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The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.
The underground-comic artist visits the Whitney with his biographer, Dan Nadel, and considers some old friends: his own ...
A new Black woman-owned gallery in the Jackson Ward area in Richmond is now open, allowing the public to meet artists of ...
Inspired by the likes of Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Romaire Bearden, and Wangechi Mutu, Self illustrates the modernity of Black life and, more specifically, the iconographic ...
the painting is not an illustration of anything.” and “8. allow the paint as material to take care of the black thing.” These musings, though initially intended to inform only Whitten’s ...
Drew Hammond, Beverly Tipton-Hammond, Karen Caldwell and Jorie Engstrom and gives testament to Minnesota’s rich Black art scene. seangarrison has been a bit of a force in the Twin Cities in ...
It is a “black cube”: an inversion of the white-walled space that has been the default for showing art since the 20th century. Born in New York, Cheng — the grandson of Hong Kong shipping ma ...
Asiedu, a black man, argued that neither McGregor nor his supporters are at all racist. “Can I say something without people getting mad?” he began. “It’s OK for countries to not wants lots ...
Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities. By Adam Bradley LAST SPRING, DURING the Broadway ...
It turns out that her mother was someone thought to be the first documented Black woman painter in the country, one whose works were never shown publicly — until now: An artist named Edith ...
The list, he explained, is a database featuring the names of 200 Black artists from Columbus over the past 50 years. Clearly, Woods is no stranger to Columbus’ arts and culture scene.