The upcoming documentary explores Basquiat’s formative teenage years in New York City.
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Wall Street Rush to Scoop Up Black Art Sends Prices Sky High | Bloomberg
Black artists, long overlooked and undervalued, now occupy one of the hottest corners of the market.
Read MoreNot Enough Color In American Art Museums | NPR
The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum’s African Art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, “There are very few of us in the field.”
Read MoreWishing A Very Happy Birthday to Dr. Samella Lewis | Black Art In America
Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history.
Read MoreCharles 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 MoreA New Film Charts 150 Years of African-American Art | Hyperallergic
Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.
Read MoreMickalene 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 MoreHappy 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 More13 Incredible Black Artists, Past And Present, Everybody Should Know | Blavity
Paying homage and celebrating black artist as cultural documentarians
Read MoreMeet 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.’
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