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Tuesday, February 9  Black Art: In the Absence of Light Per an HBO official description, “Inspired by the late David Driskell’s landmark 1976 exhibition, Two Centuries of Black American Art, the documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light offers an illuminating introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today.” 9 p.m. E.T. on Wednesday, February 10  Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel Netflix's latest true-crime watch is here. Read an official description, below. Streaming on “From housing serial killers to untimely deaths, the Ceci...

Black Contemporary Art Online Aesthetica teams up with ISE-DA – a trailblazing platform promoting Black visual arts culture – to highlight the best digital exhibitions, online galleries and videos. Established for young creatives, collectors and enthusiasts of Black African descent, ISE-DA aims to cultivate a pioneering new generation of creatives who are interested, invested and informed about art across the Diaspora. February is Black History Month in the US; many of their selected links are essential resources to educate and inspire. Africa. The Caribbean. USA. Afrosoul celebrat...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. From the fall of 1976 through the summer of 1977, the same scene repeated itself at art museums around the country—long lines of people stretching outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and finally at the Brooklyn Museum, all to see David Driskell’s exhibition, Two Centuries of Black American Art.  With this exhibit, Driskell, who died last year at the age of 88, pushed audiences to view and recognize the vastness of art by Black artists across med...

HBO's Black Art: In The Absence of Light debuts February 9 Sanford Biggers. Photo: Courtesy HBO. NEW YORK, NY .- Firmly rooted in the history of the Black American experience, Black Art: In The Absence of Light, debuting Tuesday, February 9 (9:00-10:25 p.m. ET/PT), is directed and produced by award-winning documentarian Sam Pollard (HBO’s “Atlanta Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children”). A vital and illuminating introduction to the work of some of the foremost African American visual artists working today, including Theaster Gates, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald and Ca...

Just Dive In! A new book by scholar, curator, and artist Deborah Willis,  Vogue sat down with Willis to discuss the genesis of the book and what she learned after its completion. ( Guardian/Vogue)   The Outsider Art Fair is live and in full swing. Check out the online viewing rooms and in-person events across New York City, where you will find the inventory of dealers like Steven S. Powers, whose winter catalogue  The Design his Own is now available and very much worth perusing. Steve turns up some of the most wonderful objects that pivot between the genres we know as antique, fo...