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Latest News in Black Art: Henry Taylor Show Will Inaugurate Hauser & Wirth Paris, Sonya Clark Touring Exhibition, Plus Updates at LA's Destination Crenshaw

Latest News in Black Art: Henry Taylor Show Will Inaugurate Hauser & Wirth Paris, Sonya Clark Touring Exhibition, Plus Updates at LA’s Destination Crenshaw

  Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   HENRY TAYLOR, Untitled, 2023. | © Henry Taylor. Photo by Keith Lubow   GALLERIES Hauser & Wirth announced its new gallery in Paris, France, is opening Oct. 26. The inaugural exhibition will be a solo show...
Museums Recognize Juneteenth: Newly Established National Holiday is 'Celebration of Resilience, Freedom Deferred But Found'

Museums Recognize Juneteenth: Newly Established National Holiday is ‘Celebration of Resilience, Freedom Deferred But Found’

  FOR BLACK AMERICANS, transformational change has always been on the horizon, just out of reach. Long after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation with an effective date of Jan. 1, 1863, and the Civil War ended two-and-a-half years later in April 1965, it was another two months before Union troops arrived in Galveston,...
Latest News in Black Art: Julie Mehretu Benefit Auction Sets New Record, Vanessa German Joins Kasmin, Gordon Parks Documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat & More

Latest News in Black Art: Julie Mehretu Benefit Auction Sets New Record, Vanessa German Joins Kasmin, Gordon Parks Documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat & More

  Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   vanessa german in her exhibition “MATRIX 174/i come to do violence to the lie” (2016), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conn. | Photo by Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art   Representation Kasmin announced...