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Culture Type | The Month in Black Art: Here's What Happened in July 2025

Culture Type | The Month in Black Art: Here’s What Happened in July 2025

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...
Conserving Black Modernism: New Grants Support Preservation of Historic Buildings Designed by Black Architects

Conserving Black Modernism: New Grants Support Preservation of Historic Buildings Designed by Black Architects

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...
New National Trust Grants Are Preserving African American History at 27 Sites Connected to Boston Artists, Architect Paul Williams, and Poet Lucille Clifton

New National Trust Grants Are Preserving African American History at 27 Sites Connected to Boston Artists, Architect Paul Williams, and Poet Lucille Clifton

  NEW GRANTS ARE HELPING TO PRESERVE 27 U.S. sites dedicated to African American history. Sites connected to Boston artists; Los Angeles architect Paul Williams; and the historic homes performer and activist Paul Robeson, blues legend Muddy Waters, inventor Lewis Latimer, and poet Lucille Clifton, are among the beneficiaries. The support from the National Trust...