The latest issue of Aperture focuses on Africa and features strong, colorful images by the Kenyan photographer Mimi Cherono Ng’ok.
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The most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition – Timeline
Unfortunately, little of her work survives.
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Renowned Detroit artist Charles McGee, 92, designs 11-story mural – Michigan Radio
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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Imagining the Portraits of African American Women Erased from History – Hyperallergic
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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Contact High: Jamel Shabazz On Shooting The Subway – Mass Appeal
“Every squeeze of the shutter release had to be on point.”
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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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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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