NC Museum of Art opens exhibit titled "30 Americans," featuring works by contemporary blacks

The North Carolina Museum of Art is opening an exhibit of 75 works by many of the most significant contemporary African-American artists of the last three decades. The exhibit is …

They’re telling stories in Dallas

“Tales Through Time: A Storytelling Event” will take place from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Gaston County Museum of Art & History. The free program, sponsored by a …

Visions of Life, Built From Bits and Pieces

Romare Bearden (1911-88) spent more than 30 years striving to be a great artist, and in the early 1960s, when he took up collage in earnest, he became one. A …

Artist listens to music for creative inspiration

When Debora Oden paints, she often listens to music by Erykah Badu or Ella Fitzgerald, finding creative inspiration that takes her own art to a higher level of expression. “Often, …

SAAAC continues to succeed with First Saturday Art Tour

by Marichal Brown Sacramento, CA– Every first Saturday, the Sacramento African-American Art Collective (SAAAC) hosts a self-guided art tour exhibiting the works of established and emerging African-American artists. In addition, …

David Driskell Prints, Part II

By ROGER CATLIN It’s the season of David C. Driskell in Connecticut museums. In New Haven, a student-chosen exhibit “Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art …

Poets and Painters Complement, Combine at Downtown Columbia Art Exhibit

By David Greisman The obvious, cliched route in starting off an article about a gallery exhibit featuring artwork and poetry alongside each other would be to begin with the familiar …

ROMARE BEARDEN: COLLAGE

By Culturekiosque Staff NEW YORK, 27 MARCH 2011 — The American artist Romare Bearden’s oeuvre of more than 2,000 known works in many media reveals the diverse influences of earlier …

‘We Are the Ship’ art exhibit shows baseball’s segregated past

By Rodger Mullen Growing up, artist Kadir Nelson was not a big baseball fan. Considering that he has devoted much of his career to the sport, it’s a little ironic. …

Kinsey family presentation: Where art, history and business intersect

by Andrea Sardone The College of William & Mary’s Mason School of Business in partnership with the Muscarelle Museum of Art hosts Bernard, Shirley and Khalil Kinsey at 5:30 p.m. …

A New Take on “Primitivism”? Man Ray, African Art, and The Modernist Lens

By Holly Hunt Of all the images I encountered in Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens, which completed its North American tour this winter with a stay at …

Black Film Fesitval kicks off

by Katelyn Hackett Wilmington– The North Carolina Black Film Festival kicked off on Thursday night. People filed into the Cameron Art Museum for the free reception. In its tenth year …

Brooklyn Museum Presents THE BROOKLYN ARTISTS BALL

The Brooklyn Museum will be partnering with Brooklyn artists to celebrate the Brooklyn Artists Ball, on Wednesday evening, April 27, 2011. This new twist on the Museum’s longstanding annual gala …

Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria Tours World Museums

By: Gabriella Osamor Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from …

Staten Island Museum to begin preparing its new home

By Michael J. Fressola STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Two years from now — roughly — after its $25 million city-funded retrofitting is finished, the 130-year-old Staten Island Museum hopes to …