Rashaad Newsome
Rashaad Newsome | 2019 Art + Technology Lab Grant Recipient
The Art + Technology Lab at LACMA is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2019 Art + Technology grants. Emphasizing iteration and risk-taking over the completion…
Posted 5 years ago | 2 min read
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Rashaad Newsome in ‘Radical Love’ at the Ford Foundation Gallery this Summer
We are pleased to announce that Rashaad Newsome’s #1stPlace (2016) and Look Back At It (2016) will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Radical Love, at the…
Posted 5 years ago | 1 min read
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Rashaad Newsome | Shade Compositions at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, PA
Rashaad Newsome, renowned New York based artist, will make his Pittsburgh debut of Shade Compositions, an ongoing performance project that launched in 2005. Throughout the Fall...
Posted 6 years ago | 1 min read
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New York Live Arts to receive $366K for Rashaad Newsome’s project FIVE
As an ever expanding regional arts organization with a dedication to conceptual rigor, formal experimentation, and active socio-cultural engagement, New York Live Arts is honored…
Posted 6 years ago | 2 min read
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Rashaad Newsome Unveils Video Installation at Westfield World Trade Center
The Brooklyn based artist is showing his "ICON" video art in collaboration with Art Production Fund. For the next month, you can meet Rashaad Newsome...
Posted 6 years ago | 3 min read
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AISH premiers music video directed by Rashaad Newsome on Tidal
Aish, the Rising San Franciscan artist, is touted one of the more experimental and engaging pop artists around and TIDAL is fortunate to premiere the…
Posted 6 years ago | 2 min read
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Layering Time: On Rashaad Newsome by Emmanuel Iduma for Bomb Magazine
Rashaad Newsome, Running, 2017. Park Avenue Armory. Photo © Da Ping Luo. Photo courtesy Rashaad Newsome Studio. At the beginning of November I attended the…
Posted 6 years ago | 3 min read
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McNay Art Museum announces major acquisitions of African American art
SAN ANTONIO, TX. - Richard Aste, Director of the McNay Art Museum, announced today the acquisition of three major works – all collages -- by three African...
Posted 6 years ago | 3 min read
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Elements of Vogue opens in Madrid, featuring an immersive video installation by Rashaad Newsome
ELEMENTS OF VOGUE A CASE STUDY IN RADICAL PERFORMANCE 17 NOVEMBER 2017 – 6 MAY 2018 CURATED BY: SABEL GAVALDÓN & MANUEL SEGADE Bodies are both...
Posted 6 years ago | 4 min read
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Hyperallergic | Rashaad Newsome’s “Running,” Reaching for Transcendence with Voice and Light
Image above: Rashaad Newsome, “Running” (2017) Park Avenue Armory (all photos by Da Ping Luo and ©Da Ping Luo) In Rashaad Newsome’s “Running,” a vocal...
Posted 6 years ago | 2 min read
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Rashaad Newsome announced as part of CTM 2018 first acts
This January CTM Berlin Festival returns and De Buck Gallery is proud to announce that Rashaad Newsome will be participating with his electric FIVE performance....
Posted 6 years ago | 1 min read
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Rashaad Newsome’s new performance piece “RUNNING” premiers at Park Avenue Armory
Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power and...
Posted 6 years ago | 1 min read
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The McNay | Rashaad Newsome: KNOT
On view at the McNay from August 8, 2017 to January 5, 2018 Combining baroque grandeur, hip-hop swagger, and black and LGBTQ subcultures, Rashaad Newsome...
Posted 7 years ago | 1 min read
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DLECTRICITY 2017 | Rashaad Newsome
De Buck Gallery is pleased to announce Rashaad Newsome is named Artist-in-Residence for the 2017 DLECTRICITY festival to be held in Detroit September 22-23, 2017....
Posted 7 years ago | 2 min read
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MMoCA | Rashaad Newsome: ICON
August 11, 2017 to December 3, 2017 Rashaad Newsome is a New York based artist whose multidisciplinary practice combines collage, video, music, computer programming, and performance....
