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Photo: Teddyyy, Wiki Commons The American singer Nina Simone in concert in Morlaix (Brittany, France) in May 1982. The contributions Black Americans have made from politics to science to the arts and everything in between cannot be overstated. This, of course, applies to Pittsburgh as well, which has produced a number of Black innovators and pioneers. For Black History Month, celebrated throughout February, local institutions and organizations...

Reviews - January 14, 2021 In 2016, on the occasion of an exhibition of the photographs of Louis Draper at Steven Kasher Gallery, Hyperallergic critic John Yau asked, “Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know about This Great Photographer?” Apparently, they didn’t. Although Draper, who had died in 2002, was a prominent Black photographer and one-time president of the Kamoinge Workshop, there was little evidence that New York’s august Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) had paid much attention. MoMA’s communications director tersely informed Yau that the museum did, indeed, own photographs ...

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 f...

A selection of over 100 photos by the group are on view in a survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York called Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, which runs until 28 March. “The 1960s and 1970s were a time of social unrest, as ours is at this point,” said Whitney curator Carrie Springer (this traveling exhibition from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is curated by Sarah Eckhardt) “Looking at how they centered their artwork on depicting the community as they experienced it is inspiring, at a time like now,” said Springer. “Their self-organizin...

Blurring the Lines Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph, offers a comprehensive survey of a pioneering body of work. Born in Detroit but based in New York since the early 1970s, Ming Smith was the first female African-American photographer to have her work acquired by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She has mastered a blurry, impressionistic style emulating the mixture of spontaneity and detail in the jazz music she often evokes with her images. Raised in Columbus, Ohio, Ming Smith’s childhood unfolded in a setting very different to the Manhattan and Brooklyn streets that she made her...