August 18, 2017August 20, 2017 Kara Walker’s Next Act | Vulture After the success of her sugar sphinx, the artist is a whole different kind of public figure — and figuring out a whole new approach to public art. African American Art, Black Love, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 LeVar Burton Is Being Sued by a Public Broadcasting Station Over Reading Rainbow | The Root In today’s episode of Black People Can’t Have a Damn Thing, Not Even if We Played a Major Role in Building It From the Ground Up, actor LeVar Burton is being personally sued by a Buffalo, N.Y., public broadcasting station that wants to stop him from using a Reading Rainbow catchphrase on his new podcast. African American Art, African American Education, African American Entrepreneurs, African American News, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 Raphael Saadiq Is the Most Underappreciated R&B Artist of All Time. Yeah, I Said It | VSB The Root When was the last time you had a conversation about great artists and Raphael Saadiq’s name came up? African American Art, African American Entertainment, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, R&B, Soul Music
August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 In an Unused Harlem Church, a Towering Work of a ‘Genius’ | The New York Times Julie Mehretu, a MacArthur Foundation “genius,” is executing a monumental new commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. African American Art, African Art, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 11, 2017August 11, 2017 Ailey Extension Dance Classes: Release your inner dancer | New York Amsterdam News Have you ever sat in the audience at an Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance during the magnificent dance company’s summer and winter seasons and thought wistfully, “I would love to try to do at least some of that!” African American Art, African American Culture, African American Music, African American Theater, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines | The New York Times NEW HAVEN — “I never listen to music passively,” the musician and composer Tyshawn Sorey said recently, nestled in an easy chair at his home studio here. African American Art, African American Music, Jazz Music, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World | Hyperallergic We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985. African American Art, African American History, Black Art, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 5, 2017August 7, 2017 In Harlem, a New Triennial Parses the Historical, Political, and Social Context of “Uptown” | Hyperallergic The inaugural show at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery spotlights 25 artists living or practicing north of 99th Street. African American Art, African American Culture, Black Art, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward | Artsy “We are living in a time that’s ripe with debate over what it means to be a human in one kind of body or another,” says Emily Mae Smith. African American Art, Black Art, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 Misty Copeland Becomes a Face of Estée Lauder, and Ballet Takes Note | The New York Times Supermodels and actresses have generally been the ones to land high-profile, lucrative modeling contracts to promote major cosmetics companies. Enter the ballerina. African American Art, Ballet, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
