A sculptor takes his craft to the skies
On Saturday night, June 18, Memphis, Tennessee-based artist Desmond Lewis was in a public park unloading cakes bundles of fireworks connected b
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On Saturday night, June 18, Memphis, Tennessee-based artist Desmond Lewis was in a public park unloading cakes bundles of fireworks connected b
Nestled on the banks of the Ohio and Licking Rivers, ‘The Nati’ features museums, cuisine, and plenty of fun!
“Afro-Atlantic Histories,” with artworks dating from the 1700s to the present, is like nothing else ever shown before at the National Gallery.
The museum announced plans this year to build a 60,000-square-foot building on its downtown campus. The $85 million project is likely to be completed in 2026, but an architectural firm will be hired in December.
IN 1968, thirteen Black security officers and gallery attendants at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted a Black Culture Festival on museum grounds. As a successful piece of community outreach, the event, which coincided with the exhibition “The Sculpture of Black Africa,” was celebrated, earning lead organizer Sergeant William Knight and head of security Sidney Slade commendations from the Los Angeles County board of supervisors. In art historian Bridget R. Cooks’s telling, this cultural intervention led directly to the museum’s hiring David Driskell to guest-curate the major e...