Installation view of “Zanele Muholi,” Winter 2025 – deFINEart, Gallery 110, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga. (Feb. 25-July 6, 2025). | Photo Courtesy SCAD On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions EVERY YEAR, the Savannah College of Art and Design’s deFINE ART program brings together an international...
For these three women, the collection and display of accessible art by lesser-known and emerging artists is central to the design of their homes ATLANTA | “When I decorate, I don’t necessarily, to be honest with you, have a theme in mind. I just surround myself with things that I absolutely love,” Patrice Alexander...
Rendering of McLaren Artura GT4 designed by Mickalene Thomas for DART Car. | Photo Courtesy DART Car ART THAT CELEBRATES BLACK WOMEN is hitting the professional racing circuit. Mickalene Thomas designed a custom wrap for a McLaren Artura GT4 race car. The commission was announced by Driven Artists Racing Team (DART Car), a female-led...
Project aims to document legacy of Altadena in wake of LA wildfires, Lubaina Himid will represent UK at Venice Biennale, photography curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo won Vilcek Prize, Anne Collins Smith is chief curator at New Orleans Museum of Art, Sandra Jackson-Dumont stepping down at Lucas Museum, and more Rashid Johnson was honored at...
Installation view of “Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts,” Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. (Jan. 10-March 29, 2025). | © Nick Cave. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio ELEMENTS OF BEAUTY, craft, and the natural world frame two profound bodies of work by Nick...
Lubaina Himid. | Photo © Adama Jalloh A key figure in the British Black Arts Movement, Lubaina Himid will be the third Black artist in a row to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale THE BRITISH COUNCIL announced Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid (b. 1954) will represent Great Britain at the 61st...
Lot 2: MICHAEL ESCOFFERY, Portrait of Harry Belafonte, 2012 (acrylic on canvas). Signed by Escoffery. | Estimate $400-$600. SOLD for $585 fees included CONCERT AND MOVIE POSTERS. Portraits of Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) by various artists. Signed “Belafonte at Carnegie Hall” album. Kennedy Center Honors award. Correspondence with President John F. Kennedy, President Bill Clinton,...
LOS ANGELES-AREA MUSEUMS are presenting an array of exhibitions featuring works by Black artists. Exhibitions are exploring Black art history through the lives and work of key African American artists and cultural figures, including Ben Caldwell, Alice Coltrane, George Washington Carver, and Nellie Mae Rowe, each of whom deserve to be more widely known. The...
ANN JOHNSON, “Egyptian Collar,” 2002 (mixed media: beads, regulation goal and backboard, found objects, chain net, 48 inches long). | © Ann Johnson. Collection of Elliot Perry, Memphis, Tenn. THE FREIGHTED SYMBOLISM of basketball, its intrinsic connection to the Black community, and the elements used to play the sport (ball, hoop, and net) have...
Anne Collins Smith’s appointment is historic. She is the first Black person to head NOMA’s curatorial department THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART (NOMA) announced a new chief curator on Feb. 11. Anne Collins Smith has taken on the newly created role, leading the museum’s entire curatorial department. Collins is a local hire with...
Marlon Mullen at work in the NIAD studio. | Courtesy the artist and NIAD A PORTRAIT of a Black male painter in his studio graced the cover of Artforum in January 2017. The issue included a review of “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” a 35-year retrospective of the artist. In the painting, Kerry James Marshall...
RICHARD MAYHEW, “Minuet,” 2002 (oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches / 50.8 x 60.96 cm). | ©️Estate of Richard Mayhew, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions THE LUMINOUS LANDSCAPES of Richard Mayhew (1924-2024) evoke a sense of spiritual transcendence. Mayhew pictured abstracted and imagined places that evince...
Queen Tahj working on the Super Bowl logo in her studio. The New Orleans artist is known for her intricate, hand-sewn beadwork. | Courtesy NFL THE OFFICIAL ART of Super Bowl LIX is hand-crafted with beadwork. For the first time, the National Football League (NFL) commissioned an artist outside of the organization to create...
CURRENTLY ON VIEW in New York, galleries are presenting a rare look at six decades of paintings by Felrath Hines, Henry Taylor’s venture into printmaking, and the first U.S. solo exhibition of Ethiopian Jewish artist Tigist Yoseph Ron. Solo exhibitions of Barkley L. Hendricks and Miles Greenberg also on view. The shows are closing in...
Lot 51: SIR FRANK BOWLING, OBE RA (b. 1934), “Profile,” 2013 (acrylic on canvas with marouflage, 737 x 914 mm / 29 x 38 inches). | Estimate $50,000-$75,000. SOLD for ($32,000 Hammer Price) $40,000 fees included WORKS BY FRANK BOWLING, Norman Lewis, Alma Thomas, Beauford Delaney, Jack Whitten, and dozens more Black artists are...
The Best Black Art Books of 2024 explore many artists and themes, including Alvin Ailey, Elizabeth Catlett, Tschabalala Self, Sargent Claude Johnson, the Harlem Renaissance, African photographers, Caribbean makers, and queer designers SOME OF THE BEST illustrated Black art books published over the past year highlight the work of women artists and reflect the rich...
In January, artist and gallery founder Alonzo Davis died, Made in L.A. artists and USA Fellows were announced, Christina Kimeze and Martha Jackson Jarvis joined new galleries, Africa Center welcomed a new leader, discovery of rare William H. Dorsey painting was reported, and more MARIO JOYCE, “Fragmented Memory,” 2024 (soil, vintage collage, oil paint,...
Alisa Chiles is the new Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Decorative Arts, 1890 to the Present at the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts. | Photo by Sandra Sellars, © 2024 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (VMFA) in Richmond, Va., has built a prized collection of...
THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS of San Francisco marked the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend with a new installation, bringing attention to iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), and the uncertain times in which he became a national figure. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” (1990), a bronze portrait bust by Elizabeth...
THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA PS1, museums are presenting important exhibitions of African American artists. The following shows explore Alvin Ailey, Elizabeth Catlett, Belle da Costa Greene, Marlon Mullen, Latinx artists, design interpretations of ‘Making Home,’ and more. (Exhibitions...
New York: 5 Gallery Exhibitions Explore Works by Lina Iris Viktor, Tyler Mitchell, Todd Gray, Saya Woolfalk, Glenn Ligon and Julius Eastman
Mar 15, 2025
On View: Striking Portraits by South African Photographer Zanele Muholi at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia
Mar 13, 2025
On View: ‘Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson’ at MFA Boston is Largest-Ever Exhibition of the Artist and Educator
Mar 11, 2025
Homeworthy Art: Collectors in Atlanta, New York, and London Recently Gave Tours of Their Homes, Showcasing Meaningful and Accessible Artworks Acquired Over Time
Mar 9, 2025
Mickalene Thomas Designed a Custom Race Car Wrap for DART Car, a Female-Led Pro Motorsports Team
Mar 2, 2025
