Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history.
Read More
KOLUMN Magazine
Charles White: A Retrospective, The Art Institute Chicago, Summer 18′ | Art Institute Chicago
A superbly gifted draftsman and printmaker as well as a talented mural and easel painter, he developed a distinctive and labor-intensive approach to art making and remained committed to a representational style at a time when the art world increasingly favored abstraction.
Read More
Review: A Reimagined ‘Giselle,’ With South African Roots | The New York Times
Gia Kourlas, The New York Times Emon Hassan for The New York Times, Featured Image raditionally, the moment you know Giselle has lost her mind is when her hair slips out of its tidy bun and frames her face like a sticky, sweaty halo. She unravels — physically, emotionally, mentally — and eventually collapses and…
Read More
Mickalene Thomas will create figures of black women for Sculpture Milwaukee | Journal Sentinel
“While the women in my work celebrate different notions of beauty, I think simultaneously they are providing a confrontational barrier that challenges the clichés traditionally laid on women of color,”
Read More
Happy 69th Birthday, Brother Gil Scott-Heron | The Philadelphia Tribune
When he first told America in 1970 that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” after having written it in 1968 at age 19, Gil Scott-Heron set the stage for what would become part of the musical and poetic soundtrack for revolutionaries worldwide. And he didn’t stop until four decades later.
Read More
These Portraits Shine A Light On The Homeless Faces You Pass Every Day | Huffington Post
The illustrated profiles of men and women who’ve experienced homelessness in New York City in this series are gorgeous.
Read More
Stream Lakecia Benjamin’s Funkier-Than-Thou Album “Rise Up” | Okayplayer
A bonafide funk, jazz and R&B star, Lakecia Benjamin is happy to share her latest Ropeadope effort, Rise Up, with the masses who love good tunes.
Read More
Meet Hugo McCloud, the Artist Who Makes Metal Beautiful | The Daily Beast
Hugo McCloud creates stunning pieces from traditionally overlooked materials, while resisting the art world’s tendency to pigeonhole him as a ‘black artist.’
Read More
Ebony Patterson Searches for the Lives of the Unknown Dead in a Jamaica Massacre | Hyperallergic
Patterson, a native Jamaican, raises a litany of questions around the unidentified dead in the 2010 Tivoli Incursion in Kingston.
Read More
The Woman Making Art out of the FBI’s Surveillance of Her Black Panther Father | Broadly.
Civil rights activist Rodney Barnette was under government surveillance for over 10 years. Now his daughter, Sadie, has turned his 500-page FBI file into art.
Read More