March 2024

African Diaspora Goods Opens in NYC

Opened Mar 15, 2024 at 176 Spring Street in SoHo, the space Stüssy and Union held before it, which has been framed as a passing of the torch. Denim Tears opened their first flagship store, designed with Theaster Gates.

It doubles as a research library holding 1,500-plus books, catalogues and periodicals on the visual and performative cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa, curated by Lee and Whitney Kaplan of Arcana: Books on the Arts from a collection built over four decades.