Kerry James Marshall, whose highly anticipated retrospective, “Mastry,” opens Oct. 25 at the Met Breuer, is steeped in classical training more thoroughly than almost any painter of his generation.
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A Pioneering African-American Art Force Changes Houston and Museums Everywhere: Why Isn’t She Better Known?
Alvia Wardlaw, a Wellesley grad and UT’s First African-American Phd In Art History, and is Director of the University Museum at TSU. Why is she still one of America’s most under-known Curators?
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The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam
“I am outlandishly famous,” Sam Gilliam says on a recent afternoon as he walks across his sunlit studio in the District’s Brightwood Park.
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The Rise of Civil Rights Tourism in America’s Deep South
Over the past three years, new and newly revamped civil rights museums have appeared across the Deep South, proving to be popular tourist attractions and economic engines.
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Art City: Della Wells connects generations of Black Artists
“It never occurred to me that anyone besides white men made art,” says Wells, now a nationally recognized artist who was recently named one of two artists of the year by the City of Milwaukee along with poet Dasha Kelly.
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‘Picturing Children’ Shows More Than A Century Of African-American Childhoods
[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY All Things Considered | PUBLISHER NPR After more than a decade in the making, the Smithsonian’s newest museum is scheduled to open this fall. The National Museum of African American History and Culture will open to the public after a dedication ceremony Sept. 24.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]As a part of […]
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With African-American art hot, Newark Museum showcases ‘Modern Heroics’
There are all sorts of reasons why African-American art is the hottest thing on the market today, for both private collectors and museums, but the most compelling, of course, is the need to catch up.
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Teju Cole talks to Taiye Selasi: ‘Afropolitan, American, African. Whatever’
The authors discuss translation, ‘travelling while black’ and how to avoid classification
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A Thorny Question for African American Museum: Whose Story Do We Tell?
“Our museum is built on individual narratives, but you’re just not going to be able to tell everybody’s story,” curator Nancy Bercaw said.
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Daughter of Prominent Civil Rights Pastor Says the Church Must Re-Commit to Social Gospel
The institutional church, which has largely embraced the prosperity gospels, must return to its original social justice commitment, says Jennifer Jones Austin.
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