Photographers of Color Links #53

Aaron Turner

18 min readMar 5, 2021

February 2021

*Self Care*, 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 16 x 20” ©**Joel Whitely**

In conversation Joel Whitely & Aaron Turner - The Center For Photographers of Color

AaronTurner: Hi Joel, thank you for speaking with you about your work for this conversation. First, let's talk about…

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Afrofuturism - The Criterion Channel

Coined in 1994 by critic Mark Dery, the term "Afrofuturism" has become an essential framework for art about imagined…

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Space Is the Place - The Criterion Channel

Directed by John Coney * 1974 * United States Starring Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond Johnson Avant-jazz mystic Sun…

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Derek Fordjour

Derek Fordjour (b. 1974, Memphis, Tennessee) makes paintings, sculptures, and installations whose exuberant visual…

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In Deborah Roberts's Art, an Interrogation of What Society Imposes on Black Children

Deborah Roberts is making some of the best work of her life-just ask the artist herself. In "I'm," a solo exhibition…

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Celebrating Black History Month Climate Leaders | The Frontline | Atmos

It's February, so you know what time it is. All the fake-woke corporations and companies are launching their campaigns…

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Destinee Ross-Sutton Is Empowering Artists to Take Control of Their Markets

At just 25, the curator and dealer has opened her own gallery and developed a sales contract to discourage collectors…

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Michael Grant: Do You Want to Dance? - LENSCRATCH

To me, the archive is a complex site. Archives can reveal or hide, be hoarded or shared, harm or do good, tell the…

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Charles Burnett - The Criterion Channel

Charles Burnett is an unsung master of American cinema who led the way for black independent filmmakers to tell their…

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McArthur Binion Lands in Art History

'I don't see them as grids', says McArthur Binion of his 'DNA' paintings, 'I see them as shapes'. In this video, the…

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How Civil Rights Groups Used Photography for Change | JSTOR Daily

Photography has been a valuable tool not just for capturing activist movements, but for helping future generations…

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How Photography Tells the Story of the Civil War's Black Soldiers

When Deborah Willis was growing up, her teachers seldom mentioned the black soldiers who'd fought in the American Civil…

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The Minuta Stereo is a 3D stereoscopic pinhole camera that shoots 35mm or 120 format film - DIY…

Stereoscopic photography is a wonderful thing. Whether you're able to use it in serious client work or not, it's…

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Detroit Artist Noah Stephens Strives to Correct Misperceptions About City Through Photography |…

Detroit photographer Noah Stephens grew up in Highland Park "which some people consider a stepchild of Detroit" he…

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Shutterstock makes a $75 million bet that the future of photography won't always involve cameras

Take a second look at a stock photo of a coffee cup or soup can, and you may notice something: It's not actually a…

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2021 Emerging Scholars: Zora J Murff

W ith a focus on conveying anti-Black violence through photographs, Zora J Murff's work is inspired by how images…

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Picturing Others: Photographing in Appalachia - Part II - Six Feet Photography Project

Wednesday, February 3rd, 7 PM EST What is the photographer's responsibility to the communities they photograph when…

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David Hartt: On Architecture & Black Authorship

This February, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will open Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America…

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RECONSTRUCTIONS PORTRAIT: Emanuel Admassu on the global African diasporic

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Pace Gallery | On Radical Modernism, "Photographism," and Irving Penn

Grace CoddingtonGrace Coddington's remarkable contributions to contemporary fashion and image-making have shaped the…

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Studio: Stan Douglas | David Zwirner

To celebrate the debut of Stan Douglas's work at Penn Station's new Moynihan Train Hall, this presentation looks at how…

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'An American Project': For Decades, Dawoud Bey Has Chronicled Black Life

Here's a tip: If you're looking at one of Dawoud Bey's images, the photographer suggests you look not at the face, but…

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Wendel White - Blue Sky Gallery

February 4-March 27, 2021 Artist talk: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 The Manifest portfolio consists of photographic…

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Jon Henry - Blue Sky Gallery

Stranger Fruit 2020 En Foco Fellowship Exhibition February 4-March 27, 2021 Artist talk: Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 5:00…

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Emmett Till childhood home now an official city landmark

The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House in West Woodlawn became an official Chicago landmark after an expedited…

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Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 NBCC Awards - National Book Critics Circle

We're proud to announce the finalists for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, along with the winners of the…

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Announcing New Additions to Film at Lincoln Center's 2021 Winter/Spring Lineup

Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) announces updated titles for its Winter/Spring 2021 Virtual Cinema slate. FLC's Virtual…

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Spike Lee with Ashley Clark on BAMBOOZLED

In this program, produced in 2019, director Spike Lee and film programmer and critic Ashley Clark discuss BAMBOOZLED.

