Candidate Contests Election Endorsement Art

Leopardo and I am African American, Swedish, Italian, French, Native American and Chinese. I identify as multiracial.On April 18, I picked up the Daily Nexus endorsement issue. You can imagine …

DC Black Theatre Fest Presents unFRAMED June 12-14 Read more: http://dc.broadwayworld.com/article/DC-Black-Theatre-Fest-Presents-unFRAMED

DOUBLE PLAY CONNECTIONS, DOING LIFE PRODUCTIONS, and Jane Dubin, Executive Producer are pleased to present Iyaba Ibo Mandingo’s unFRAMED directed by Brent Buell as a Spotlight Show at the D.C. …

The Root: Segregated Museums Mirror History

Natalie Hopkinson is a contributing editor toThe Root. The Anacostia Community Museum is one of the Smithsonian Institution’s grand, federally chartered Washington, D.C., museums, but it is located miles from …

Dallas Museum of Art Announces Awards for Artists

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced its annual awards to artists, which offer grants for travel and special projects to nine individuals. Some familiar names as of late: Edward …

Oprah as Muse: Five Unexpected Ways That the Talk Show Legend Impacted Art

On the penultimate episode of Oprah Winfrey‘s beloved television show, aired today, actor Tom Hanks tells the TV icon in a video tribute: “Your show has turned surprise into an …

A century-old Upper East Side façade conceals the aggressively modern design of David Adjaye.

With the flamboyant orneriness that limitless wealth allows, the art collector Adam Lindemann and his wife, Amalia Dayan, have staged an act of architectural dissidence on the Upper East Side. …

New Orleans and the culture of resistance

Over five years since the catastrophe of hurricane Katrina, communities in New Orleans are still struggling to rebuild and return. Shocking images of Katrina broadcast globally continue to communicate the …

African American Opera Colors Galapagos

Two Brooklyn opera companies, AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) and OPERA ON TAP (OOT), will present Opera Grows in Brooklyn: Opera of Color, featuring a collection of contemporary opera and song …

Maybe It’s Jon Stewart Who Can’t See Beyond Race

I’m going to make some points about the lesser controversies (namely the lyrics issue) surrounding the invitation of rapper/poet “Common” to the Whitehouse, because John Nolte has the larger controversies …

Detroit Institute of Art renames contemporary African American art gallery

The Detroit Institute of Arts will name its new gallery of contemporary African American art after a pioneering General Motors executive and his wife. The newly named Maureen and Roy …

2 Live Stews Host Education Fundraiser at Bill Lowe Art Gallery

Throughout their 10-year career in broadcasting, radio personalities and brothers Doug and Ryan Stewart of the nationally syndicated sports talk show, The 2 Live Stews, have stood tall as community …

Harlem River Park Artwork Designed by Local Artists and Kids

Tylik Mejia wasn’t that excited about an opportunity to work with the Creative Arts Workshops for Kids to design a mural to attract people to Harlem River Park. “I declined …

‘At the Fights’: a heavyweight collection of American writers on boxing

‘At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing’ edited by George Kimball and John Schulian Library of America, 517 pp., $35 Blame it on Hemingway. George Kimball, in the introduction to …

Bookstore maintains link to African-American history

For 25 years Yusef Harris has promoted black awareness at Alkebu-Lan Images Bookstore, an independent bookstore that focuses on black history, education, self-help and spirituality. “I wanted products that reflect …

Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden gets Underway with Dig

Change, long discussed and planned, is taking shape and form these days in Lexington’s East End neighborhood. The latest evidence is materializing on a half-acre parcel of state-owned property near …