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“The voice of intelligence… is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”
– Dr. Karl A. Menninger
2025/2026 Global Advisory Board
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Los Angeles, CA
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Chicago, IL/ Los Angeles, CA
Dwight White, MFA
Contemporary Artist
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Paris, France
Monique Y. Wells, VMD, MS
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Harlem, New York City, NY
Contemporary Multimedia Artist, Adjunct Instructor of Photography, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
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London, England, UK and Philadelphia, PA
Oliver St. Clair Franklin CBE
Honorary Consul, British Consulate
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London, England, UK and Philadelphia, PA
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London, UK and Los Angeles, CA
Colman Domingo
Internationally acclaimed actor, director, writer, and producer
Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award–nominated
Instagram:@kingofbingo
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Professor Tommy Curry, PhD
Personal Chair in Africana , Philosophy and Black Male Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Miami, FL
Marlon Johnson
Emmy Award-Winning Film Director and Producer
Marlon Johnson is a twelve-time Emmy Award-winning producer and director and a valued member of The Brothers’ Network Global Advisory Board. A Miami native, he holds dual degrees in Anthropology and Communications (with a Motion Pictures focus) from the University of Miami. His acclaimed documentary work explores music, culture, and social justice — including Coconut Grove: A Sense of Place (on gentrification), Breaking the Silence (on HIV in the Black American South), and Sunday’s Best (on Black women’s church fashion).
Marlon has served as Head of Production for Plum TV, where he earned his first Emmy. He later co-directed Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound, a festival favorite and PBS feature, and Symphony in D, an award-winning look at Detroit through music. In 2016, he received the top South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual Media, recognizing his excellence in visual storytelling.
Titus Kaphar - ‘The Fire This Time’
January 29–March 7, 2026
Rue de Ponthieu, Paris
Gagosian is pleased to announce Titus Kaphar’s first exhibition in Paris, The Fire This Time, opening at the rue de Ponthieu gallery on January 29, 2026. The exhibition features new paintings and hand-carved wood sculptures that extend the artist’s engagement with how history and representation impact collective memory
The exhibition title refers to James Baldwin’s civil-rights-era masterpiece, The Fire Next Time (1963), which charts the author’s struggle with—and ultimate rejection of—the racial politics of America. In relocating to Paris, Baldwin joined a community of American expatriate artists and thinkers, including Miles Davis, Nina Simone, and Richard Wright—figures who refused what Baldwin called “the American madness.” Jesmyn Ward’s anthology The Fire This Time (2017) carries those concerns into contemporary America, more than fifty years later.
Kaphar’s new paintings and sculptures reflect on the symbolic role of the American presidency at a moment when that “madness” is again at center stage. As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—alongside national “No Kings” protests—Kaphar offers a form of homage and redress by foregrounding faces and voices that have long existed in the shadows of power.
Kerry James Marshall,
'Histories' at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Feb 27 - Aug 16, 2026
This exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich is Kerry James Marshall’s largest to date outside the US – and the first major survey of his work in the German-speaking world. It features a comprehensive selection of his most important works, as well as a series of new paintings created specifically for the exhibition.
An exhibition in cooperation with the Royal Academy, London, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
American artist Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955 Birmingham, Alabama, lives in Chicago) is considered one of the most important contemporary painters. His large-format, multifaceted works consistently focus on Black people – in dialogue with the Western tradition of history painting from Giotto to Manet. But where his predecessors left blank spaces, Marshall makes visible what had long remained invisible.
The paintings of Kerry James Marshall – powerful images of the life and history of the African American community, are imbued with colour, pain, hope and vibrancy. They are full of art-historical and socio-cultural references – to everything from the Civil Rights movement to comic and fantasy culture – as well as personal memories. With these diverse motifs, Marshall not only comments on history and social reality but also celebrates diversity, resilience and confidence.
Isidore Quartet
Friday, March 06, 2026 - 7:30 PM
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
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Imani Winds
Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 7:30 PM
American Philosophical Society
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Alain LeRoy Locke is heralded as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro—an anthology of poetry, essays, plays, music and portraiture by white and black artists. Locke is best known as a theorist, critic, and interpreter of African-American literature and art. He was also a creative and systematic philosopher who developed theories of value, pluralism and cultural relativism that informed and were reinforced by his work on aesthetics.
