African mythology and folklore collide in William Villalongo’s entrancing velvety portraits
Much has been written about Henry Box Brown’s body. The 33-year-old enslaved man from Virginia was 5′10″ and around 200 pounds in the spring of 1849 when he forced himself into a wooden box not much ...
The Black Wall Street Times on MSN15h
Phillis Wheatley: The first African American poet to publish a book
Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...
Ivorian painter Aboudia takes teen rebellion to top of the art world
With his paintings of Ivory Coast's street kids, Aboudia has taken his teenage misfit mutiny to the very top, becoming one of ...
Hyperallergic4d
Silas Munro: How Can the Grid Deal with a Messy World?
This solo exhibition at Art School Galleries incorporates Munro’s research into African lineages within the history of graphic design.
Wall Street Journal14d
Arab TV Takes a Break From Bashing Israel for Ramadan
What the 400 million Arabs in 22 Middle Eastern and North African countries will see this year when they turn on their TVs will differ from the usual fare. Despite the region’s fixation on the ...
The Spokesman-Review15d
Notable African American Firsts In Art Awards
Selznick had to call in a favor to allow McDaniel, her escort for the night and her white agent to sit at a small table up against a far wall of the ... issues faced by African Americans, was ...
KPLC21d
The art of African American quilting
According to the National Gallery of Art, unlike the organized, precise patterns that many quilters made from Dutch and English designs, African American quilts were often raw and vibrant. They were ...
Wall Street Journal22d
Trump Dumps African Aid
Free Expression: Judging by Democrats' reaction at USAID, the Treasury and the Department of Education, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency looks less DOGE and more DOGA, a ...
Artnet26d
Eye on the African Art Market
Alongside the growth of art fairs in Africa in recent years, international interest in contemporary African artists has risen sharply… some would say to unsustainable heights. Amid a global ...
The New York Times26d
South African Imam and Gay Rights Advocate Is Shot Dead
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg A South African imam who devoted his life to promoting gay rights and tolerance for L.G.B.T.Q. Muslims was shot and killed in the coastal city of Gqeberha on Saturday ...
WDSU27d
SUNO honors Edward DeCarbo with African art exhibition
The Southern University at New Orleans Museum of Art is set to open its latest exhibition, "Liminal Spaces: Selections from the Edward DeCarbo Collection of African Art," honoring the late Dr ...
Smithsonian Magazine28d
These Seven Stunning Towers Memorialize Lost Black Lives With Mirrors, Light and Ethiopian Cross Designs
At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...