In The Evanesced at the California African American Museum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle confronts society’s compulsion to reframe, mitigate, or eliminate the role of black women in the US.
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A History of Blackness in American Cinema at MoMA – Hyperallergic
The series Making Faces on Film gathers daring and singular films about being black in the United States, from 1913 to today.
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Painter Barkley L. Hendricks Dies at 72 – Hyperallergic
The artist, best known for his bold portraits of Black people, passed away early this morning.
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From Books by Black Women to Electricians’ Stories, a Show Catalogues Alternative Archives – Hyperallergic
An exhibition at Nurture Art features evolving collections of art and testimony from people too often left out of official histories.
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An Art of Dislocation and Reinvention Reflects the Epic of Black America – Hyperallergic
Quite simply, the history, not just of art in Los Angeles, but of modern American art generally will have to be reconceived on the basis of Now Dig This!, the exhibition curated by Kellie Jones, and her new book, South of Pico.
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Grappling with Racism Past and Present in Segregated Cleveland – Hyperallergic
Exhibitions by Imani Roach, Soda_Jerk, and Anthony Warnick at SPACES gallery explore American racial prejudice across different periods of time.
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200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in pictures – The Guardian
From Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to move to Paris and be accepted into the Salon, to superstars of today like Kara Walker, here’s how generations of artists have tackled race, identity and prejudice.
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Artist Shanequa Gay brings inspiring black experiences to canvas in new exhibition – The Undefeated
‘Fair Is Foul and Foul Ain’t Fair’ opens at Wofford College in honor of Women’s History Month
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‘Dimensions’ at MCASD downtown presents a wide range of viewpoints – The San Diego Union-Tribune
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s exhibit “Dimensions of Black” presents a wide array of art forms and subjects from the 1970s to modern times. What ties the more than 30 pieces together is that they are all created by African-American artists.
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Remembrances of Betty Blayton-Taylor, Studio Museum Co-Founder and Harlem Arts Activist – Hyperallergic
Betty not only opened doors, she built new doors — doors that, nearly 50 years later, remain permanently open in her students’ own backyard.
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