Cleveland artist Michelangelo Lovelace savored big-time art world success briefly before his death in April
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Big-time art world success came late for Cleveland painter Michelangelo Lovelace, and it was very sweet when it did. But he scarcely had time to savor it before his life was cut short last month by an illness.
One of the city’s most important artists of the past 35 years, and one of its leading African-American artists, Lovelace died April 26 at his home in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood at age 60 after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer, his widow, Shirley Lovelace, said. His funeral was held Wednesday.
May 10, 2021
Sebastian Smee
THE WASHINGTON POST – Art love can be founded on soul-shaking epiphanies or on little “A-ha!” moments. I remember, for instance, learning that many of the gloomy photographs in
Paris by Night, Brassai’s classic vision of 1930s Paris nightlife, were taken during the day.
“A-ha!” I thought. You can do that?!
Well, yes, you can. You’re an artist. You’re playing with chemicals in a darkroom. You can do whatever you like.
Night Coming Tenderly, Black, Dawoud Bey’s haunting 2017 series of nighttime landscape photographs, named for a line in a poem by Langston Hughes, also were taken during the day. Instead of fabricating Paris’ seedy glamour, Bey’s photographs imagine nighttime scenes experienced by fugitive enslaved people on the Underground Railroad.
New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York
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Alpha 137 Gallery in collaboration with the non-profit Chashama presents a group exhibition of paintings, editions, posters and sculptures celebrating NYC by artists including Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Red Grooms, Jack Youngerman, Bob Gruen, Massimo Vignelli, Thelma Appel, Yvonne Jacquette and Nancy Graves.
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The West Harlem Art Fund Presents WE ARE IN REACH on Governors Island
The exhibition includes Descension and Genesis , series, Strangest of Fruits, and more.by BWW News Desk
The West Harlem Art Fund will present their new exhibition WE ARE IN REACH on Governors Island in the historic district of Nolan Park. The show is open now through June 25, 2021 for the public. According to Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund, The past year allowed the world to reconnect to family, heritage, language and tradition in new ways and to appreciate those times even more. And as we look at human existence, it all began in Africa. WE ARE IN REACH looks at how those of African descent honor memory, philosophy and tradition.