On View: ‘Shacks, Stories and Spirit: Beverly Buchanan’s Art of Home’ at Georgia Museum of Art, Her Work ‘Speaks to South in Intimate, Powerful Way’
BEVERLY BUCHANAN (American, 1940-2015), “Shot Gun House,” 1992 (mixed media, 14 1/4 × 10 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches). | Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Ann Oliver in loving memory and honor of her husband Ted Oliver. 2019.321 On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions THROUGH HER UNIQUE PRACTICE,...
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...
Curator Shawnya L. Harris is Planning a Major Museum Retrospective of Emma Amos, Forthcoming in 2021
AN UNPRECEDENTED RETROSPECTIVE dedicated to Emma Amos (1937-2020) has been in the works for five years and is forthcoming in 2021 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. Shawnya Harris is curating “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey.” Amos was a progressive painter. From the beginning, she explored and challenged...
