HIGH TO HOST LANDMARK EXHIBITION OF WORKS

by: John Marin The High Museum of Art will host “John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism,” the first major comprehensive exhibition addressing John Marin’s (1870–1953) modernist achievements in the watercolor medium. Comprising more than 100 works, the exhibition includes a group of 40 watercolors from the collection of Alfred Stieglitz donated to the Art …

Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge

Sometimes a career survey doubles as a scan of social history. This is true of Glenn Ligon’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a tight but ample show that refers back to America’s slave-holding past and forward to the Obama present but focuses on the late 1980s and 1990s, a too-seldom-revisited stretch of …

Yale Show Looks At Black Identity

By: ROGER CATLIN NEW HAVEN — — Before Black History Month disappears next week, it’s worth noting a major show on the subject of African American identity that opened last week at the Yale University Art Gallery. The 54 pieces in “Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery” were chosen …

American civil rights: the Welsh connection

by: Gary Younge When Reverend Andre Reynolds, minister of music at the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, looks out to the congregation for inspiration, he occasionally lifts his eyes over the pews, beyond the balcony and sets his gaze on the Wales window. “I think it’s wonderful that people halfway around the world …

Barbara Grad’s exhibit is a higher form of art

By ELISABETH KIRSCH Long before Google Earth, artists (or, perhaps, aliens) created images that could only be viewed in their entirety from way up high. Witness the Nazca Lines in Peru, the prehistoric Serpent Mounds in Ohio, and crop circles just about everywhere. Rock drawings in the Australian continent demonstrate that mapping the Earth — …

West Michigan Symphony, Muskegon Museum of Art team up for enrichment program

A fun day steeped in the arts and humanities is in store for more than 130 seventh- and eighth-grade students from six Muskegon County school districts on Friday. Follow Your Art, a collaboration of the West Michigan Symphony (WMS) and the Muskegon Museum of Art (MMA), will be part arts and humanities festival, part arts …

Georgia Museum of Art Hosts Artists’ Panel Discussion

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host a panel discussion featuring 11 artists from the museum’s current exhibition of works by African-American artists, “Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African-American Art,” on March 24. Carl Christian is primarily an abstract painter who earned an M.A. in music …

ART REVIEW: "No Boundaries" at Baobab

By Rebecca Rafferty The Baobab Cultural Center gives voice to local and regional African-American concerns, joys, and visual talents more frequently than the designated annual Black History Month. Year round, the center serves as an important meeting space for community members, and as a venue for film screenings about African-American and African issues, community dialogue …

African folk art collection hangs in Natchez museum

by:Jennifer Edwards PAM FINLEY holds a carving done by a New Orleans artist that is part of the African-American folk art owned by her and her husband, John Finley, at the National Association for the Preservation of African-American Culture Museum in Natchez. The art piece is one of several in a collection of west African …

Art and History Meet in African-American Exhibit at Museum

by: Margaret Burroughs FAITH LAPIDUS: The National Museum of African American History and Culture is presenting the exhibit. It is called “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey – Where Art and History Intersect.” It is being shown at the NMAAHC gallery at the National Museum of American History on the National …

THE ART INSIDE OF ME!!!!!

I am a professional artist from Philadelphia,Pa. I am focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction. I’m also focus to help my customers feel better. I can draw portraits,logos or any illustrations for any special occasions. I am based on the belief that my customers’ needs are of the utmost importance. I am committed …

Black History Museum: The Nobility of the everyday

By MAUREEN ELGERSMAN LEE Before I moved to Virginia three and a half years ago, I started an intellectual journey unlike any I had embarked on before. The goal was as complex as it was simple: reconstruct the history of a small African-American community in a small city in northernMaine, a state with one of …

Artist Explores African American Experience on Canvas

By Karla Dorweiler “The most consistent theme in my work is that of visibility because I recognize that historically black people have generally been rendered invisible,” Best writes. That theme carries through in all of her powerful paintings and collages, three of which are on display at the Farmington Hills Public Art Exhibition at City …

Artist Talk: Shantrelle Lewis

By C. Zawadi Morris New Orleans Native and Bed-Stuy resident Shantrelle P. Lewis is the director of public programming and exhibitions at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). She also is curator for a new exhibit, “Sex Crimes Against Black Girls,” which opened Saturday February 5th at the Skylight Gallery in Restoration Plaza. …