Dream-Like Artworks: Minnie Evans’ Divine Inspiration
Folk Art, Surrealist, Visionary, Americana, call it what you will. Minnie Evans’ (1892—1987) dream-like artworks speak of another world, a world...
Rachel Witte 25 February 2023
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Black American Artists in North Carolina
Are you curious about Black American artists from or working in the state of North Carolina? Well, look no further. Here is a (short) list to get you...
Rachel Witte 25 February 2023
Last Chance to See: Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces
Theaster Gates is known for his urban revival and commitment to public service through the acquisition of neglected buildings around the...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 1 February 2023
A Return to Just Above Midtown Gallery at MoMA
This season’s crop of museum exhibitions around New York City includes the highly-anticipated retrospective of Linda Goode Bryant’s experimental...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 5 December 2022
Alma Thomas. The Tale of an Extraordinary Life at Columbus Museum
This year, the Columbus Museum in Columbus, GA, USA, presented two major retrospectives. They shed light on Alma Thomas’ exceptional life and...
Carlotta Mazzoli 27 September 2022
Henry Ossawa Tanner, An African-American Artistic Pioneer
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), the first African-American artist who became internationally successful, was known for his beautiful religious...
Alexandra Kiely 27 September 2022
Robert S. Duncanson: African-American Painter in the Spotlight
African-American landscape painter Robert S. Duncanson made headlines in January 2021. This happened when his Landscape with Rainbow was featured...
Alexandra Kiely 17 August 2022
Brothers in Arts: Afro-American Artists Charles White and Kerry J. Marshall
In 2019 the auction house Sotheby’s sold Kerry James Marshall’s painting Vignette 19 for $16 million. That’s a lot of money for a work by a...
Michel Rutten 25 February 2021
The Charles White Retrospective — Only the Beginning
Charles White was a prolific artist. The retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which opened on October 7 and will be...
Howard Schwartz 11 October 2018
