Opening hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- Closed
- Friday
- Closed
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
What’s on
The week’s programme
Events
6 events
FreeEvent
Collective Rest Experience with Tricia Hersey
Fri, 28 Aug
Presented by The Nap Ministry and The NYU Center for Black Visual Culture. Tea provided by Brooklyn Tea and live sound bath by ArinMaya.
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Dejha Carrington Artist-Scholar in Residence Welcome Reception
Wed, 16 Sept
Join the Center for Black Visual Culture as we welcome Dejha Carrington, CBVC's 2026-27 Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, for a celebratory reception marking the start of her fellowship. Carrington is an arts leader and co-founder of Commissioner, a collaborative model and social practice that brings locals together to support contemporary artists and collect art in their cities. Come welcome Dejha to CBVC as she begins a residency dedicated to storytelling, process, and meaning-making in the arts.
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Caught in the Act: Desire, Womanhood, and the “Good Woman” in Nollywood
Wed, 23 Sept
Join NYU's Center for Black Visual Culture for a screening of the 2008 Nollywood film Caught in the Act, directed by Charles Inojie and co-presented by Nolly Babes. The screening will be followed by a conversation featuring current doctoral scholars whose work engages questions of gender, identity, and visual culture. The panel will consider how Nollywood has represented women's desire and agency, cultural expectations attached to the figure of the good woman, and how African filmmakers use popular cinema to negotiate and challenge ideas of respectability.
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Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Built Environment
Mon, 28 Sept
Black Portraiture: Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment will examine the historicity and rich panoply encompassing the Black built environment, both physical and imagined. The convening explores the concept and its relationship to photography, architecture, urban planning, and visual culture, including artistic contributions to forms of memory, visual legacies of Black townships, and conceived spaces within the African diaspora.
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Holding Lightning The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston
Fri, 2 Oct
The Center for Black Visual Culture welcomes author and cultural critic Emily Lordi for a talk and signing of her new biography, Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston, in conversation with ethnomusicologist Dr. Fredara Hadley. The event places Whitney Houston's life and legacy within the larger history of Black celebrity.
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Where is the Care?
Tue, 20 Oct
In an art world characterized by transactional relationships, Dejha Carrington and Damien Davis will explore the processes through which care is rendered, interrogating the barriers and pathways that lead to a more interconnected and compassionate art environment. The conversation explores structural frameworks fostering genuine support during complicated times.
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The Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs explores Black art, history, and visual culture through exhibitions, talks, artist and scholar residencies, podcasts, and community-centered projects like The Black Rest Project.
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