The grotesque exploitation of Frida Kahlo… and the artist behind the myths
Read MoreAfro-Cuban Musician Brings Special Project to DC JazzFest | The Washington Informer
As a standard-bearer of Afro-Cuban cultural traditions, Terry has had to branch out on several projects to embrace the whole, including the jazz culture of his adopted home in New York City.
Read MoreDeborah Roberts’ powerful statement of black female identity | Los Angeles Times
The images celebrate what it means to contain multitudes.
Read MoreSee hip-hop evolve through photos at the African American History and Culture Museum | Smithsonian Insider
“Represent: Hip Hop Photography” explores four themes of how identity, creativity, activism and community influenced elements of hip-hop, including DJs, MCs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists.
Read MoreCelebrating the Grace of Black Women | The New York Times
More than half a century after the groundbreaking exhibit “The Negro Woman,” the image announcing the show by the African-American collective Kamoinge still captivates.
Read MoreNew Online Exhibition Chronicles the Many Facets of Frida Kahlo’s Life and Work | Hyperallergic
Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together some 800 artifacts from ultra-high resolution images of her work to personal objects and rarely-seen photos.
Read MoreAmy Sherald on Her “Gentle Presentation of Black Identity” and More | Hyperallergic
Sherald, who has a solo show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, shares her reasons for painting and what’s next for her career.
Read MoreBlack Blooded To Open At New Museum Of Modern Art May 30th In Charlotte | Black Art In America
Built like a family photo album with close to 70 pieces by 50 artists, this group exhibition demonstrates the diversity and nuisance within narratives of tradition, consanguinity, and origin.
Read MoreSouth African Photographer of Iconic Protest Image Dies | AFRO
Tributes are being paid following the death of Sam Nzima, the South African photographer who took the iconic image of a Black high school student carrying a fatally wounded fellow pupil away from the gunfire of apartheid police in 1976.
Read MoreA Hidden Hero Of Jazz
Williams didn’t just change, she grew; the brilliant ideas that were present in her earlier work expanded on contact with new musical realms, and she found herself doubling back on prior resistance to the strongest and most difficult new styles to incorporate both their freedom and their complexity into her playing.
Read More