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How Arthur Lewis built a dynamic collection of black art | Artsy

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020African American Art, Black Art

The front door of Arthur Lewis’s Los Angeles home opens to a room organized like an exhibition space. The marks of domesticity—dining room table, mantel, fireplace, throw pillows—are present, but engulfed by art. Paintings and sculptures grab all the attention, and maybe the intention, of the space. Titus Kaphar’s Enough About You (2016) greets your first glance. […]

How Jacob Lawrence Captured the African American Experience With ‘The Migration Series’ | My Modern Met

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020African American Art, Black Art

New York City has always attracted avant-garde artists. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] From the energetic Abstract Expressionists to the pioneers of American Pop Art, forward-thinking creatives have flocked to the city that never sleeps for decades. While each and every modern movement cultivated in the Big Apple has made its mark on the history of art, the […]

African American Miniature Museum Founder and Artist Karen Collins Has”Greensboro Four” Piece Highlighted by Google to Kick off Black History Month | Good Black News

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020African American Art

Sixty years ago, four African American college students sat down quietly at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] They received no service, only requests to leave, but they kept waiting for hours. And the next day, they returned and waited again. Within three days of their protest, more than 300 […]

Meet the child genius who became world’s youngest orchestra conductor at 11 | Face2Face Africa

February 1, 2020February 1, 2020African American Art, African American Music

At just 11 years old, Matthew Smith could play four instruments. He could play the guitar, drums, piano and viola. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] But what brought the child music prodigy to the limelight was when he led Nottingham Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus in April 2017. This made him the world’s youngest conductor […]

African Fabrics Connect to Form Quilted Portraits of Black Figures by Bisa Butler | Colossal

January 28, 2020January 28, 2020African American Art

Brooklyn-based artist Bisa Butler (previously) uses brightly colored cotton, wool, and chiffon fabrics with bold patterns to piece together quilts featuring detailed portraits of Black people. The materials and themes connect American subjects with their African roots and tell visual stories of history and culture. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Butler is a New Jersey-born African American artist […]

Cobb County high school cellist heading to Carnegie Hall | Fox5 Atlanta

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020African American Art, African American Music

POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. – The first time 16-year-old Khalil Payne picked up a cello, he says he felt an instant connection. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I’m going to try to find a good analogy,” Payne says. “It’s like, for the first time, when you finally find your favorite flavor of food.” Payne was a rising sixth-grader then […]

Why Aesha Ash is Wandering Around Inner City Rochester in a Tutu | Dance Magazine

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020African American Art, Ballet

Growing up in inner city Rochester, NY, Aesha Ash was just one of the neighborhood kids. She’d imagine people driving by, judging her by her black skin. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “They’d never know that I was dreaming of becoming a professional ballet dancer. No one would think, Some day she’s going to make it into New […]

He Photographed Ferguson. Now Adrian Walker is in The National Portrait Gallery | Riverfront Times

December 28, 2019African American Activist, African American Art ...

The exhibition has deep roots for Adrian, yet the idea was first inspired by a series of coincidences. A friend recommended that Adrian shoot product photos for OJI Royale in Los Angeles, which makes designer and luxury durags. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “That’s what I was set to do, but I try to tell stories within all […]

The Hip-Hop Museum Is A Reality Thanks To $3.5 Million From New York | Ambrosia for Heads

December 24, 2019December 24, 2019African American Art, African American Museum

For years, there has been a drive to make the Universal Hip-Hop Museum a reality. New, the Empire State is providing some significant seven-figure funding to give the Bronx, New York a place where Hip-Hop Heads can celebrate the culture’s origins and heritage. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Thursday (December 19), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced […]

Christine Chambers, 39, Dies; Her Photos Empowered Actors of Color | The New York Times

December 21, 2019December 21, 2019African American Art, African American Photography

As a photographer and a playwright, she helped document the rise of a generation of theater artists who wanted to tell their own stories their own way. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Christine Chambers, a photographer whose pictures of actors of color helped document the rise of a newly energized black theater movement that emerged in New York […]