Painter Charles McGee is a Detroit icon whose art can be seen everywhere from the Detroit Institute of Art to the People Mover’s Broadway station.
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Basquiat Painting Sells for $110.5 Million, Becoming Most Expensive Work by US Artist at Auction – Hyperallergic
The Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezaw who bought the 1982 painting last night at Sotheby’s New York posted multiple images of himself posing with his treasure on Twitter and Instagram.
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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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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry exhibition review – a sumptuous symphony in black
This retrospective is a stone-cold stunner which proudly insists on the place of African Americans in the American artistic imagination, using the tropes of exclusionary imagery to new, more moral ends.
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Oh, the humanity: Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series,’ reunited
Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series,” unfolding across 60 painted panels each less than a foot square, is often compared to a film.
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An artist refashions the past: Whitfield Lovell’s ‘Kin’
Whitfield Lovell’s work is not about the African American experience; it is about his own.
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Thelma Johnson Streat’s mural to be displayed at Smithsonian African-American museum
Work by a renowned Yakima-born artist — the late Thelma Johnson Streat — again has taken center stage, this time at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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Art That Lifts The Lid on Today’s Black America
Artist Sanford Biggers goes head-to-head on issues like Black Lives Matter, race visibility, and history with poet and friend Saul Williams.
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Celebrating Artist: Jerry Jordan | Painter
He counts such artist as Henry O Tanner, John S. Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla and Aaron Douglas just to name a few, as his major artistic influences.
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