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At 78, a Memphis sculptor sees his work headed to museums | Daily Memphian

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020African American Art, Black Art

— Peggy Burch, Daily Memphian The artist Luther Hampton sits at a table next to the bar at B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale, drawing his own face on the sketch book in front of him. When someone sits down across from him, after an exchange of pleasantries, he asks for more coffee, turns […]

‘It Should’ve Happened A Long Time Ago’: Whitney Retrospective Gives Black Photographers Their Due | Gothamist

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020African American Art, African American Photography

— Danny Lewis, WNYC, Gothamist In the 1960s, a group of Black photographers from New York City began gathering in kitchens, living rooms, and galleries to critique each other’s work. According to one of the workshop’s founders and its current president, Adger Cowans, they basically began as “bull sessions” where photographers would talk shop. […]

Time has come for Tyler Gordon, 14-year-old painting prodigy from San Jose | DATEBOOK, San Francisco Chronicle

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020African American Art, Black Art

— Tony Bravo, DATEBOOK, San Francisco Chronicle When Tyler Gordon paints, he starts with the darkest and most defined facial features: the line of the eyes, the structure of the jaw, the shadow from the chin. He continues with the medium-shaded areas, lips, hair, nose, then and finishes with the lightest surfaces, like the […]

August Wilson to Be Immortalized on United States Postal Service Forever Stamp | TheaterMania

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020African American Art

The perfect presents really do come in small packages. — David Gordon, TheaterMania Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson will be immortalize on a United States Postal Service Forever stamp, being dedicated on January 28, 2021. The stamp will be the 44th edition of the Black Heritage series and will be issued in a set […]

The Art Brothers: Opening doors for more Black art collectors | AJC

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020African American Art, Black Art

— Shelia Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AJC When Onaje Henderson bought a house at age 23, the first item the young engineer bought was a painting by Patricia Bohannon. He had acquired the abstract painting from an exhibit featuring the work of African American artists. His friends couldn’t understand why he spent money on […]

Black artists lead public art campaign in Columbus to advocate for racial justice through murals | The Columbus Dispatch

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020African American Art, Black Art

The first in a series of six murals has debuted as part of the “Deliver Black Dreams” campaign, which serves as a Columbus-wide call to action in support of racial justice and equality. — ERIC LAGATTA, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The artists were a few hours into painting a large-scale mural advocating for the dignity of […]

Meet LA’s Art Community: Sue Bell Yank Believes Art and Organizing Produce “Real Social Change” | Hyperallergic

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020African American Art

An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks. — Elisa Wouk Almino, Hyperallergic Welcome to the 29th installment of Meet LA’s Art Community. Check out our past interviews here. This week I interview Sue Bell Yank, the […]

Meet the Black millennial art curator who was tapped by auction house Christie’s for an exhibit, whose portrait Beyoncé featured in ‘Black Is King,’ and worked on a Zendaya photoshoot | Business Insider

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020African American Art, Black Art

— Dominic-Madori Davis, Business Insider The call from famed auction house Christie’s came right in the middle of George Floyd protests. Destinee Ross-Sutton, a 24-year-old art curator based out of Brooklyn, New York, admits she was “a bit wary” at first. “Christie’s reached out to one of the artists I worked with and he directed them […]

Ronnie Goodman, artist with ‘a visual voice’ on homelessness, 1960-2020 | San Francisco Bay View

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020African American Art

By T. J. Johnston, San Francisco Bay View Almost prophetically, Ronnie Goodman made an etching of people marching in the street and carrying a banner that reads “No More Homeless Deaths,” one in a myriad of drawings, paintings and engravings he produced. After a lifetime of creating art while homeless or incarcerated, on Aug. 7, […]

Black-Owned Galleries to Support across the United States | Artsy

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020African American Art, Black Art

By Artsy Editorial, Artsy Though they faced many obstacles historically—and still do today—Black gallerists in the United States have been hugely influential. Black dealers have launched the careers of artists who are now considered canonical and have worked with collectors intent on lifting up the voices of individuals from historically underrepresented communities. The work that […]