The Time is Always Now Special TCGM Event at PMA

The exhibition "The Time is Always Now" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will close on February 9, 2025. TCGM had the opportunity to lead three detours at PMA for this powerful traveling exhibition. We invite you to join us on Tuesday February 4th as we say farewell to this Monumental Colored Girl by Thomas J Paine and the other amazing works featured in this exhibition

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure is currently exhibiting at The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA). This exhibition features 28 Black and African diasporic contemporary artists who use figurative painting, drawing and sculpture to illuminate and celebrate the nuance and richness of Black contemporary life. Through their work, these artists invite us to consider Blackness as a lived experience rather than as a biological fact.

"The Time is Always Now celebrates a period of extraordinary flourishing in the work of artists from the African diaspora,” said the show’s curator, Ekow Eshun. “My hope is that the exhibition encourages audiences to look more closely at the imaginative reach of the exhibiting artists, the ways they are illuminating the richness and complexity of Black life through figuration, and simultaneously asking searching questions about race, identity and history, all while creating artworks that are never less than dazzling."

Host or Publisher The Colored Girls Museum