The Water Bearer: Chicago Based Artist, Candace Hunter Combines the Intersections of Identity and the Global Water Crisis by Daniel Dunson

Above: Detail from “Secrets, Refuge, and Safety” installation. Phototransfer collage on wood. 14″ x 14″ x 5″. The prolific work of multimedia artist Candace Hunter is rooted in her identity as an African American woman. Her pieces transcend binary accounts of race and gender, excavating nuanced intersectional themes that connect with history, memory, spirituality,...

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Mark Bradford to Deliver 2018 Commencement Address

Above:Photo: Carlos Avendano. Courtesy of the artist. Renowned Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford will address the Class of 2018 and receive an honorary degree at Otis College of Art and Design’s Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 13, 2018 at noon. Rosemary Brantley, retired Founding Chair of the Fashion Design Department, will also be recognized...

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Bouchra Khalili Presents New Films

Above: Bouchra Khalili, “Speeches – Chapter 1: Mother Tongue” (still) from The Speeches Series, 2012-2013. Video trilogy. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Polaris, Paris. In videos, photographs, and silkscreen prints she often assembles in complex installations that effectively form visual essays, the Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili weaves a kind of “alternative history.” Challenging our...

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After the End of the World: Sun Ra Arkestra Lands in Miami

It’s not enough to say that Sun Ra was ahead of his time; it feels like we still haven’t caught up to him yet. The enigmatic jazz musician, composer, and bandleader cut quite the cosmic figure through the 20th century with his esoteric and bewitching compositions, intergalactic outfits, and metaphysical explorations that he sought to...

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Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded at the Block Museum of Art

Above: Hank Willis Thomas, Bleach and Glow, 1975/2008. LightJet print, 61.9 x 50 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. Renowned American artist Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976) has consistently explored American consumer culture, particularly as it relates to African-American subjects. His projects often appropriate images drawn from advertising campaigns to investigate the...

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Sir David Adjaye Gives Lecture at Princeton

Above: National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo: Alan Karchmer. Sir David Adjaye, one of the most renowned architects of his generation, is known for a diverse body of work that spans the globe. Rather than pursuing a signature style, his firm’s designs respond to the unique qualities of their context, drawing out...

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Photographs Shine at Swann Galleries’ African Americana Auction New Record for a Signed Photograph of Frederick Douglass at $30k

Above: Signed Photo of Fredrick Douglass. Institutional purchases dominated the buying field at Swann Galleries’ auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana on March 29. The top lots of the auction were almost entirely manuscripts, archives, early photographs or otherwise unique material. A large percentage—four of the top five, and 13 of the top...

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Kehinde Wiley (BFA 1999) to receive Honorary degree and address graduates at SFAI’s 2018 Commencement Ceremony

Above: Kehinde Wiley. Photo: Tony Powell. San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is pleased to announce that alumnus Kehinde Wiley (BFA 1999), whose recent portrait of President Barack Obama for the National Portrait Gallery made international news, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree and address graduates at SFAI’s 2018 Commencement Ceremony, to be...

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Peter London Global Dance Company Set to Perform High-Energy Program Celebrating Dance and Music of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas

The Peter London Global Dance Company (PLGDC), Miami’s iconic contemporary dance company, returns to St. John’s on the Lake on April 7 for Miami Beach Global Dance Night. Set in the beautiful and intimate St. John’s on the Lake church, the program celebrates the high-octane and visceral energy of dance and music from North and...

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Norman Lewis: A Spotlight on the Dark Horse of the Ten Americans After Paul Klee Exhibit at the Phillips Collection

Paul Klee, best known for his idiosyncratic symbolism and ineffable shapes of color, influenced a generation of abstractionists in America that were all searching for a dual purpose: to make art that better reflected the emerging philosophy of existentialism, and create a world past what was commonly known as representational and true. At the Phillips...

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