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Richard Hunt, an influential sculptor whose work channeled the civil rights movement and filled public spaces across the U.S., has died at age 88.
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled, 2009, acrylic on PVC panel, 61 1/8 × 72 7/8". IT IS AS PLAIN as the nose on one’s face—and, for many, equally impossible to see—that…
New stained glass by Marshall in honor of peaceful protest — along with a poem by Elizabeth Anderson — replace a 1950s tribute to Confederate generals
Robert Barry , May 22nd, 2021 07:58 A show at London's Tiwani Contemporary reveals a painter whose work is imbued through and through with music Visiting Andrew Pierre Hart’s show at Tiwani Contemporary a few weeks ago, one work in particular stood out for me. It was titled A portrait of the artist composing the show (2021), but the shadowed figure lurking at the back of the frame bathed in blue is not caught posing with a palette or brush. Instead, we find him poised behind a drum kit, as if the exhibition being ‘composed’ were an assemblage less of oil and stretched canvas; more some...
Kerry James Marshall (photo: HBO) In 1976, David Driskell took on the monumental task of mounting “Two Centuries of African American Art.” First displayed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before traveling across the country to Dallas, Atlanta and New York, the show presented a cross section of art made by Black people in America. A new HBO documentary, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light,” looks at the legacy of Driskell (1931-2020), a Black American scholar, artist and curator, and his revolutionary landmark exhibition. Weaving together interviews with major contemporary art...