Is Black Art Still Relevant?

Black Art will always be relevant to me. As a Baby Boomer I saw Jim Crow and racial troubles and Black Art helps me to connect with my roots. I …

The Art of the Steal

If a major American city wants to be taken seriously as a cultural center, it needs a world-class art museum. Such institutions are a ubiquitous presence everywhere from New York …

Staging the African American Experience

By Kola TubosunMarch 6, 2010 03:27PM Theatre seems always justified by catharsis, as there is nothing as innately fulfilling as the wonderful sense of exhilaration that comes from seeing a …

A year of (possible) firsts at the Oscars

By Mark BermanSunday,March 7, 2010 Sunday’s 82nd annual Academy Awards should offer a dazzling combination of excitement (look, a famous person!) and sheer boredom (the front-runners in all the major …

Met Guards Are True Artists

A fair number of the guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are artists themselves, yearning for a little exposure. Now they are stepping into the spotlight with a new …

DNA clues hunted in ’90 art theft

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the theft of masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the FBI is resubmitting evidence taken from the crime scene for DNA …

Art, care centers offer promise for black community

Two institutions, several miles apart – one newly formed and the other 70 years old – held celebrations last week, and both offer greater promise for African-Americans and the broad …

Upcoming Washington area museum, gallery exhibits and closing shows

The following exhibitions open next week. “In the Realm of the Buddha,” opening March 13 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, celebrates the sacred arts of Tibetan Buddhism with two …

Get Ready for an Art Glut

Art dealers, blue chip collectors, artists, art press, art hangers-on and lots of people decked out in totally bizarre outfits have all descended on Manhattan for the annual extravaganza of …

Joyce Lomax

Every ceramic artist begins with inspiration, sometimes that inspiration is directly in the field in which the artist works, other times it is seemingly unrelated, but deeply inspired. From early …

Eunice LaFate

Eunice LaFate was born on the island of Jamaica. Her creative vision finds its origin in the colors and tones of the island’s people, landscapes, and culture. While her homeland …

Contemporary art shines at New York’s Armory Show

New York’s annual Armory Show, the biggest window on contemporary art in the United States, has opened with hopes of injecting energy and cash into the city’s recession-hit art scene. …

Time was up for Israeli burglar’s widow

Nili Shamrat of Tarzana was caught after she sold clocks back to the Jerusalem museum that her late husband, Na’aman Diller, stole them from in 1983, investigators said. When prolific …

Islamic gallery opens at Detroit art museum

By Jeff Karoub, Associated Press Writer DETROIT — In the heart of the largest concentration of Muslims in the U.S., the Detroit Institute of Arts this weekend is opening a …