Rihanna has teamed with artist
Lorna Simpson for a series of stunning collages for the January/February 2021 issue of Essence and 12-page portfolio titled “Of Earth & Sky.”
“Lorna is a legend,” said Rihanna. “Honestly, I just didn’t think I could get her,” she added. “But I like reaching for the stars and I like challenging myself.”
Here’s more from Essence:
Simpson has become known for her art that recontextualizes images of Black women from vintage pages of Ebony and Jet magazines and found photos in the creation of arresting collages. In 2018, she received the J. Paul Getty Medal and she has been honored by The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Saying yes to this exclusive project allowed Simpson, 60, to continue exploring narratives around gender, race and identity. She also shared the experience with her daughter, writer and actor Zora Simpson Casebere, 22, who penned the accompanying co
Black Art Matters
At the Whitney Museum, the enduring legacy of the Kamoinge photography collective 14 distinctive talents finally in the spotlight.
Ming Smith’s “America Seen Through Stars and Stripes,” New York City, circa 1976, in the show “Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Credit.Ming Smith and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Jan. 13, 2021
It’s only fairly recently that the mainstream art world, which likes to think of itself as progressive, has fully begun to embrace the idea that Black art matters. Even a few decades ago, if you were an African-American artist, you could realistically expect to find your work excluded from major i.e. white-run museums. For you, the marketing machinery that makes careers didn’t exist. Galleries weren’t showing you. Collectors weren’t buying you. Critics weren’t looking your way.
The Art-Filled High Line Is Planning a $60 Million Expansion, Dubbed New York City’s ‘Most Ambitious Redevelopment in Decades’
What you need to know about Andrew Cuomo s plan to expand the High Line.
Artist Simone Leigh s
Brick House, stands atop the Spur, then the last section of the High Line park to be converted into public space, June 4, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images.)
There’s going to be a whole lot more High Line in Manhattan.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has released plans for not one, but two, separate expansions of the popular elevated park.
Rendering of the view from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard looking northeast toward the Faulkner Gateway, showing the museum café outdoor seating at left and Carmen Herrera s mural on the right Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin
The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, will unveil a monumental mural by the 105-year-old Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera as part of a $35m redesign of its campus at the University of Texas.
The mural is inspired by the hard-edge painter’s 1956 painting
Green and White, which featured in Herrera’s long-overdue retrospective
Lines of Sight at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016. The painting marked a “period of intense experimentation as Herrera developed her signature style”, says the museum’s director, Simone Wicha.