Culture Talk: New Orleans Gallery Owner Stella Jones on 20 Years in the Art...
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View ArticleBackstory: Nina Chanel Abney Revisits Her First Major Painting, ‘Class of 2007’
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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
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View ArticleCulture Talk: Courtney Willis Blair on Ryan Lee Gallery’s Representation of...
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View ArticleCulture Talk: Curator Adrienne Edwards on Her New Exhibition ‘Blackness in...
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View ArticleCulture Talk: Curator Lauren Haynes on Bringing the Colorful, Abstract...
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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’
NINA CHANEL ABNEY, “Class of 2007,” 2007 (acrylic on canvas). ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING PAINTINGS in the exhibition “30 Americans” is by Nina Chanel Abney. It’s a compelling work, depicting her MFA...
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: Curator Jonathan Walz on the Rich History Found in the Archives...
Portrait of Alma Thomas painted by Laura Wheeler Waring (1947). | Smithsonian American Art Museum RESEARCH IS ONGOING for a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Alma Thomas...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Andrew Perchuk on How the Getty Research Institute’s African...
Artist Betye Saar, 1970 THE J. PAUL GETTY TRUST dedicated resources to “recover the historical record of art in Southern California” in 2002. Nearly a decade later, the endeavor led to Pacific...
View ArticleCulture Talk: Collector Pamela Joyner on Why She Joined the Getty’s Board and...
Collector and Philanthropist Pamela J. Joyner THE J. PAUL GETTY TRUST announced the addition of Pamela J. Joyner to its board of trustees in February 2017. The influential philanthropist and art...
View ArticleBackstory: Art Collector Kenneth Montague on Acquiring ‘Blood (Donald...
“Blood (Donald Formey),” 1975 by Barkley L. Hendricks “I’m most concerned about Barkley’s legacy now that he’s gone. I want more and more people to understand what all the hoopla’s about. He was a...
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