Walker’s drawn and collaged images depicting haunting scenes of abuse and violence refuse to let us look away from America’s bloody past and present.
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Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music | Hyperallergic
Biggers’s current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.
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Baltimore artist Amy Sherald to paint Michelle Obama’s official portrait | The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004 and just joined the faculty there, has been commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to paint the official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama.
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Creative Souls | Truthdig
African American artists have made powerful and enduring contributions to this development for many decades, yet their work still remains less visible than that of their white colleagues and contemporaries of comparable talent and achievement.
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In an Era of Strife, Museums Collect History as It Happens | The New York Times
Though curators have long secured select artifacts whose significance was immediately apparent, museum experts say the scope of what the African American museum and others now call “rapid response collecting” has grown significantly in recent years.
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Kennedy Center Launches Its First Ever Hip-Hop Season | DCist
“Goal number one is to provide a home for the culture: artists, organizations, and individuals interested in presenting hip-hop related programs…”
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At the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Art | Hyperallergic
The Legacy of Lynching is a collaboration between the museum and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, presenting racial histories we’ve long been asleep to.
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The SCAD Museum of Art Celebrates the Legacy of Jacob Lawrence | Hyperallergic
SCAD commemorates the centennial of the artist’s birth with a landmark group exhibition, on view through February 4, 2018.
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The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm. | The New York Times
As the Studio Museum prepares to break ground here next year, coinciding with its 50th anniversary, Ms. Golden, is overseeing the institution at a turning point in its history.
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Haki Madhubuti reflects on 50 years of cultivating black arts | The Chicago Reporter
Poet and educator Haki Madhubuti could easily spend every waking hour repeating “I told you so” when it comes to what’s at stake for black America, but he’s characteristically doing something about it rather than talking about it.
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