FacebookTwitterMailThe art world’s annual December pilgrimage to Miami for Art Basel is currently underway. The glamorous mega fair and the more than two dozen satellite fairs that exist in its orbit draw tens of thousands of attendees each year. Some go to schmooze, some go to buy, and everyone arrives ready to party. So who’s invited? Most of Art Basel […]
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This year, for the first time, New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ has a black Marie, the young heroine whose life is charged with magic.
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FacebookTwitterMail“We have five generations of abstract artists represented in this exhibition,” said Alexis Assam, 2018-2019 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow and co-curator of “The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection” just ahead of the exhibition’s opening at Saint Louis Art Museum back in September. A tour led by Assam and exhibition co-curator Gretchen L. Wagner, Andrew W. Mellon […]
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A new exhibit at the de Young on loan from the Tate Modern showcases decades of Black American art.
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FacebookTwitterMailThe Baltimore Museum of Art has announced that in 2020, only artwork created by women will be added to its permanent collection. In a bold move to reduce the gender imbalance in the museum’s collection, every single piece acquired next year, whether through a purchase or donation, will have been created by a woman. Big ideas like this one are […]
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Ashley James, most recently of the Brooklyn Museum, started there this week.
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Englewood visual artist Tonika Lewis Johnson’s “Folded Map Project” connects Chicagoans with corresponding addresses on the North and South sides through photography and conversation. Reset sits down with Johnson to hear the latest on the project and its current expansion to the West Side. Bianca Martin, WBEZ Featured Image Full article @ WBEZ
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The hands of the father and his young daughter wave emphatically: the two are not in agreement. The man talks. His eyes are closed; he looks pained. The child listens, but gazes at a plate of cookies on the dinner table. The scene is not unusual: a father is telling his daughter that she will not be going to an […]
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SEATTLE — A new exhibit chronicling iconic black women debuts Friday at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle. Seattle artist Hiawatha D. calls his new exhibit ‘Iconic Black Women: Ain’t I a Woman’. KOMO News cameras were given a sneak peek inside the gallery before many of the paintings were hung to learn more about how the collection came […]
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Based in 1960s Harlem, they challenged the way stories of black lives were told, and who got to tell them
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