National News Articles

(May/1/2017 thru November/20/2017)

  • NEW! (Posted 11/20/2017) Auction Record: 2009 Painting by Titus Kaphar Sets New Benchmark at Phillips New York; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 11/20/2017) Auction Record: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Painting Sells for More Than $1.5 million at Sotheby’s, Shattering Artist’s Previous High Mark; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 11/5/2017) Culture Talk: Arnold Lehman on Curating ‘American African American,’ a Selling Exhibition at Phillips London; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 11/5/2017) DORI TINSTALL WANTS TO DECOLONIZE DESIGN EDUCATION; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 10/24/2017) Frieze London Highlights: Performances by Donna Kukama and Nástio Mosquito, Paintings by Kerry James Marshall and Titus Kaphar, Hannah Black Enters Tate Collection; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 10/7/2017) Augustus Casely-Hayford Named Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 10/7/2017) How the Hubbub of Paris Drove Dubuffet; VIEW MORE INFO (Video)
  • NEW! (Posted 10/7/2017) THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM TO BREAK GROUND IN LATE FALL 2018 FOR ITS NEW HOME, DESIGNED BY DAVID ADJAYE; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 10/7/2017) New Season, New Art: Fall Begins with 45 Notable Exhibitions Featuring Works by Black Artists; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 10/7/2017) Kenyan fashion designers respond to not being “African enough”; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 10/7/2017) FACING POVERTY, ACADEMICS TURN TO SEX WORK AND SLEEPING IN CARS; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 10/7/2017) TAYLOR RENEE ALDRIDGE SUCCESS DOESN’T ALWAYS COME WITH FEELING OF SELF WORTH; VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 10/7/2017) NEW FLOOR AND WALL BASED SCULPTURES AND QUILTS BY HANK-WILLIS THOMAS ON VIEW AT BEN BROWN FINE ARTS VIEW MORE INFO
  • NEW! (Posted 9/19/2017) THE BLACK SCHOOL HARLEM; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 8/7/2017) Artist Titus Kaphar makes paintings and sculptures that wrestle with the struggles of the past; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 8/7/2017) Ebony McKinney, Tireless Advocate for the Arts, Dies Unexpectedly; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 7/7/2017) Galleries to Know In New York; VIEW GALLERIES, MORE GALLERIES
  • (Posted 6/10/2017) Nigeria’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion Challenges Colonial Narratives; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 6/10/2017) “THAT IS WHO WE ARE, AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL”: THE RADIANT VISION OF THE TUNNELVISION ARTISTS; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 6/10/2017) We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 6/10/2017) Naomi Beckwith is Chairing New Curatorial Leadership Summit at 2018 Armory Show; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 6/8/2017) Looking for Langston at Victoria Miro; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 6/8/2017) Sotheby’s Posthumous Sale of 3 Paintings by Barkley L. Hendricks Yields Artist Record; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 5/18/2017) Why Mark Bradford Is the Artist of the Moment; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 5/12/2017) Artist and Citizen: Mark Bradford Presents His Democratic Vision at Venice Biennale; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 5/12/2017)  The influence of the British Black Art movement; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 5/12/2017)  The Argument Made By The Absence: On Whiteness, Polychromy, And Diversity In Classics; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 5/6/2017)  Mithu Basu: Artrepreneur & Dolna; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/28/2017) ‘Remix’ or plagiarism? Artists battle over a Chicago mural of Michelle Obama; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/28/2017)  Clementine Hunter, London; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/22/2017) Frieze Talks New York: 2017 Program; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/28/2017)  Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; VIEW MORE INFO (Video)
  • (Posted 4/22/2017)  Kentridge opens Johannesburg space for artists to learn by failing; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/22/2017)  A New Grammar for Blackness intricate drawings of Toyin Ojih Odutola; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/22/2017)  Visually Speaking: Lina Viktor and Amy Sall by Schomburg Center; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/22/2017)  The Lenny Interview: Kimberly Drew, aka @MuseumMammy Meet the Instagram Star Elevating Black Contemporary Art; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/22/2017)  Artist Profile: Devin Kenny; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/22/2017) MOCA Los Angeles Names Amanda Hunt Director of Education and Public Programming; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) L.A. assemblage artists featured in Swann African-American Fine Art Auction; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) Who the F*$& Is Jackson Pollock; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) Henry Taylor’s March Cover of Art in America Magazine is Inspired by 1968 Photo of Cicely Tyson and Miles Davis; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) Meleko Mokgosi. 2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) REMIX: Columbia Museum of Art…Wow!; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) The Black Years Series by Artist William Rhodes; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) Curator Rujeko Hockley is Joining the Whitney Museum; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) Arthur Jafa’s show presents a powerful duality that epitomizes race relations in the US; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) Bronx Museum Won’t Get Loan of Art From Cuba; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/13/2017) Illustrator Kadir Nelson Envisions Martin Luther King Jr. for Cover of The New Yorker; VIEW MORE INFO
  • (Posted 4/1/2017) Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till; VIEW MORE INFO