Posted 7 years ago | 1 min read
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Rashaad Newsome prints at Art on Paper fair 2017
During this year’s edition of the Art on Paper fair in New York, Tamarind Institute will premier a suite of new Rashaad Newsome lithographs. The suite includes five distinct prints...
Posted 7 years ago | 1 min read
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Rashaad Newsome: Mélange Exhibition | CAC New Orleans
New Orleans-born artist Rashaad Newsome returns for this interdisciplinary presentation of Mélange, figuring a series of films and works on paper in conversation with Newsome's upcoming performance of FIVE. Together,...
Posted 7 years ago | 1 min read
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TAKE FIVE IN ST. CROIX | A Survey of Race, Identity, Gender and Power in the United States Virgin Islands
DEC. 4–8TH, 2016 Take Five Art Exhibition and Education Series features visual and performance works by Rashaad Newsome, Oceana James, Kharis Kennedy, La Vaughn Belle...
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Rashaad Newsome on Daata Editions and at Expo Chicago
Daata Editions will launch new video artworks by Rashaad Newsome for the platform at EXPO Chicago, Sept 22 – 25 2016. Rashaad’s works will be presented at…
Posted 8 years ago | 1 min read
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Rashaad Newsome in group exhibition “Face to Face” at Hilliard museum
FACE TO FACE: A Survey of Contemporary Portraiture by Louisiana Artists Curated by Jane Hart Face to Face features work by twelve nationally and…
Posted 8 years ago | 1 min read
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Artnet News | Rashaad Newsome in Swizz Beat’s NO COMMISSION Art Fair
Swizz Beatz’s Bronx Art Fair Will Show the World Where Hip Hop Started His new art fair lets artists collect all the proceeds. Swizz Beatz….
Posted 8 years ago | 2 min read
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SAMA’s Next Art History 201 Features Groundbreaking Artist Rashaad Newsome
Continuing it’s increasingly wonderful talks series Art History 201, in which visiting contemporary artists discuss the place of their work in the history of art,…
Posted 8 years ago | 4 min read
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Artsy | Blackness, Bling, and Beauty: Voguing in New York with Rashaad Newsome’s Wild Collages
Rashaad Newsome is having a moment. The New Orleans–born artist—a prolific creator of performance art, videos, music, and collages—has long engaged with issues surrounding gender,…
Posted 8 years ago | 2 min read
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Rashaad Newsome | Art Forum Critic’s Pick
“Stop Playing in My Face!”—the title of both Rashaad Newsome’s show and its mesmerizing queer Afrofuturist video centerpiece—is taken from a rebuke/mantra invented by Samantha James…
Posted 8 years ago | 1 min read
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The Creator’s Project | Stop Playing in Rashaad Newsome’s Face | Studio Visits
Grills, tricked out cars, and leather battle armor is what first comes to mind when imagining 36-year-old artist and and LGBTQ icon Rashaad Newsome. This…
Posted 8 years ago | 5 min read
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W | Checking In With Rashaad Newsome, the Artist Bringing Harlem’s Vogue Scene to Chelsea
The New Orleans-born artist’s new solo show at the De Buck Gallery is rife with with personal history, and style. What is your work about? It’s…
Posted 8 years ago | 4 min read
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Rashaad Newsome | The Artist Vogueing (and Collaging, and XBoxing) Across America
T | The New York Times Style Magazine On the eve of his opening at the Studio Museum in Harlem — one among many milestones...
Posted 8 years ago | 4 min read
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i-D | rashaad newsome’s explosive mash-up of post-feminism and the mainstreaming of vogue
The artist, composer, and ballroom community superstar walks us through his Brooklyn studio as he prepares for two new exhibitions. Rashaad Newsome only moved into…
Posted 8 years ago | 7 min read
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Rashaad Newsome on practice and influence
Walking through Rashaad Newsome’s studio would reveal the following panoply: cutouts of scantily clad bodies from magazines, prints of designer patterns from high fashion, research…
Posted 8 years ago | 5 min read
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THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE | Studio Museum Harlem
Rashaad Newsome: THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE spotlights multimedia artist Rashaad Newsome’s work about the dance form known as Vogue. For over a…
Posted 8 years ago | 1 min read