The Year in Black Art: A Wealth of Blockbuster Exhibitions
WEBDec 22, 2023 · Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images. It was a great year in Black art from New York to the San Francisco Bay. In 2023 it was featured throughout the country in a wealth of blockbuster exhibitions...
See the Black Art Remaking Our Culture - The New York Times
WEBOct 7, 2020 · Already some of the most important reservoirs of modern Black culture, including Vine, a short-form video site that predated TikTok, or BlackPlanet, a social-networking site built specifically...
Boundaries of Black art challenged in new show | CNN
WEBJun 6, 2024 · “The Whole World Smiles With You” showcases artists whose work escapes neat definition and asks, “What happens if you don’t make work that’s so overtly Black, joyous or positive?”
Black art and literature are celebrated in this year’s MacArthur ...
WEB23 hours ago · Eight Black recipients have been named in this year’s class, including scholar and writer Ruha Benjamin, poet Jericho Brown, media artist Tony Cokes, historian Jennifer Morgan, multimedia artist...
A new HBO documentary shows us the power of Black art in …
WEBFeb 12, 2021 · A new HBO documentary, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” looks at the legacy of Driskell (1931-2020), a Black American scholar, artist and curator, and his revolutionary landmark exhibition.
African American art - The Art Newspaper
WEBAfrican American art. genre. Museums & Heritage news. Efforts to restore dilapidated house museum of African American art in Savannah, Georgia get significant boost. The Kiah house will be...
The powerful paintings reframing black experience - BBC
WEBFeb 29, 2024 · A new exhibition of black figurative art gets to the truth behind race, history and the world we live in now. Consider the human figure.
A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA
WEBSep 13, 2022 · Just Above Midtown, an incubator of some of the most important Black avant-garde art of the 1970s and ’80s, is the subject of a new exhibition.
HBO Documentary Celebrates 'Black Art,' Indicts The Forces That ... - NPR
WEBFeb 24, 2021 · A 1976 exhibit of art created by African Americans was the first major show by a Black curator and serves as a starting point for the HBO documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light.
5 Powerful Stories on Black Art History
WEBFeb 16, 2021 · So we’re taking this opportunity to celebrate the Black art and identities that have been crucial in shaping art history for years—and will continue to shape it for many more to come. Here are just five of the many stories of Black art, culture, and history interwoven throughout The Met collection.