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Nina Simone in 1965, Wikimedia Commons
Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Gains Support to Become a Historic Site

This past Satuday,…

"Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott," 2022. New Museum, New York. (L-R) See Colescott's We Await Thee, (1964), Nubian Queen (1966), and Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1968).
Colescott Retrospective “Art and Race Matters” is a Must-See
Fresh off its survey of Faith Ringgold, the New Museum presents a retrospective of another veteran African American painter whose aesthetic DNA courses through subsequent generations of black artists…
Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), Market Scene, 1966. Gouache on paper. Chrysler Museum of Art.
Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club
On the 65th anniversary of the creation of Nigerian-based culture and arts publication Black Orpheus and the 60th anniversary of Jacob Lawrence’s first exhibition in Nigeria, the Chrysler Museum of…
Exterior image of the store Halsted Hardware.
Gray Presents Theaster Gates: How to Sell Hardware
Theaster Gates: How to Sell Hardware—the artist’s latest installation in Chicago and third solo show at Gray—tells the story of Theaster Gates’s ongoing engagement with a family-owned store formerly…
An abstract, geometric painting with a centered collection of three objects-a trapezoidal orange piece, a triangular red piece, and a collection of rounded blue-purple objects.
Berry Campbell Presents Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring
The exhibition title, Soaring, is an homage to the late Dr. David Driskell’s essay, Soaring with a Painterly Voice, written on the occasion of Burwell’s 1997 survey exhibition at Hampton University…