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Latest News in Black Art: New University Museum Directors, Infiniti Award for Photog Renell Medrano,  Arvie Smith Among Guggenheim Fellows, Honoring Hank Aaron

Latest News in Black Art: New University Museum Directors, Infiniti Award for Photog Renell Medrano, Arvie Smith Among Guggenheim Fellows, Honoring Hank Aaron

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Cécile Fromont | Courtesy Harvard HAA   APPOINTMENTS First Faculty Director at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery Cécile Fromont (above) is joining Harvard University as a new professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the...
Viewing Rooms: 10 Frieze London Exhibitors Presenting Solo Shows by Black Artists

Viewing Rooms: 10 Frieze London Exhibitors Presenting Solo Shows by Black Artists

  WORKS BY BLACK ARTISTS are showcased in many of the gallery presentations at the London edition of the Frieze art fair this year. Several galleries mounted solo shows focused on artists such as Theaster Gates, Faith Ringgold, Lauren Halsey, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Ben Enwonwu (1917-1994). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artworks were presented...
Curatorial Vision of Black Women is Shaping Frieze and 1-54 African Contemporary Art Fairs in London This Week

Curatorial Vision of Black Women is Shaping Frieze and 1-54 African Contemporary Art Fairs in London This Week

Eva Langret, Artistic Director of Frieze London   IN LONDON THIS WEEK, the vision of Black women is shaping the 1-54 London and Frieze London art fairs. Both are underway with hybrid online and in-person formats this season. Eva Langret is the new artistic director of Frieze London. She tapped Zoé Whitley to curate a...