditional media like acrylic and gouache, the artist embeds materials from a kaleidoscopic range of sources in his monumental, densely layered canvases: papier-mâché, fallen leaves, textiles gleaned from flea markets, and photographic reproductions, among others." |
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| | JJJJJEROME ELLIS: Aster of Ceremonies November 7, 2024 @ 7:00 PM The Kitchen New York City
"At The Kitchen at Westbeth, Ellis presents portions of their latest project Aster of Ceremonies (2022) in the form of a two-hour improvisational composition using spoken word, projected text, and live music. Aster of Ceremonies considers what rites we need now and how poetry, astir in the asters, can help them along. What is the relationship between fleeing and feeling? How can the voices of those who came before—and the stutters that leaven those voices—carry into our present moment, mingling with our own?” |
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| | Alteronce Gumby: Prince of the Far Rainbow Through December 14, 2024 Nicola Vassell Gallery New York City
“Nicola Vassell is pleased to present Prince of the Far Rainbow, an exhibition of new work by Alteronce Gumby that continues his rigorous exploration of color and the way it shapes our experience of the world around us. The exhibition features a suite of new abstract paintings, including new iterations of his ‘moonwalker’ compositions, along with works on paper and the introduction of new ‘rainbow’ and ‘falling rainbow’ paintings, all of which are born from and expand upon the last two years Gumby spent researching the material depths of color.” |
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| | Mickalene Thomas: All About Love Through January 12, 2025 The Barnes Foundation Philadelphia, PA
"The Barnes presentation of All About Love showcases a selection of vivid artworks—paintings, collage, photography, video, and site-specific installation—that celebrates Thomas’s distinctive artistic practice from the late 2000s to the present day. Her work is characterized by spectacularly staged, rhinestoned, large-scale painted tableaux and bold, intimate compositions, decisively foregrounding Black femininity in abundant realms of visual pleasure, agency, and kinship.Whether in imaginative dialogue with canonical works from the history of art or playfully reckoning with popular culture, Thomas’s exuberant portraits offer an empowered vision of beauty and desire, formulated through a sensual, Black feminist lens." |
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| | | Ron Norsworthy: I, Narcissus Nov. 14 - Dec. 21, 2024 Edwynn Houk Gallery New York
“Centered around Norsworthy’s long standing interest in spatial poetics, narrative and allegory, these eleven works provide an extended reflection on both the personal experience and social construction of beauty, while also reconsidering narcissism as a virtue of self-love. Expressed through Norsworthy’s distinctive process of creating digital collages and then translating them into three-dimensional form—what he calls paintings—the works oscillate between their photographic illusion and the transparency of their making.” |
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| | Irving Penn: Kinship Nov. 15 - Dec. 21, 2024 Pace Gallery New York City
“Pace presents Irving Penn: Kinship, curated by artist Hank Willis Thomas, at its 508 West 25th Street gallery in New York. Often investigating the ways that framing and perspective can shape our experiences of the world around us, Thomas will situate Penn’s photographs within a bespoke, star-shaped structure with intersecting corners, created using a material similar to the plywood flats of the photographer’s original studio for his portraits in a corner. Displayed on the structure’s exterior walls and within its central interior space, Penn’s images will invite viewers to inhabit a similarly intimate, enclosed space as the subjects of his portraits captured across the globe—through Thomas’s vision, this room becomes a new world of its own.” |
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| | Whether you’re an experienced collector or aspiring member of the community, we would love to learn more about you so that we can best cater our services and programming to your art goals and interests. Click below to fill out a brief, three-minute survey, to become a member of the Art Collectors Pass community. |
| | | More To See Exhibitions through this month and beyond. |
| | For our complete list of picks from cities around the country, check out our website: |
| | | | | | | | Josephine, 2024 Jas Knight (b. 1977) |
| | Limited quantities available, reservations will be filled in order of receipt. Various sizes available; master reproduction available upon request to gallery.
A portion of print sales will support the Josephine Baker Portrait Project. |
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| | Interested in hosting an event at Long Gallery Harlem? Located in the heart of Harlem NYC, the gallery serves as a creative forum and flexible event space for a range of unique experiences — including galas, receptions, film and video shoots, screenings, dinners, meetings, and more. In addition to exhibitions and programing, the gallery offers a suite of comprehensive services, including collections management, private sales, strategic deaccession, and more. |
| | | Coming Soon What’s on our radar and coming soon to Harlem, greater NYC, and the country. |
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November 5, 2024 – December 7, 2024 “EndGame” at WhiteBox Gallery, NY November 14, 2024 – December 21, 2024 “Ron Norsworthy: I, Narcissus” at Edwynn Houk Gallery November 15, 2024 – December 1, 2024 “Irving Penn: Kinship” at Pace Gallery, NY OPENS November 20,“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy” at The Shed November 20, 2024 - March 23, 2025 “Samantha Box: Confluences” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts November 23 – January 18, 2025 “Mario Joyce: Spirit, Spirit” at Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles
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