Essie Green Galleries

03/16/2020

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03/16/2020

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Abstract Romare Bearden DC Moore Gallery

03/16/2020

https://www.facebook.com/newmuseum/posts/10157269262254611:0

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

03/16/2020

4 Curators on the Artists They’re Celebrating This Black History Month

https://www.artsy.net/article/casey-lesser-4-curators-artists-celebrating-black-history-month?fbclid=IwAR1j77gfSN7_xhH9i0TspOlZDSPBXu3Fk2D44nseEPRXScxk1nWumVl1ldQ

Curators Legacy Russell, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Zoé Whitley, and Ashley James share insights on 12 artists of the African diaspora who deserve the spotlight.

03/16/2020

From one family, 100 works of African-American art for Yale

https://news.yale.edu/2020/03/02/one-family-100-works-african-american-art-yale?fbclid=IwAR2uUdj8k8NUSlKC0ckCvY4sfaLN_UrZqzTOqQmlmISpRAJuTB0PTsDifVY

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.

03/16/2020

Black Art Auction Host Historic Auction Of African American Fine Art May 16

https://www.blackartinamerica.com/index.php/2020/03/03/black-art-auction-host-historic-auction-of-african-american-fine-art-may-16/?fbclid=IwAR1XnzEwhY4JQqUyV7pWYQwhmppIefBzZjOpIEWufvH8mQewO-jWxPOMXWQ

The sale will include more than 100 lots of historically significant works by African American artists, spanning three centuries,

03/16/2020

An Exclusive Look Inside Julie Mehretu’s New York Studio

https://www.galeriemagazine.com/julie-mehretu/?fbclid=IwAR1LAWO3gyyiEp-I1wyprGA63wErTLsLtRKxv2AhszDco9UP3CBEeWrzMAE

03/16/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/arts/jacob-lawrence-lost-art.html?fbclid=IwAR2RN3n5h9mVqbxtMuTj8Ut4iwaVkAuvbqApWXR2T5IdFNfMRiZaIijlZMk

03/16/2020

New Catalogue: African-American Fine Art

https://t.e2ma.net/webview/junq1g/82f39babc53268a5bb6c039e2ec8f6a6?fbclid=IwAR0HvoxHCL_K-TWpj0Il3U_DGocSAklYRYQO_vWu9XuZGZ0yHK5ruyjnvQQ

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...

03/08/2019

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi Joins MoMA as Curator | Contemporary And

Good News

The Museum of Modern Art announced the appointment of Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi as the first Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator, ...

02/19/2019

The Famed Paris Gallery Bernheim-Jeune, Which Held the First van Gogh Retrospective in 1901, Has Closed | artnet News

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.

11/20/2018

A Very Abbreviated Version of Black Art History

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.

11/20/2018

Artist Will Send Sculpture into Orbit as Tribute to Pioneering Black Astronaut

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.

08/07/2018

Charles White: A Retrospective | MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3930

06/21/2018

Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers?

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.

02/07/2018

Soul Of A Nation Makes U.S. Debut: Here Is Some Perspective

https://blackartinamerica.com/index.php/2018/02/04/soul-of-a-nation-makes-u-s-debut-here-is-some-perspective/

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…

01/19/2018

The Outsider Fair Once More Confirms That Art Is Everywhere

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/arts/design/the-outsider-fair-once-more-confirms-that-art-is-everywhere.html

This year’s fair captures the field on the cusp of change, part of an ever-widening mainstream with two major museum exhibitions ahead.

01/10/2018

The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers

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.

11/10/2017

Doctor expands vision with first art gallery

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2017/11/04/doctor-expands-vision-first-art-gallery/828500001/

11/10/2017

Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined | Whitney Museum of American Art

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ToyinOjihOdutola

11/10/2017

How Kerry James Marshall Became a Superhero for Chicago’s Housing Projects

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-kerry-james-marshall-became-a-superhero-for-chicago-s-housing-projects

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...

11/03/2017

Acclaimed visual artist & craftswoman Xenobia Bailey starts residency at the Museum of Arts and Design

http://afropunk.com/2017/11/acclaimed-folk-artist-xenobia-bailey-starts-micro-residency-museum-arts-design/

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...

10/18/2017

Barack and Michelle Obama Select Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to Paint National Gallery Portraits

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.

10/13/2017

A Major Retrospective of Conceptual Pioneer Adrian Piper is Opening at Museum of Modern Art in 2018 | Culture Type

http://www.culturetype.com/2017/10/06/a-major-retrospective-of-conceptual-pioneer-adrian-piper-is-opening-at-museum-of-modern-art-in-2018/

10/11/2017

Photographer Dawoud Bey adds MacArthur genius grant to noted career looking at African-American life

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-dawoud-bey-macarthur-genius-grant-20171011-story.html

Dawoud Bey, famed photographer of African-American life, wins MacArthur genius grant.

10/04/2017

Press Release | Betye Saar to Receive Three Lifetime Achievement Honors

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Press-Release---Betye-Saar-to-Receive-Three-Lifetime-Achievement-Honors.html?soid=1101407361686&aid=srYYAnrsZcc

09/21/2017

Middletown’s Wesleyan University gallery presents ‘Black Pulp’ exhibition

http://www.middletownpress.com/entertainment/article/Middletown-s-Wesleyan-University-gallery-12216384.php?cmpid=fb-tablet

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…

09/20/2017

Charles White—Leonardo da Vinci. Curated by David Hammons | MoMA

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...

09/14/2017

APEX: Arvie Smith - Portland Art Museum

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

07/15/2017

Review: Classic Theatre of Harlem Brings a Bit of the Hood To Its ‘Three Musketeers’

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

07/15/2017

Review: Classic Theatre of Harlem Brings a Bit of the Hood To Its ‘Three Musketeers’

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

02/22/2017

Rashid Johnson to Direct Film Adaptation of “Native Son” | Artinfo

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1958463/rashid-johnson-to-direct-film-adaptation-of-native-son?utm_source=Blouin+Artinfo+Newsletters&utm_campaign=5ce86a5ccb-Daily+Digest+02.22.2017+-+8+AM&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df23dbd3c6-5ce86a5ccb-83270405

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.

02/04/2017

Louisiana famed folk artist's life comes to the silver screen

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/entertainment/movies/2017/02/01/louisiana-famed-folk-artists-life-comes-silver-screen/96714594/

The story of a Louisiana art legend Clementine Hunter begins with forgotten paintbrushes and paints left behind.

01/03/2017

How African-American Artists Fought to Diversify Museums

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?

12/29/2016

The Most Influential Curators of 2016

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-most-influential-curators-of-2016?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sm-2016-tyia&utm_content=fb-tyia-top-curators-2016-2

From New York to Hong Kong, São Paulo to Chicago, these 20 curators wielded the greatest art world influence in 2016.