Artist Raymond Saunders has died, Next Ford Foundation President announced, Prospect New Orleans paused, Amy Sherald canceled Smithsonian exhibition MAGAZINES | July/August: Works by self-taught Alabama artist Bill Traylor (circa 1853-1949) grace the latest cover of The Magazine Antiques. The image captures an installation of eight drawings by Traylor in the New York apartment...
Betye Saar with “Drifting Toward Twilight,” 2023. | Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles. Photo © David Butow WITH HER CENTENNIAL ON THE HORIZON, Betye Saar formed a scholarly committee charged with “preserving, interpreting, and advancing” her artistic legacy, stewarding her vast body of work, and supporting access to her extensive...
AMY SHERALD, “A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt),” 2022 (oil on linen, 96 1/8 × 130 1/8 × 2 1/2 inches / 244.1 × 330.2 × 6.35 cm.). | Courtesy the Tymure Collection. © Amy Sherald. Photo by Joseph Hyde On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions AN EXPANSIVE VIEW of the...
In the trailer introducing “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, exhibition curator Rujeko Hockley said, “Hopefully in walking through the exhibition and seeing the paintings… you might have that feeling of being kind of overwhelmed, positively, by the vastness, the breadth, the range of the American people.” | Video by...
Founder’s Church of Religious Science, Los Angeles, Calif. | Photo by Mark Clennon, Courtesy African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund FOUNDER’S CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE in Los Angeles was designed by renowned architect Paul R. Williams in 1960. Featuring a white, curvilinear facade fronted by an ornate concrete block wall, its “sleek, elliptical design...
CULTURE TYPE reports on new appointments of Black curators and arts leaders to gauge institutional representation, with an emphasis on art museums. Museum leaders, curators, and educators shape the management and intellectual direction of institutions, determine the art visitors see and the programming they experience and, by extension, whether audiences of color feel welcome and...
Los Angeles, Calif., May 17, 2025: From left, Hammer Museum Director Zoë Ryan, Honoree Lauren Halsey, and Thelma Golden at the 20th annual Hammer Museum Gala In The Garden at the Hammer Museum. | Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for The Hammer Museum IN LOS ANGELES, artist Lauren Halsey (b. 1987) was honored recently...
Lindsay Adams, Ranti Bam, and Salim Green joined new galleries; Studio Museum in Harlem opening updates; Shakeup at Afro Brazil Museum; new Art Basel Awards; Suzanne Jackson at SFMOMA, and more TIFF MASSEY, “Baby Bling,” 2023 (steel beads, woven rope, and brass). | Photo: Detroit Institute of Arts ACQUISITIONS | June 2: The...
“Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950-2000,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (March 13-June 30, 2025). | Courtesy Centre Pompidou On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions A NEXUS OF ART, CULTURE, and geopolitical history, “Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950-2000” at Centre Pompidou explores the presence of Black artists in...
MICHAEL ARMITAGE, “Don’t Worry There Will Be More,” 2024 (oil on Lubugo bark cloth, 67 x 87 inches / 170.2 x 221 cm). | © Michael Armitage, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions THREE YEARS AFTER Michael Armitage (b. 1984) joined David Zwirner, his first solo...
Christine Sun Kim gives a tour of “Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night,” her mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and first major museum exhibition. After graduate school, Kim worked in the education department at the Whitney Museum where she helped develop a program of ASL (American Sign...
MALCOLM BAILEY, “Untitled 1969,” 1969 (acrylic on composition board, 48 × 71 15/16 inches / 121.9 × 182.7 cm). | © artist or artist’s estate, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund. 69.77 Reaching diverse audiences at art museums includes providing accessible programming for Deaf...
AARON DOUGLAS (American, 1899-1979, “Harriet Tubman,” 1931 (oil on canvas, 54 x 72 inches). | Bennett College, Greensboro, NC. © 2025 Heirs of Aaron Douglas / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY On the occasion of Juneteenth, a look at a groundbreaking exhibition exploring what is now believed to be largest...
Installation view of “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y. (March 23-Aug. 2, 2025). | Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Courtesy MoMA On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions KNOWN FOR HIS INVENTIVE METHODS, Jack Whitten (1939-2018) constantly evolved his materials and techniques. Exploring the possibilities of paint, he made casts...
Brittany Webb. | Photo by Marco Hill, Courtesy MFAH THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON (MFAH) announced the appointment of Brittany Webb to the role of curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. Webb is joining MFAH from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, where she is the...
TOP NEW YORK MUSEUMS are presenting exhibitions of major African American artists this spring and summer with most on view through fall 2025. Solo exhibitions include the largest-ever surveys of Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim Museum, Amy Sherald at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Jack Whitten at the Museum of Modern Art. The...
International curator Koyo Kouoh died, longstanding Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden fired, artist and curator Evangeline J. Montgomery died, David C. Driskell Prize went to artist Alison Saar Artist and Curator Evangeline J. Montgomery (1930-2025). | Courtesy the artist, Photo by Erwin Thamm LIVES | May 1: Artist, curator, and arts administrator Evangeline...
ARTIST HENRY TAYLOR IN LOUIS VUITTON. | For Vogue’s special Met Gala issue, Henry Taylor painted a cover portrait of Met Gala Co-Chair Pharrell Williams, men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton. The exhibition “James Jarvaise & Henry Taylor: Sometimes a Straight Line Has to Be Crooked” opens at Hauser & Wirth in Downtown Los Angeles...
Judia S. Jackson. | Courtesy Barnes Foundation IN PHILADELPHIA, PA., the Barnes Foundation named Judia S. Jackson to the role of deputy director for human resources and chief culture officer. Jackson recently served as chief people and culture officer at Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts. The Barnes appointment was announced May 28. Jackson officially...
Malcolm X reading an article about the Nation of Islam written and photographed by Gordon Parks that was published in the May 31, 1963, edition of Life magazine. The man behind Malcolm holds a newspaper reporting on the shooting of seven unarmed Black men by Los Angeles police. | Photo: Robert Flora/Corbis MALCOLM X...
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