B.A.E. Calendar and Events
2025 | Chicago Art Expo
EXPO CHICAGO returns to historic Navy Pier on April 24–27, 2025 for its twelfth edition. The Galleries section features leading international exhibitors presented alongside one of the highest quality platforms for global contemporary art and culture. Additional sections include: EXPOSURE, featuring solo and two-artist presentations represented by galleries ten years and younger; PROFILE, presenting solo booths and focused projects that showcase ambitious installations and tightly-focused thematic exhibitions; Editions + Books, showcasing limited editions and publications offering a diverse array of print media and object-based practices; and Special Exhibitions, featuring select regional, national, and international non-profit institutions, museums, and organizations.
1-54 Art Fair | Harlem
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is pleased to announce the return of 1-54 New York, taking place from 8–11 May 2025 at Halo, 28 Liberty Street, with a VIP Preview on 8 May
Black Boy Art Show
Celebrate the brilliance of Black male artists at “Black Boy Art Show,” where creativity meets culture. This one-of-a-kind showcase brings diverse artistic expressions, live demos, and powerful stories under one roof.
Art on Paper
Art on Paper, New York City’s celebrated, medium-driven fair, returns to downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 during September 2025’s Armory Art Week with 100 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. The fair’s eleventh edition will showcase unique and powerful projects curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, with a focus on can’t-miss performances highlighting the creative potential of paper.
Atlanta Art Fair
Atlanta Art Fair returns to Pullman Yards this September 25–28, 2025 to build on the expansive momentum of the fair’s inaugural edition. As a continued catalyst for cultural enrichment and artistic exchange, Atlanta Art Fair 2025 will feature an inclusive roster of compelling programs and a diverse collection of innovative events, talks, performances, and installations that work to enhance the city’s existing community of artists, galleries, institutions, and collectors.
Harlem Fine Arts Show
Over 100 Renowned Artists
Curated Art Talks
Red Dot Opening Night Reception
General Admission Hours on Saturday & Sunday from 10AM to 5PM
Book Signings & Exclusive Events
Flight into Egypt
Flight into Egypt Black Artists and Ancient Egypt: 1876-Now
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. In a multisensory exploration of nearly 150 years of artistic and cultural production—from the 19th century to the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the present day—the exhibition includes nearly 200 works of art in a wide range of media.
Thematic sections featuring works from The Met collection and international loans from public and private collections trace subjects including how Black artists and other agents of culture have employed ancient Egyptian imagery to craft a unifying identity, the contributions of Black scholars to the study of ancient Egypt, and the engagement of modern and contemporary Egyptian artists with ancient Egypt.
In a first for The Met, performance will be an integral part of the exhibition itself in the form of a dedicated gallery. Organized in collaboration with MetLiveArts, the “Performance Pyramid” will both present a documentary history of Black performance art incorporating ancient Egyptian themes and host live performances on select days throughout the run of the exhibition.
The exhibition is made possible by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, the Jane and Robert Carroll Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Additional support is provided by The Hayden Family Foundation, Allison and Larry Berg, The Holly Peterson Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The catalogue is made possible by Mellon Foundation and Denise Littlefield Sobel.
Additional support is provided by The Witten Family Foundation, Lonti Ebers, the Jeffrey and Leslie Fischer Family Foundation, and Kent Kelley.
The Performance Pyramid performances are made possible by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky, and the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art.
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52 Walker, Jan 24 | Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon: Evil Nigger
Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon: Evil Nigger
January 24 – March 22, 2025
52 Walker is pleased to announce its fourteenth exhibition, pairing works by experimental composer and musician Julius Eastman (1940–1990) and celebrated New York–based artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960). Titled Evil Nigger after a notable 1979 piano composition by Eastman (who was known to give his works intentionally challenging names), the show is conceived in close partnership with Eastman’s estate.