This momentous LACMA exhibition referred to as for a gaggle portrait — to the tune of Roberta Flack

This particular group portrait in commemoration of LACMA’s momentous exhibition “Imagining Black Diasporas” will likely be printed in Picture’s forthcoming April problem. Scroll by means of for a customized curator’s observe and preview of the artworks on view.

Artists gathered at LACMA for a portrait commemorating their inclusion in “Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics,” on view by means of July 27. Throughout the picture shoot, there was a particular request to hearken to Roberta Flack (the singer had died two days earlier). The whole group sang alongside as “Killing Me Softly With His Song” echoed by means of the galleries.

The exhibition introduces 42 new acquisitions for LACMA as a part of the museum’s ongoing work to increase its program and assortment of artwork by African-descendant artists. It’s been an honor to deliver this exhibition to life with the work of 60 multigenerational artists primarily based around the globe. On the opening, artists caught up and met for the primary time, probably creating new diasporic networks of alternate and connectivity.

—Dhyandra Lawson, Andy Track affiliate curator of Modern Artwork on the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork

Arielle Bobb-Willis

Arielle Bobb-Willis, “New Jersey,” 2019.

(Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA; Bought with funds offered by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund)

Helina Metaferia

Helina Metaferia, “Headdress XVIII,” 2021.

(Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA; Promised reward of Mark Dinner and Nana Quagraine)

Edgar Arceneaux

Edgar Arceneaux, “Blocking Out The Sun,” 2004, set up {photograph}.

(Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA)

John Outterbridge

John Outterbridge, “Asafetida Yoke,” 2008.

(Museum Associates / LACMA; Courtesy of the Property of John Outterbridge; Bought with funds offered by the Pasadena Artwork Alliance)

John Outterbridge

Michael Queenland, Untitled 1-9, 2005.

(Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA; Bought with funds offered by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund)

Patrice Cullors

Patrisse Cullors, “Oturupon Meji,” 2023.

(Yubo Dong of photostudio; Courtesy of the artist, Charlie James Gallery Los Angeles, and Museum Associates / LACMA; reward of Charlie James Gallery)

Kambui Olujimi

Kambui Olujimi, “In Your Absence The Skies Are All The Same,” 2014, digital picture

(Courtesy of the artist, Museum Associates / LACMA; Bought with funds from the Ralph M. Parsons Fund)

Sandra Brewster

Sandra Brewster, “Blur,” 2020.

(Courtesy of the artist and Olga Korper Gallery; Museum Associates / LACMA; bought with funds offered by Modern @ LACMA, 2022)

Tariku Shiferaw

Tariku Shiferaw, “Water No Get Enemy (Fela Kuti),” 2019.

(Courtesy of the artist, Addis Tremendous Artwork & Galerie Lelong & Co., Museum Associates / LACMA; Mark Dinner and Nana Quagrine, New York, Brooklyn)

Martine Syms

Martine Syms, “Vertical Horizontal Extended, Vertical Elevated Oblique, A Thread Or Line That Holds Things Together,” 2015.

(Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA; bought with funds offered by AHAN: Studio Discussion board, 2016 Artwork Right here and Now buy)

Awol Erizku

Awol Erizku, “Ramadan Drawing April 1 – May 1,” 2022.

(Brica Wilcox; Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA; bought with funds offered by The Buddy Taub Basis, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Administrators)

Samuel de Saboia

Samuel de Saboia, “Self Generated Magic Organic Freedom,” 2024.

(Gene Ogami; Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA)

Widline Cadet

Widline Cadet, “Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1),” 2019.

(Widline Cadet; Courtesy of the artist and Museum Associates / LACMA; reward of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez)

Set up {photograph}, “Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics,” Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, December 15, 2024–July 27, 2025.

(Museum Associates / LACMA)