— Benjamin Sutton, Artsy The artist Kara Walker has created an instantly iconic portrait of the recently deceased author Toni Morrison for the cover of The New Yorker magazine. The portrait, shared by the magazine on Instagram and reposted by Walker, features a closeup of Morrison’s head. The artwork is rendered in Walker’s distinctive, high-contrast, cut […]
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[Video] Collector Dr. Joy Simmons Takes Us Inside Her Art-Filled L.A. Home | The Cut
Dr. Joy Simmons set out in 1992 to design an art-filled home in L.A. in which to raise her two young daughters. She was a practicing radiologist and an art collector, who today has amassed one of the most important collections of African-American art in the country. Joy’s house reflects her passion for her family, […]
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Baton Rouge activist was killed by a tenant behind on his rent, police say | The Washington Post
Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Law enforcement officials including Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul, at lectern, announce the arrest of Ronn Jermaine Bell on Tuesday. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate/AP). Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap] man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, the Baton Rouge activist whose body was found in a […]
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Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students | NPR
Sculptor Augusta Savage once said: “I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been leaping ever since.” Born on Feb. 29, 1892, Savage leapt from the Jim Crow South to public attention in the Harlem Renaissance, but is little known today. Now, her work is the focus of an […]
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Uncovering the Soul of the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement | The New York Times
The New York photographer Kwame Brathwaite helped ignite a global celebration of African-American style and identity.
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Ernie Barnes: the overlooked legacy of the athlete turned celebrity artist | The Guardian
The work of the football player who became a painter is finally being celebrated, from his Olympics artwork to his Marvin Gaye album cover
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Michelle Obama Portrait Artist Unveils Mural of Philly Teen | US News & World Reports
A new, six-story high mural by the artist who painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama is being dedicated in Philadelphia.
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Amy Sherald, who painted Michelle Obama’s portrait, designs a mural that turns a Philly teen into her own inspiration | Elizabeth Wellington | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Elizabeth Wellington, The Philadelphia Inquirer Arthur Haywood works to install a mural by Amy Sherald, the woman who painted the portrait of Michelle Obama for the Smithsonian, at 1109 Sansom in Center City Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. The girl in the mural, Najee Spencer-Young, is from North Philly. HEATHER KHALIFA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. […]
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Sculptor Augusta Savage’s Towering Impact on the Harlem Renaissance | Artsy
When I was in elementary school in the early 1990s, I would occasionally beg my mother for money to buy a book from the Scholastic Books circular. One year, I asked for a title called Great Women In the Struggle, the second volume in the “Book of Black Heroes” series. Its purple cover featured black-and-white […]
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Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers | Hyperallergic
Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.
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