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Tales from The b.a.SKET: Black Art Sketches for the Contemporary Art Lover

Trelani Michelle — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:09:22 +0000

Tales from The b.a.SKET: Black Art Sketches for the Contemporary Art Lover

By D. Amari Jackson

This week, we reach into the b.a.SKET and pull out David Hammons’s The Door…

Ironically, schoolgirl Linda Carol Brown attended the excellent all-Black school, … Read the rest

Tales from The b.a.SKET: Black Art Sketches for the Contemporary Art Lover

Trelani Michelle — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 09:28:29 +0000

Tales from The b.a.SKET: Black Art Sketches for the Contemporary Art Lover

By D. Amari Jackson

This week, we reach into the b.a.SKET and pull out Hope Imprisoned by Charles White…

Charles White was sick.

In 1944, the talented … Read the rest

Amending Black Narratives To Expand American Art History: Seismic Change In Artist Empowerment, Honest Scholarship, Gallery Representation, And Museum Leadership Fuels Burgeoning Market

baiadmin — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:23:24 +0000

Amending Black Narratives To Expand American Art History: Seismic Change In Artist Empowerment, Honest Scholarship, Gallery Representation, And Museum Leadership Fuels Burgeoning Market

By Natasha Gural

More than half a century after the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1969 disputed … Read the rest

Art of the Crossover: Jewels, Shackles, and Black Gallery Perspectives on Artists Leaving for Whiter Pastures

baiadmin — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:29:28 +0000

Art of the Crossover: Jewels, Shackles, and Black Gallery

Perspectives on Artists Leaving for Whiter Pastures

by D. Amari Jackson

…thinking about a pop record, somethin’ made for the station

for a whole new relation

ship of a … Read the rest

Regenerative Figures: Artistic Conversations of Conteh, White, and Hendricks

baiadmin — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:10:57 +0000

Regenerative Figures: Artistic Conversations of Conteh, White, and Hendricks

Alfred Conteh, A, from Two Fronts Series. Image courtesy of September Gray Fine Arts Gallery.

In a masterful dialogue, clever banter, colorful tones, and audible calls and responses take place. The … Read the rest

Living Left of Center

baiadmin — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:01:55 +0000

Living Left of Center

Kelli Morgan, PhD

What does it mean to be left of center?

The question almost begs for an innumerable amount of convoluted answers. If taken literally, one can offer a brief response that describes the condition … Read the rest

Do You Basel? An Assessment of Black Fairs at Art Basel Miami

baiadmin — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:38:51 +0000

Do You Basel? An Assessment of Black Fairs at Art Basel Miami

Angela N Carroll

In 2011, a small cadre of Black artists, gallery owners, collectors and community leaders from around the nation staged the first small fair of its … Read the rest

Decolonizing Performance Art: Phylicia Ghee Uses Ritual Performance to Heal the Generational Trauma of Black Women

baiadmin — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:35:55 +0000

Decolonizing Performance Art: Phylicia Ghee Uses Ritual Performance to Heal the Generational Trauma of Black Women

Angela N. Carroll

Performance art is difficult to encapsulate; it is a hyper-malleable and perpetually shape-shifting genre. In the 1960s, artist Allan Kaprow called … Read the rest

Black Then: Spotlight on Charles Wilbert White

baiadmin — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:32:52 +0000

Black Then: Spotlight on Charles Wilbert White

While a Chicago native, Charles W. White, Jr. was a seminal creator in the Los Angeles art scene for decades.

Born in 1918 into a working-class black family, White was also surrounded immediately … Read the rest

Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem At The Gibbes Museum

baiadmin — Tue, 21 May 2019 11:16:01 +0000

The Gibbes Museum of Art to Exhibit Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem

The Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to present Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, a major traveling exhibition … Read the rest