March 2026 BAG
Your curated Black Art Guide for this month. I added Instagram handles for easy following.
Los Angeles
Westside
[NEW] Frieze Art Fair at the Santa Monica Airport (26 Feb-1 Mar)
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-85 at the Getty Center (until 8 Nov)
Midtown/Central LA
[NEW] Lyndon J. Barrois, Sr. (Instagram): Fútbol Is Life: Animated Sportraits at LACMA (15 Feb-12 Jul)
[NEW] Aama Studio (Instagram): Threads of Legacy Film Salon at LACMA (Saturday 21 March only)
[NEW] Tacita Dean (Instagram), Trial of the Finger at Marian Goodman Gallery (21 Feb-25 Apr)
[NEW] (Not black, but worth your time!) Takashi Murakami (Instagram): Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis at Perrotin Los Angeles (14 Feb-14 Mar)
[NEW] Raymond Saunders (Instagram): Notes from LA at David Zwirner (24 Feb-25 Apr)
DTLA
[NEW] The Dance at Cierra Britton Gallery/Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (21 Feb-4 Apr)
[NEW] Christina Quarles (Instagram): The Ground Glows Black at Hauser + Wirth (24 Feb-3 May)
[NEW] (Not black, but worth your time!) Haegue Yang (Instagram): Star-Crossed Rendezvous at MOCA Grand (24 Feb-2 Aug)
South LA
Giving you the best that I got at Art + Practice, 3401 W. 43rd Place Los Angeles, CA 90008 (11 Oct 25-7 Mar)
New York City
Chelsea
[NEW] Kwame Azure Gomez (Instagram): Solo Exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery (5 Mar-18 Apr)
Deborah Roberts (Instagram): Consequences of being at The Flag Art Foundation (12 Feb-25 Apr)
Glenn Ligon (Instagram): Late at night, early in the morning, at noon at Hauser + Wirth* 18th Street (15 Jan-4 Apr)
LES
[NEW] Nuits Balnéaires (Instagram) and François-Xavier Gbré (Instagram) : Latitudes at ICP (29 Jan-4 May)
Midtown
Wifredo Lam (Instagram): When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream at MoMA (Until 11 April)
Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination at the Museum of Modern Art (14 Dec-4 Apr)
Soho
[NEW] Tyler Ballon (Instagram): Flying High at Jeffrey Deitch, 18 Wooster Street (8 Mar-19 Apr)
TriBeCa
[NEW] Ifeyinwa Joy Chiamonwu (Instagram): Manuscripts of Tradition at Jack Shainman Gallery, 346 Broadway, New York, NY (20 Feb-28 Mar)
Queens
Gabrielle Goliath (Instagram): Personal Accounts at PS1 (6 Nov-16 Mar)
Elsewhere
Boston
[NEW} Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now at ICA (12 Feb–2 Aug)
Paris
[NEW] Barkley L. Hendricks: All is Portraiture at Marian Goodman Gallery, 79 Rue du Temple (6 Feb-4 Apr)
Kathia St. Hilaire (Instagram): The Vocals of the Chaotic Burst at Perrotin (10 Jan-7 Mar)
[NEW] Titus Kaphar (Instagram): The Fire This Time at Gagosian Paris (29 Jan-7 Mar)
Media
Jeffrey Gibson (Instagram) discusses his special exhibition, the space in which to place me from the Broad.
Lauren Halsey (Instagram): “Lauren Halsey Follows a Nun’s Rules to Make the Most Out of Her Time in the Studio“ in Cultured Magazine
Deborah Roberts (Instagram): In Conversation: Deborah Roberts and Mara Brock Akil
Upcoming
Have I missed anything? Let me know!
*Indicates I have seen the show and can personally recommend it!
