Culture Talk: Lorna Simpson on Capturing the Cast of ’12 Years a Slave’ for W...
RACE, IDENTITY, MEMORY AND HISTORY figure prominently in Lorna Simpson‘s practice, making her a natural choice for W magazine which reached out to the photographer to capture the cast of the...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Swann’s Nigel Freeman on Early African American Art
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ART MARKET experienced a sea change seven years ago when Swann Auction Galleries began dedicating sales to African American fine art. Few auction records existed for African...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Duke Professor Richard J. Powell on Archibald Motley
THE NASHER MUSEUM OF ART at Duke University is infused with Chicago jazz and Paris blues. Since January 19, the museum has been exhibiting 45 paintings by Chicago artist Archibald J. Motley Jr....
View ArticleCulture Talk: Bruce Talamon on Photographing David Hammons
FOUR DECADES AGO, WHILE DAVID HAMMONS was working in his Los Angeles studio making body prints and assemblages, and developing ideas for installations and performances, Bruce W. Talamon was nearby...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Amalia Amaki on Collector Richard A. Long
BEFORE SETTLING IN ATLANTA in 1968, Richard A. Long (1927-2013) visited Alain Locke’s home and viewed his art collection, sat for portraits in Paris with Beauford Delaney and directed the College...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Lauren Haynes on ‘Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and...
A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE STUDIO MUSEUM in Harlem was inspired by the pluck of a young Chicago entrepreneur. When positive images of black people were absent from America’s most popular household...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Franklin Sirmans on Leading the Pérez Art Museum in Miami
SIX WEEKS INTO HIS TENURE as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Franklin Sirmans is adapting to his new role at the museum and new expectations for Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously, as...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Courtney Willis Blair on Ryan Lee Gallery’s Representation of...
AT THE REAR OF RYAN LEE GALLERY in New York, a 1966 painting by Emma Amos casually sits on the floor leaning against the wall between works by other gallery artists. Blending figuration and Abstract...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Curator Adrienne Edwards on Her New Exhibition ‘Blackness in...
PACE GALLERY IS PRESENTING a few of Adrienne Edwards’s “favorite things.” It’s how the curator describes works by black contemporary artists about whom she writes and has a social and intellectual...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Curator Lauren Haynes on Bringing the Colorful, Abstract...
ALMA THOMAS, “Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset,” 1970 (acrylic on canvas). | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist; Courtesy Studio Museum in Harlem AT A TIME WHEN MOST ARTISTS are...
View ArticleCulture Talk: New Orleans Gallery Owner Stella Jones on 20 Years in the Art...
Gallery owner Stella Jones with “Haiti Demain,” 1987 (mixed-media collage on canvas) by Lois Mailou Jones. | Photo by Victoria L. Valentine NEW ORLEANS — FOR TWO DECADES, the Central Business...
View ArticleBackstory: Nina Chanel Abney Revisits Her First Major Painting, ‘Class of 2007’
ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING PAINTINGS in the exhibition “30 Americans” is by Nina Chanel Abney. It’s a compelling work, depicting her MFA class at Parsons School of Design in New York. The artist is a...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Ian Berry on New Alma Thomas Exhibition Catalog, an...
ALMA THOMAS, “End of Autumn,” 1968 (acrylic and graphite on canvas). | Collection of Richard Grossman and Adam Sheffer; Courtesy Studio Museum in Harlem EXPLAINING HER CHOICE to focus on brightly...
View ArticleCulture Talk: British Painter Hurvin Anderson on Personal and Political...
HURVIN ANDERSON, “Rootstock,” 2016 (acrylic and oil on canvas). | Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, Hurvin Anderson was staying at a hotel in Montago Bay when he spotted some...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Kellie Jones Discusses ‘South of Pico,’ Her Recently Published...
Kellie Jones, author of “South of Pico.” A DECADE AGO, Kellie Jones set out to write a book about African American artists in Los Angeles. The focus of her research was the 1960s and ’70s, a period...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Arnold Lehman on Curating ‘American African American,’ a...
AMONG THE HALLMARKS of Arnold Lehman’s nearly two-decade tenure as director of the Brooklyn Museum was his focus on community engagement, popular culture, and the visibility of African American...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Franklin Sirmans on Leading the Pérez Art Museum in Miami
SIX WEEKS INTO HIS TENURE as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Franklin Sirmans is adapting to his new role at the museum and new expectations for Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously, as...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Courtney Willis Blair on Ryan Lee Gallery’s Representation of...
AT THE REAR OF RYAN LEE GALLERY in New York, a 1966 painting by Emma Amos casually sits on the floor leaning against the wall between works by other gallery artists. Blending figuration and Abstract...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Curator Adrienne Edwards on Her New Exhibition ‘Blackness in...
PACE GALLERY IS PRESENTING a few of Adrienne Edwards’s “favorite things.” It’s how the curator describes works by black contemporary artists about whom she writes and has a social and intellectual...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Curator Lauren Haynes on Bringing the Colorful, Abstract...
ALMA THOMAS, “Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset,” 1970 (acrylic on canvas). | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist; Courtesy Studio Museum in Harlem AT A TIME WHEN MOST ARTISTS are...
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