St. Louis Zoo’s Halloween Ghost Display Removed After Critics Say It Looks Like A Lynching (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | By Cavan Sieczkowski Posted: 10/17/2012 2:24 pm EDT Updated: 10/17/2012 2:24 pm EDT St. Louis Zoo officials removed a Halloween ghost display after some viewers called it offensive, saying the exhibit resembled slave lynchings. The Halloween ghost display in question featured about 10 ghosts with black faces hanging from tree branches …

Documentary Film ‘Why Do You Have Black Dolls?’ Explores Beauty And Cultural Identity (VIDEO)

  The Huffington Post  |  By Julee Wilson Posted: 10/17/2012 12:48 pm EDT “Why Do You Have Black Dolls?” is the title and question being tackled in a new short documentary film by director Samantha Knowles. The film’s title and premise stems from an experience Knowles had as a child when an inquisitive 8-year-old playmate …

African American Art Auction at Swann Auction Galleries

  HALE WOODRUFF (1900 – 1980) Landscape Near Grasse. Oil on canvas, 1930. 457×550 mm; 18×21 5/8 inches. Incised signature, lower left recto. Signed in pencil, lower right verso. Titled in pencil on the stretcher bars, verso. Provenance: Cunningham Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; private Vermont collection. Landscape Near Grasse is a striking Impressionist painting by Hale …

Old Masters of Our Domain

Contemporary artists rock art-history classics to pay homage, show off, have fun, and comment on issues like race and class By Robin Cembalest Posted 10/10/12 Among the many delights of “Picasso Black and White,” which opened at the Guggenheim last week, was seeing how the Spanish master treated his elders. This is apparent not only …

Beardenmania!

By Gail Gregg Posted 07/19/12 Exhibitions, concerts, artists’ tributes, and even a postage stamp are part of the centennial tribute honoring Romare Bearden The sight was a curator’s dream. Carla Hanzal, curator of contemporary art at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, looked in at her exhibition “Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections” on closing day …

How to be an African-American art lover: Why investing in original black art is affordable, easy and edifying

Al Johnson, This Everlasting Moment, 2012. Mixed media on panel with found objects in antique box, 14.5 x 32 x 2.5 in. – eMerge: Danny Simmons & Artists on the Cusp by Demetria Irwin | August 28, 2012 at 5:20 PM In today’s lean economic times, purchasing art might seem frivolous (and by all means …

Rihanna: Naked, Unapologetic on New Album Cover

by Free Britney at October 11, 2012 12:15 pm A naked Rihanna bares all on the cover of her new album Unapolegetic. It’s an aptly-titled name for the controversial singer’s record. Peep it: Unapolegetic is her seventh studio album. Rihanna Tweeted the art earlier: “The side effects of #R7 are starting to kick in, less …

Obama-Romney Debate Won By President (VIDEO)

Posted: 10/17/2012 12:48 am EDT Updated: 10/17/2012 3:20 am EDT HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — President Barack Obama stepped onto the stage here on Long Island ready to brawl. Within moments, he had called a Mitt Romney assertion “not true” and ridiculed his opponent’s five-point plan as a one-point plan — that one point being that the …

First Major All Street Art and Graffiti Auction in New York Is Now On

By Marina Galperina | October 16, 2012 – 12:15PM In about an hour, the Doyle New York Auction House will kick off its Inaugural Street Art Auction featuring graffiti and street art spanning from the 1980′s to the present. The 49 lots feature pretty much everyone, from Banksy to COPE2 to Faile to FUTURA to Dalek to D*FACE …

Bernette Johnson Set To Become Louisiana’s First Black Chief Justice

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN 10/16/12 09:50 PM ET EDT NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Supreme Court resolved a racially tinged power struggle inside its own ranks, ruling Tuesday that Bernette Johnson should be the state’s first black chief justice. Johnson’s years of appointed and elected service on the high court give her the seniority to succeed …

‘Visions Of Our 44th President,’ Exhibit Of Barack Obama Art, Opens At Detroit Museum (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post  |  By Kate Abbey-Lambertz Posted: 10/16/2012 3:10 pm EDT Updated: 10/16/2012 3:10 pm EDT Though they started out blank, the 44 busts of President Barack Obama in the gallery of a Detroit museum are now a wild array of color, pattern and style. “Visions of our 44th President,” a show at Detroit’s …