Vulture22d
A Storied Black Family Faces Itself in Purpose
lies the accumulated evidence of the Jasper family’s prominence. There are framed photos of their patriarch Solomon with various Black dignitaries and a large painting of Martin Luther King Jr ...
The Financial Times20d
A pitch-black art gallery — now that’s a bright idea
It is a “black cube”: an inversion of the white-walled space that has been the default for showing art since the 20th ... scion of a prominent shipping family help keep the gallery running.
The New York Times21d
Why Black Satire Is the Art Form for Our Absurd Age
Black American novelists ... “Appropriate” (2013), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s sardonic drama about white family members returning to their ancestral plantation home in southeast Arkansas ...
CBC.ca21d
She's thought to be Canada's first Black woman painter. Now the public can finally see her art
It turns out that her mother was someone thought to be the first documented Black ... in art, how far she would have gone." Painter Edith MacDonald-Brown (Courtesy of the Brown-Howe family ...
WLRN19d
Miami art exhibit tells story of how Black hair business was 'act of resistance' in South Florida
A new Miami art exhibit, "Black Beauty as an Act of Resistance," is honoring the social and economic impact of Black-owned beauty shops and barbershops, which often served as safe spaces for ...