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Tribute to Vision & Justice Project and Founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Frieze New York galleries and institutions respond to: ‘How are the arts responsible for disrupting, complicating, or shifting narratives of visual representation in the public realm?’  A central strand of Frieze New York 2021 programming is the Tribute to the  Vision & Justice Project and its founder, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Associate Professor at Harvard University). The Tribute will honour the ...

Cost:    $20 | $10 Parrish Members Free for Students Description The Parrish, in collaboration with Hamptons Doc Fest, is pleased to present HBOs newly released film. Inspired by the late David Driskell’s landmark 1976 exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” the documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light offers an illuminating introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today. A pre-recorded conversation betwee...

The Phillips Collection celebrates its centennial year in 2021.  After losing his father in 1917 and then his brother in the 1918 influenza pandemic, museum founder Duncan Phillips wrote in A Collection in the Making, “Art offers two great gifts of emotion—the emotion of recognition and the emotion of escape. Both emotions take us out of the boundaries of self…. At my period of crisis I was prompted to create something which would express my awareness of life’s retur...

1 month ago in Local Photo: clipart.com Organizations around Maine are set to receive nearly $300,000 to promote arts and literature programs. The funding is from the National Endowment for the Arts and is going to organizations and individuals from Portland to Waterville. The largest award is a $45,000 grant to the Portland Museum of Art to support an exhibition of the work of painter David Driskell, who died in 2020. Points North Institute in Camden will recei...

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. (Photo by Stu Rosner) This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Bridget R. Cooks, and Darby English. *** One cannot consider the present-day field of African American art history without mention of Sarah Lewis. The associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University...

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comments Why does the current wave of Black American artists feel like such a new thing? Because it is. Curators are rapidly placing Black art in museums, collectors are learning and understanding what Black artists are trying to say, and fellowships for Black artists are increasing. Finally, the rest of the world is starting to recognize our talents. The reason it has taken so long is because Black people came into this country as property­­ in 1619­­. And even though Im sure plenty of tho...

Central to the new documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light is a pivotal art exhibition that debuted in 1976. "Two Centuries of Black American Art" was the first major show by a Black curator to look at the history of art produced by African Americans. Covering the period between 1750 and 1950, it featured 200 works and 63 artists, with painting, sculpture, drawing, graphics, crafts and decorative arts. When it went on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the fall of 1976, ...

Bridget Cooks, author of "Exhibiting Blackness," steaks with Folasade Ologundudu about the changing field of Black art history.

Bridget R. Cooks. (Photo by Evelina Pentchev.) This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Darby English, and Sarah Lewis. *** In her much-discussed 2011 book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cooks looked at the ways that museums have perpetuated racial inequity through the presentation and curation of African American an...