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.
View MoreHow Black Modern Artists Defied a Singular Narrative in 1971 – Hyperallergic
1971: A Year in the Life of Color studies two exhibitions essential to the ongoing relationship between black American artists and modernism.
View MoreNo More Jezebel or Mammy: New Museum Art Exhibit Shatters Stereotypical Depictions of Black Women – Atlanta Black Star
A new art exhibit at Louisiana’s Alexandria Museum of Art is breaking down the stereotype of the strong Black woman, thanks to contributions from Black female artists.
View MoreFrom Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora
SUMMIT, NJ — Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.
View MoreThis $1.4 Million “Bird” Makes an African-American Art Collection Soar to New Heights
With his first major contemporary acquisition, the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new director is reinvigorating the museum.
View MoreKerry 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.
View MoreAn artist refashions the past: Whitfield Lovell’s ‘Kin’
Whitfield Lovell’s work is not about the African American experience; it is about his own.
View MoreCelebrating 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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