If you look at any influencer’s home or even visual podcasts, you start to notice a very familiar abstract print: sometimes black and white, sometimes black, white and gold, but they use the same broad brush strokes of color on a simple white canvas.
Above: Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway | Movement of Meditation | oil, acrylic, wool on canvas | 2022 This week in African art and culture, we bring happenings from literature and contemporary art.
This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by The Children’s Trust This week in Black art and culture, Gray Gallery in New York and Chicago announce Citing Black Geographies exhibit.
Above: Black Box Men and Women | courtesy ArtCrawl Harlem Black Eye. Black Sheep. Black Ball. Black Cloud. Conceptual artist Michael Coppage lends a new understanding of how the word “black,” simply a color, connotes negativity in his community project exhibit, Black Box (July 23-Aug.
This Week in African Art and Culture brings exciting news mainly from the literary scene. A Zimbabwean author makes the Booker Prize shortlist;
This Week in Black Art and Culture is sponsored by The Children’s Trust Angel Blue, a soprano, pulls out of an opera in Verona, Italy over the use of blackface in Aida.
Xavier Hufkens is proud to present the first European gallery retrospective dedicated to the work of Antiguan painter, sculptor, writer, philosopher, and true Renaissance man, Frank Walter (1926-2009).
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc. welcome artists whose work appears in the exhibition Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive to join in conversation with leading writers and historians.
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) announces a riveting site-specific commission of monumental scale by Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa titled The Five Continents of All Our Desires.
Orange Barrel Media (OBM) is pleased to partner with artist Genevieve Gaignard and Atlanta-based independent curator Karen Comer Lowe on a largescale outdoor public art exhibition that explores the issues of race, class, and gender.
