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Dawoud Bey wants to deterritorialize art: 'When I'm in these spaces, it opens up space for the Black...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFor five decades, photographer Dawoud Bey has aimed his lens at the faces and spaces of Black Americans. He just debuted his first-ever L.A. solo show at Sean Kelly Gallery in Hollywood and has another exhibition at Getty Center.
Tampa Museum of Art’s exhibition showcases prolific Black photographers
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTAMPA — An emotional, powerful photographic experience awaits at the Tampa Museum of Art. Organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the exhibition “Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue ...
How Teju Cole's new novel literally reframes the Black experience
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn his 2022 photo series, “Night Coming Tenderly, Black,” photographer Dawoud Bey reimagines the path of enslaved people escaping along the Underground Railroad. The photographs were taken during ...
A Family Photo Album Holds Black History
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Family Photo Album Holds Black HistoryTen Speed Press/Penguin Random House The practice of photography has a long and complex relationship within the...
Your planners deserve some heat in April. Start with these pop-ups, launches, shows
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrom Marni X No Vacancy Inn's latest collab to Ryan Preciado's first solo exhibition at Matthew...
Riding on fumes? 15 free events you can enjoy this summer with your family
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhoever said nothing in this world is free told the truth. At the end of the day, you still have to...
Sculptor Richard Hunt, whose work made an outsize impression in Chicago and across the country, dies...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoChicago sculptor Richard Hunt, whose abstract work includes the Ida B. Wells monument in Bronzeville...
‘A Picture Gallery of the Soul’ features photos from more than 100 artists capturing Black life
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBlack history and culture in America are examined through a new mixed media exhibition now on...
Premier artists from Africa and Haiti shine at exhibits in Opa-locka for Miami Art Week
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoWhile artwork by top Haitian and African artists can be found in various venues in Miami and Miami...
Samella Lewis, 'godmother' of Black art who helped preserve its history, dies at 99
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe expression "Renaissance woman" is an overused one — often deployed in reference to anyone who might have a toe in more than one subject area. But when it came to Samella Lewis, it was true ...