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Abstract Romare Bearden DC Moore Gallery
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OPENING TODAY: "Jordan Casteel: Within Reach" presents nearly forty works spanning the artist's career.
In her large-scale oil paintings, Casteel has developed a distinctive figurative language permeated by the presence of her subjects, who are typically captured in larger-than-life depictions that teem with domestic details and psychological insights.
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Saturday, February 29, hear from the artist as she discusses her work with Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum: http://bit.ly/CasteelTalk
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Jordan Casteel, "Charles," 2016 (detail). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan , New York
Curators Legacy Russell, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Zoé Whitley, and Ashley James share insights on 12 artists of the African diaspora who deserve the spotlight.
Alumnus Robert E. Steele and his wife Jean have donated 100 works of art to YUAG — including work by Faith Ringgold, Sam Gilliam, David C. Driskell, and others.
The sale will include more than 100 lots of historically significant works by African American artists, spanning three centuries,
Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Elizabeth Catlett, Richmond Barthé, Walter W Edit your email frequency. 104 E 25th St, NYC 10010 • (212) 254-4710 Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings New Catalogue African-American Fine Art At Auction April 2 Browse Catalogue Lot 94: Romare Bear...
Good News
The Museum of Modern Art announced the appointment of Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi as the first Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator, ...
Good to know history:
After 150 years, the legendary French gallery Bernheim-Jeune, which also hosted the first Italian Futurist show in Paris, has closed.
A Very Abbreviated Version of Black Art History
While African Americans have been producing visual art in this country since slavery, only recently have they been accepted into mainstream culture.
WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF HIM
Tavares Strachan’s tribute to astronaut Robert H. Lawrence is scheduled for liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/t-magazine/black-art-dealers.html
How a small but influential group of black gallerists is correcting history.
It was 3:00 AM, February 3, 2018, the morning of the opening for the much-anticipated show Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. The show originated in London at the Tate Modern and lite…
This year’s fair captures the field on the cusp of change, part of an ever-widening mainstream with two major museum exhibitions ahead.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/the-playful-political-art-of-sanford-biggers
An under-sung artist upends received ideas about race and history.
No one’s going to let you into the art world. This is a reality that Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s most esteemed painters, whose numerous ac...
This Fall, at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the work of acclaimed artist Xenobia Bailey will be exhibited in Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field. Part of her 8-week micro-residency at the museum, the interdisciplinary exhibition is an immersive showing of the artist’s large-s...
WONDERFUL
The two visual artists will paint the first Black U.S. president and first lady for the Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.
Dawoud Bey, famed photographer of African-American life, wins MacArthur genius grant.
MIDDLETOWN - "Black Pulp!", an exhibition that examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary works of art, will be on view in the Main Gallery at Wesleyan University's Ezra…
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3884?locale=en
Exhibition. October 7, 2017–January 1, 2018. Charles White (1918–1979) taught drawing in Los Angeles from the mid-1960s until the end of his life, and mentored a generation of students. Among them is David Hammons (American, born 1943), who studied with White early in his career. This exhibition, cu...
Arvie Smith to Receive Governor Kate Brown's Arts Award
https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/apex-arvie-smith/
Extended through March 12! Portland artist Arvie Smith paints beautifully, with luscious glowing color and fluid brushwork. His large, ambitious canvases reveal a baroque sensibility. His adept use of flowing line and animated figurative compositions appear to draw inspiration from … Continued
Review: Classic Theatre of Harlem Brings a Bit of the Hood To Its ‘Three Musketeers’
By Megan Wrappe, Contributing Writer, July 12, 2017 The story of The Three Musketeers was already a
Review: Classic Theatre of Harlem Brings a Bit of the Hood To Its ‘Three Musketeers’
By Megan Wrappe, Contributing Writer, July 12, 2017 The story of The Three Musketeers was already a
Artist Rashid Johnson will direct a new film adaptation of Richard Wright's seminal novel, "Native Son." Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will write the script.
The story of a Louisiana art legend Clementine Hunter begins with forgotten paintbrushes and paints left behind.
A very good look inside the art world cultural maze
Three major New York exhibitions provoked outrage and protest from African American artists amid the rising black power movement—what can we learn from them?
From New York to Hong Kong, São Paulo to Chicago, these 20 curators wielded the greatest art world influence in 2016.
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