THE NEW NEGRO The Life of Alain Locke By Jeffrey C. Stewart 932 pp. Oxford University Press. $39.95. Alain LeRoy Locke’s drive to revolutionize black culture was fueled in no small part by his sense of self-importance. “When a man has something to be conceited over,” he wrote, “I call it self-respect.” Unlike many of […]
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Yasiin Bey, Formerly Known as Mos Def, Is Opening a Gallery in the South Bronx to Fuse Art and Hip-Hop | artnet News
The project is a collaboration with advertising executive Free Richardson
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Essence and Queen Latifah Unveil $20 Million Fund for Artists of Color | Colorlines
The Essence Creators and Makers Fund will support artists who make content for women of color.
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Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers? | The New York Times
How a small but influential group of black gallerists is correcting history.
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An Orchestra of Hope for Baltimore’s Future | AFRO
Now in its 11th year serving our students, OrchKids is a year-round, during- and after-school music program designed to create social change and nurture promising futures for young people who live in Baltimore City’s neighborhoods.
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Little Girl Mesmerized by Michelle Obama Portrait Thinks She’s ‘a Queen’ | The Cut
Turns out that adorable little girl who stood open-mouthed in front of Michelle Obama’s official portrait didn’t know she was looking at a former First Lady — she thought she was looking at a queen.
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Whose Nation? The Art of Black Power | The New York Review of Books
“Soul of a Nation,” which originated at the Tate Modern in London, features some 170 works made by black artists between 1963 and 1983.
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How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ | The New York Times
“It’s like reading a fairy tale book. I see the names of beauty schools and men’s clubs and taverns, and I think, ‘What does that place look like?’”
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Eloquent Photo-portraits of 60 Contemporary Artists of Color | Hyperallergic
Elia Alba’s photo-portraits act as a kind of measure of the intimacy she has earned with her subjects.
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How the black radical female artists of the ’60s and ’70s made art that speaks to today’s politics | Los Angeles Times
All of it points to the unique issues black women artists faced (and continue to face) as women and artists in a society in which race plays a defining role.
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