Lubaina Himid. | Photo © Adama Jalloh A key figure in the British Black Arts Movement, Lubaina Himid will be the third Black artist in a row to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale THE BRITISH COUNCIL announced Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid (b. 1954) will represent Great Britain at the 61st...
Lot 2: MICHAEL ESCOFFERY, Portrait of Harry Belafonte, 2012 (acrylic on canvas). Signed by Escoffery. | Estimate $400-$600. SOLD for $585 fees included CONCERT AND MOVIE POSTERS. Portraits of Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) by various artists. Signed “Belafonte at Carnegie Hall” album. Kennedy Center Honors award. Correspondence with President John F. Kennedy, President Bill Clinton,...
LOS ANGELES-AREA MUSEUMS are presenting an array of exhibitions featuring works by Black artists. Exhibitions are exploring Black art history through the lives and work of key African American artists and cultural figures, including Ben Caldwell, Alice Coltrane, George Washington Carver, and Nellie Mae Rowe, each of whom deserve to be more widely known. The...
ANN JOHNSON, “Egyptian Collar,” 2002 (mixed media: beads, regulation goal and backboard, found objects, chain net, 48 inches long). | © Ann Johnson. Collection of Elliot Perry, Memphis, Tenn. THE FREIGHTED SYMBOLISM of basketball, its intrinsic connection to the Black community, and the elements used to play the sport (ball, hoop, and net) have...
Anne Collins Smith’s appointment is historic. She is the first Black person to head NOMA’s curatorial department THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART (NOMA) announced a new chief curator on Feb. 11. Anne Collins Smith has taken on the newly created role, leading the museum’s entire curatorial department. Collins is a local hire with...
Marlon Mullen at work in the NIAD studio. | Courtesy the artist and NIAD A PORTRAIT of a Black male painter in his studio graced the cover of Artforum in January 2017. The issue included a review of “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” a 35-year retrospective of the artist. In the painting, Kerry James Marshall...
RICHARD MAYHEW, “Minuet,” 2002 (oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches / 50.8 x 60.96 cm). | ©️Estate of Richard Mayhew, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions THE LUMINOUS LANDSCAPES of Richard Mayhew (1924-2024) evoke a sense of spiritual transcendence. Mayhew pictured abstracted and imagined places that evince...
Queen Tahj working on the Super Bowl logo in her studio. The New Orleans artist is known for her intricate, hand-sewn beadwork. | Courtesy NFL THE OFFICIAL ART of Super Bowl LIX is hand-crafted with beadwork. For the first time, the National Football League (NFL) commissioned an artist outside of the organization to create...
CURRENTLY ON VIEW in New York, galleries are presenting a rare look at six decades of paintings by Felrath Hines, Henry Taylor’s venture into printmaking, and the first U.S. solo exhibition of Ethiopian Jewish artist Tigist Yoseph Ron. Solo exhibitions of Barkley L. Hendricks and Miles Greenberg also on view. The shows are closing in...
Lot 51: SIR FRANK BOWLING, OBE RA (b. 1934), “Profile,” 2013 (acrylic on canvas with marouflage, 737 x 914 mm / 29 x 38 inches). | Estimate $50,000-$75,000. SOLD for ($32,000 Hammer Price) $40,000 fees included WORKS BY FRANK BOWLING, Norman Lewis, Alma Thomas, Beauford Delaney, Jack Whitten, and dozens more Black artists are...
The Best Black Art Books of 2024 explore many artists and themes, including Alvin Ailey, Elizabeth Catlett, Tschabalala Self, Sargent Claude Johnson, the Harlem Renaissance, African photographers, Caribbean makers, and queer designers SOME OF THE BEST illustrated Black art books published over the past year highlight the work of women artists and reflect the rich...
In January, artist and gallery founder Alonzo Davis died, Made in L.A. artists and USA Fellows were announced, Christina Kimeze and Martha Jackson Jarvis joined new galleries, Africa Center welcomed a new leader, discovery of rare William H. Dorsey painting was reported, and more MARIO JOYCE, “Fragmented Memory,” 2024 (soil, vintage collage, oil paint,...
Alisa Chiles is the new Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Decorative Arts, 1890 to the Present at the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts. | Photo by Sandra Sellars, © 2024 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (VMFA) in Richmond, Va., has built a prized collection of...
THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS of San Francisco marked the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend with a new installation, bringing attention to iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), and the uncertain times in which he became a national figure. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” (1990), a bronze portrait bust by Elizabeth...
THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA PS1, museums are presenting important exhibitions of African American artists. The following shows explore Alvin Ailey, Elizabeth Catlett, Belle da Costa Greene, Marlon Mullen, Latinx artists, design interpretations of ‘Making Home,’ and more. (Exhibitions...
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...
From left: Ryan N. Dennis. | Photo by Charles A. Smith; Melissa McDonnell Luján. | Photo by Fernanda Varela Rivera. Both Images Courtesy CAMH Ryan N. Dennis and Melissa McDonnell Luján appointed co-directors of Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, effective January 2025 NEW LEADERSHIP is coming to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). Senior Curator...
DOCUMENTA 16 will take place under the artistic direction of Naomi Beckwith. An American curator, scholar, and art historian, Beckwith is Deputy Director and Jennifer & David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York. Documenta is one of the most prominent art shows in the world, rivaled only...
Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Lorraine O’Grady. | Photo by Lelanie Foster, Courtesy the artist and Mariane Ibrahim gallery LIVES Conceptual Artist Lorraine O’Grady Has Died at 90 New York artist Lorraine O’Grady (1934-2024) died at her home on Nov. 13....
Nikki Giovanni. | Photo © Nikki Giovanni A PROFOUND VOICE and insightful wordsmith has passed on. Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024), the American poet, professor, public intellectual, and key figure in the Black Arts Movement, died in Blacksburg, Va., on Nov. 9. She was 81 years old. Virginia C. Fowler, Giovanni’s wife, told the New York...
New Obama Presidential Center Artist Commissions Include Lindsay Adams Painting Inspired by Langston Hughes Poem
Apr 26, 2025
Turner Prize 2025 Shortlist of Four British Artists Includes Nnena Kalu and Rene Matić
Apr 24, 2025
Diallo Simon-Ponte is Joining Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, as Inaugural Sam Gilliam Assistant Curator of Artist Programs
Apr 23, 2025
On View: ‘Alberta Whittle: Towards a Motherful Loving Praxis, We Cast Seeds Into the Darkness’ at Nicola Vassell Gallery in New York
Apr 19, 2025
Jack Shainman Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Faith Ringgold, ‘Artist Played Significant Role in Shaping Culture of American Art’
Apr 17, 2025
