NEW YORK: Barkley L. Hendricks

Heart Hands Eyes Mind February 28 – April 6, 2013 Opening reception: Thursday, February 28, from 6 – 8 PM JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY 513 West 20th Street New York, NY Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Heart Hands Eyes Mind, Barkley L. Hendricks’ first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will include photographs, landscape paintings …

Numéro Magazine ‘African Queen’ Editorial Uses White Model Ondria Hardin (PHOTO)

The Huffington Post  |  By Julee Wilson It was bad enough we had to report on T Magazine’s glaring lack of diversity in its relaunch issue, which was followed with an apology from its Editor-in-Chief Deborah Needleman. Now comes this racially-insensitive gem. Jezebel’s Laura Beck has pointed out Numéro magazine‘s use of a highly bronzed …

Feast for the Eyes: Red Rooster Harlem’s Recipe for Art

By Annette M. Rose-Shapiro Restaurant “art” doesn’t usually attract more than a cursory glance from diners— reproductions of vintage Lillet posters or landscapes in soft tones are the norm. But the carefully curated collection at Red Rooster Harlem has been given just as much thought as the menu. The restaurant’s chef and owner, Marcus Samuelsson, …

NEW YORK: Christopher Cozier

In Development January 25 – March 16, 2013 DAVID KRUT PROJECTS 526 West 26th Street, Suite 816 New York, NY  David Krut Projects is pleased to present In Development, Christopher Cozier’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition consists of mixed-media drawings on paper, recent monotypes and linocuts created at David Krut Print Workshop …

HFAS Kicks Off at The New York Stock Exchange

Dion Clarke, Founder of HFAS rings the Opening Bell Executives and guests of The Harlem Fine Arts Show visited the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 7, 2013 to commemorate Black History Month and Opening Night of the 4TH Annual Harlem Fine Arts Show. To mark the occasion, Dion Clarke, Founder of the Harlem …

Accused Murderer Jodi Arias Makes A Killing On eBay (PHOTOS)

David Lohr david.lohr@huffingtonpost.com Supporters of Jodi Arias, the woman accused of killing her former lover, are raising money for her by auctioning artwork she supposedly has created since her 2008 incarceration. Since Jan. 10, seven colored-pencil drawings have sold on the online auction website eBay, raking in $1,019.98 in winning bids. The 32-year-old aspiring artist …

Art by David Charles, Baltimore, MD

Baltimore artist David Charles creates his vibrant, provocative drawings from his childhood experiences watching his Northwest Baltimore neighborhood of Park Heights as it was ravaged by drugs, violence, poverty and police brutality. “I saw the R-rated version straight from the streets and whatever I experienced I created through art,” he says. read more……

SMC celebrates African American art

Ryan Sindon February 20, 2013 Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Top Stories Just in time for Black History Month, Santa Monica College held an opening reception for “African American Treasures: History and Art from the Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey” at the Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery on Friday evening. The collection is …

GMOA show highlights African-American artists William Johnson

By Andre Gallant Tragic lives in the art world are so common as to be unfortunately dismissible. Poverty. Infamy. Obscurity. Traits of certain artists have become the stuff of cocktail jokes. There is humor to be had, sure, but there also is reality and the weight of its stupid truths bearing down on a person. …

St. Louis Artist Depicts African American Fathers With Their Children

Cbabi Bayoc: Painting Possibilities Text | Erin Williams for St. Louis Public Radio For the past year, artist and businessman Cbabi Bayoc has attempted to create a portrait a day of a father interacting with his kid. The resulting project, titled “365 Days With Dad,” goes beyond showing fathers who go through the motions of parenthood, and …

IN PRINT: William Pope.L / Interview Magazine / February 2013

Somewhere between formalism and the concrete struggles of race and identity, artist William Pope.L makes works that literally pull people together TEXT | Ross Simonini PHOTOGRAPHY | Grant Delin Excerpt: Beginning in the late ’90s, William Pope.L famously crawled along 22 miles of sidewalk, from the beginning to the end of Broadway—Manhattan’s longest street—wearing a …