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February 12, 2021
Ryder Ripps performs at Webster Hall. (Photo by Nicky Digital/Corbis via Getty Images) // Azealia Banks performs at Electric Brixton. (Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns)
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TIME Magazine‘s new cover features American poet Amanda Gorman, photographed by Ethiopian-American artist Awol Erizku. (Photo of Awol Erizku by Jeff Vespa)
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AMANDA GORMAN, PHOTOGRAPHED BY ARTIST AWOL ERIZKU FOR TIME COVER.
TIME Magazine‘s new cover features American poet Amanda Gorman, photographed by Ethiopian-American artist Awol Erizku. Erizku is quickly becoming one of the most iconic photographers of our time.
Erizku is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, film, sculpture and installation, creating a new vernacular that bridges the gap between African and African American visual culture, referencing art history, hip hop and spirituality, amongst other subjects, in his work.
Until April 21, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is hosting an exhibit called “Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem,” which embodies “Stories of Blackness” from nearly 80 different artists of African American descent.
In an early scene in the new HBO documentary,
Black Art: In the Absence of Light, artist and art historian David Driskell is working on a new piece in his studio, dipping his paintbrush into a bottle of glue to stick scraps of paper onto a canvas. He notes that it was Romare Bearden who inspired his lifelong commitment to collage so much so that after he met the renowned artist in the late 1970s, he created a piece in his honor.
When Bearden himself later saw that work in a show, he wasn’t impressed. “What you’re doing there is not David, it’s Romie,” he said to Driskell. Later, Bearden walked over to another piece of Driskell’s, stopped in front of it, and said, “Now that’s you, that’s your voice.”
"Black Art: In the Absence of Light," the new documentary film from acclaimed director Sam Pollard that began streaming Tuesday on HBO, opens with a clip from a notorious 1976