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After Misty Comes Marie. Breaking Barriers in ‘The Nutcracker.’ | The New York Times

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019African American Art

This year, for the first time, New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ has a black Marie, the young heroine whose life is charged with magic.

Collector Ronald Ollie to discuss major gift to SLAM and related exhibition | The St. Louis American

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019African American Art

“We have five generations of abstract artists represented in this exhibition,” said Alexis Assam, 2018-2019 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow and co-curator of “The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection” just ahead of the exhibition’s opening at Saint Louis Art Museum back in September. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A tour led by Assam and exhibition […]

‘Soul of a Nation’ Gives Black Artists Long-Overdue Visibility | SF Weekly

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019African American Art, Black Art

A new exhibit at the de Young on loan from the Tate Modern showcases decades of Black American art.

Baltimore Museum Of Art Will Only Acquire Works By Women | Forbes

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019African American Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art has announced that in 2020, only artwork created by women will be added to its permanent collection. In a bold move to reduce the gender imbalance in the museum’s collection, every single piece acquired next year, whether through a purchase or donation, will have been created by a woman. Big […]

Intersectionality Matters Podcast Exposes Attacks on Black Motherhood | Colorlines

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019Black Motherhood, Violence Against Women

Host Kimberlé Crenshaw: “It wasn’t the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution nor the Stars and Stripes that gave birth to America; it was the Black vagina that laid the golden egg.”

Englewood Artist Connects Residents Across Chicago Segregation Lines | WBEZ

November 7, 2019November 7, 2019African American Art, Black Art

Englewood visual artist Tonika Lewis Johnson’s “Folded Map Project” connects Chicagoans with corresponding addresses on the North and South sides through photography and conversation. Reset sits down with Johnson to hear the latest on the project and its current expansion to the West Side. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Bianca Martin, WBEZ Featured Image Full article @ WBEZ

When the white establishment ignored these black photographers, the Kamoinge collective was born | Timeline

October 22, 2019December 17, 2019African American Art, African American History ...

Based in 1960s Harlem, they challenged the way stories of black lives were told, and who got to tell them

Why MLK Believed Jazz Was the Perfect Soundtrack for Civil Rights | Daily JSTOR

October 17, 2019July 22, 2020African American Art, African American Music ...

Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

A recently found Ben Enwonwu painting has sold at seven times its valuation for $1.4 million | Quartz Africa

October 17, 2019December 19, 2019African American Art, Black Art ...

When a man found the almost forgotten portrait of his mother in their family house in Texas, he had no idea just how life-changing his discovery would be. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The portrait, Christine, was by one of the most revered African artists of the 20th century, Ben Enwonwu. The captivating sitter was Christine Elizabeth Davis, […]

The Artist Catching Fire at 85 | The Wall Street Journal

August 12, 2019November 20, 2019African American Art, Black Art ...

After six decades quietly building a respected career, Sam Gilliam’s paintings are suddenly selling for over $2 million