Blessed. That’s the first word that comes to mind during the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s City Center season.
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2016
Plus the best historical releases.
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Smithsonian’s Black History Museum Changes Ticket Policy, Extends Hours for Holidays
In an effort to get more visitors through its doors, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., will now make free, same-day visitor passes available online rather than requiring patrons to wait in line.
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Who Is We? Intersecting Engagement and Equity Efforts at Philadelphia’s Art Institutions
“Conversations at Moore: Who Is We?” takes place at Moore College of Art & Design on Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 6:30pm – 8pm.
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James Baldwin, Onstage
Meshell Ndegeocello creates a piece of theatre inspired by “The Fire Next Time” and presents it as a church service.
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A Basquiat Painting Transforms a College Museum into a Space for Protest
The Williams College Museum of Art has invited anyone to host conversations around Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart).
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An Unflinching Meditation on the Violence Perpetrated Against Black Americans
In addition to the centuries of trauma that artists are exploring and attempting to reconcile with contemporary reality, there is also an underlying solidarity that weaves itself into the fabric of Non-fiction at the Underground Museum.
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From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora
SUMMIT, NJ — Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.
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Three African American Civil War vets to be relocated, buried at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery
Three Cumberland County men who died after serving our country were buried in the forgotten remnants of an overgrown cemetery, their stories lost in the woods and in the pages of history.
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Retrospective: The Latest News in Black Art – Theaster Gates Starts Apprentice Program, Rodney McMillian Wins Austin Art Prize
This week, Theaster Gates announced a groundbreaking apprenticeship program to provide training for local residents through his Rebuild Foundation in Chicago; Rodney McMillian received an important inaugural art prize; and a number of African American artists were honored at galas and benefit dinners.
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