American painter’s dealer, David Zwirner, tops ArtReview Power 100, with #MeToo third
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How Misty Copeland is empowering at-risk youth through dance | The Guardian
To see Misty Copeland dance is to witness seemingly physics-defying strength and utmost grace in action.
View MoreRoy Hargrove, Trumpeter Who Gave Jazz a Jolt of Youth, Dies at 49 | The New York Times
Roy Hargrove, a virtuoso trumpeter who became a symbol of jazz’s youthful renewal in the early 1990s, and then established himself as one of the most respected musicians of his generation, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 49.
View MoreMoMA Is Finally Giving Legendary Black Artist Charles White His Due | Vice
Black people have made great art forever but have been mostly ignored by large museums. Nearly 40 years after his death, White is finally getting the acclaim he deserves.
View MoreAllison Janae Hamilton’s Spirit Sources | The New York Times
Her multimedia art never strays far from her concern with the land, especially the Southern land, and its occupants, especially its black occupants.
View MoreReview: A Vital and Sweeping ‘Porgy and Bess’ Debuts in London | The New York Times
This “Porgy and Bess,” a joint production with the Metropolitan Opera and the Dutch National Opera, is coming to the Met next season.
View More‘Well-Read Black Girl’ Is Bigger Than Glory Edim | The New York Times
This September, outside a boutique store in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, members of the Well-Read Black Girl book club sat in a misshapen circle of folding chairs on the sidewalk.
View MoreHow Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making | The New York Times Style Magazine
Perhaps our best contemporary photographer, she creates work that insists on the worth of black women — both in art and in life.
View MoreShe’s sold 500 paintings and written a children’s book. She’s 13. | The News & Observer
Camryn, an eighth-grader at Thales Academy in Rolesville, talks about how she juggles it all and offers some advice for other young entrepreneurs.
View MoreBlack Women Animate Partners with Cartoon Network for Boot Camp | Colorlines
The group is working to get Black women in the door in the animation industry.
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