The Black Speculative Arts Movement 2025 Carnegie Hall Exhibition
The Black Speculative Arts Movement 2025 Carnegie Hall Exhibition
The Nuevo Muntu and Los Sonidos de la Nueva Atlantida: An Exploration of Afro-Indigenous Sonic Artistry
-curated with Zaika Dos Santos and Reynaldo Anderson, this digital exhibition brings together members of the Black Speculative Arts Movement from Latin America. Reflecting the experience of samba, cumbia, and kawina in North American jazz through the convergence of the history of instruments, musicality, and corporeality, this multidisciplinary collection explores cultural contributions to transtemporal sonic experiences of new worlds.
THE DEMOCRACY PROJECT
This visual exhibition explores the intellectual, social, and cultural impact of the Weimar Republic on the African diaspora; how people of African descent engaged and responded to the era; and the lessons to be learned in dealing with present-day threats to democratic values.
This podcast was inspired by Carnegie Hall’s 2022 citywide Afrofuturism Festival.
BLACK SPECULATIVE ARTS MOVEMENT AND TEMPLE UNIVERSITY IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARNEGIE HALL ANNOUNCES 2024 ARTS FESTIVAL!
BLACK SPECULATIVE ARTS MOVEMENT AND TEMPLE UNIVERSITY IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARNEGIE HALL ANNOUNCES 2024 ARTS FESTIVAL!
Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice
January–May 2024
The centerpiece of Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 season is a powerful exploration of one of the most complex and consequential chapters in modern human history: Germany’s Weimar Republic of 1919–1933. Even with a progressive new constitution and the adoption of democracy, Germany emerged from World War I into a period of overwhelming economic hardship, social inequality and unrest, political polarization, and extremism. These challenges paved the way for the opportunistic rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, ultimately leading to the outbreak of World War II and the horrific devastation and genocide that followed.
Yet despite the turmoil and upheaval of the Weimar period, the arts and culture flourished as artists sought bold and innovative avenues for creative expression and sociopolitical commentary. At the same time, a thriving and decadent nightlife provided desperately needed escapism from the struggles of daily life, becoming an essential part of the social fabric.
Join us on a thought-provoking journey through artistic movements in classical music, jazz, cabaret, opera, art song, and more as we investigate the forces that led to the fall of the Weimar Republic— and the many lessons about the fragility of democracy that can be gleaned from its extraordinary collapse.
Fall of The Weimar Republic, Dancing on the precipice Carnegie Hall 2024 Art Festival