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Now Accepting Applications for the 2022 Creative Capital Awards | Creative Capital

The application for the Creative Capital Awards is competitive-of the thousands of applications we receive, we are only…

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Wendy Red Star: UCLA Department of Art Lecture | Hammer Museum

February 4, 2021 - With a practice spanning photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance, artist Wendy…

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Fellowships and Residencies Spring 2021 by - BOMB Magazine

Bethany Arts Community offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and…

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TO BALTIMORE WITH LOVE

UA celebrates the city of Baltimore with the UNDR ARMR x DVNLLN Collection This is a love letter. To a city that…

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Measuring Time - Ephraim Asili

Part of a new film artist's books imprint for VSW Press, Measuring Time by Ephraim Asili represents a transitional…

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How Corky Lee's legacy goes far beyond photography

With the expertise he garnered at his day job, Corky Lee squeezed Chinese characters into a sample ballot for the…

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Creating Images for the Archives of History 📸

Driven by curiosity, Bethany Mollenkof stumbled into a career of photojournalism, ultimately fulfilling a desire to…

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Life After Prison: Reclaiming Identity Through Photographic Portraiture and First-Person Narratives…

A photographer, photo editor, and formerly incarcerated author discuss the power of words and photos to reclaim life…

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Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with Rachel Kushner

WE CAN ALL AGREE NOW that American prisons are a malignant feature of contemporary life, broadening inequalities…

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Focus on Appropriation: Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay - LENSCRATCH

In Appropriated Figure Grounds, artist Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay reinterprets news images of powerful public figures to…

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Ming Smith's Photographic Tribute to August Wilson

The sacredness of ordinary Black life. The heirs to the legacy of the Great Migration in the United States. The…

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Amanda Gorman and Michelle Obama in Conversation

Amanda Gorman captivated the world when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden and Vice President…

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Theaster Gates's Extraordinary Photobook Reconsiders the Legacy of the Johnson Publishing Company

In 2018, the conceptual artist, archivist, and jazz musician Theaster Gates published The Black Image Corporation on…

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Endia Beal, Performance Review - Collector Daily

JTF (just the facts): Published in 2020 by Minor Matters Books ( here). Hardcover (9.5×12 inches), 128 pages, with 60…

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The Drawing Center: David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979

Major support for David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968-1979 is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts…

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In This Moment Chapbook Series

IN THIS MOMENT: Revolution Reckoning Reparation This project includes ten teams of Black writers and photographers who…

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Gordon Parks Was the Godfather of Cool

His gifts propelled him to a pioneering career as a photographer and filmmaker. His taste made him an enduring avatar…

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Renowned West Chester Quilter Named U.S. Artist Fellow

When the call came, West Chester fiber artist Carolyn Mazloomi was shocked. She thought it was a telemarketer. Instead…

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The Drawing Center: David Hammons, Photographs 1974-1980, by Bruce W. Talamon

In 1974, photographer Bruce W. Talamon documented David Hammons in his Los Angeles studio in the process of making his…

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United States Artists " 2021 Fellows

welcome Meet the 2021 USA Fellows-the storytellers, shapemakers, movement builders, and culture bearers practicing…

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Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America

t a time when black Americans are twice as likely to die of Covid-19 as their white counterparts while a reckoning…

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Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

From February 17 to June 6, 2021, the New Museum will present "Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America," an…

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RECONSTRUCTIONS PORTRAIT: Mario Gooden on the choreography of Black Spatial Praxes

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PRE-ORDER: Women Photograph 2020 Annual - Women Photograph

Pre-order the limited first edition of the 2020 Women Photograph Annual, the third issue in a series from Women…

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A Photo That Captures a Busier Bygone Era in New York

In each installment of The Artists , T highlights a recent or little-seen work by a Black artist, along with a few…

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Kamoinge's Collective Vision

A week before Thanksgiving, I had the special privilege of viewing "Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge…

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Apple Spotlights Black Photographers in New Shot on iPhone 'Hometown'

Apple is celebrating Black History Month by partnering with 30 black photographers. Across the US, Apple commissioned a…

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Gordon Parks: Beautiful photos of an ugly history

"LIBERTY OR DEATH," read the placards, the lettering stark black on white. "WE ARE LIVING IN A POLICE STATE." We can't…

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New HBO Documentary Connects Black Art's Rich History and Vibrant Present

Black Art also profiles artists and collectives. The film examines the work of the pioneering 1960s Black art and…

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Inheritance

A project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory

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Manifest - Wendel White

Manifest is an effort to seek out the artifacts and material evidence of the American construct and representation of…

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Art/Work - Revised & Updated

Heather Darcy Bhandari is the Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, a nonprofit exhibition and studio space program…

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Marisol Mendez's portraits of Bolivian women celebrate resilience in the face of ongoing…

Reading Time: 6 minutes Marisol Mendez holds a small card in her hands, a flyer promoting a sex club. Behind some…

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Painter Jordan Casteel, Who Portrays Her Subjects with Illuminating Detail, is Now Represented by…

MASSIMO DE CARLO announced its representation of painter Jordan Casteel, whose illuminating portraits capture detailed…

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Darby English

To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror the Research and Academic Program 1971: A Year…

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'A Love Song for Latasha' Director Sophia Nahli Allison: 'We Are Building the Future'

Sophia Nahli Allison 's "A Love Song for Latasha" (streaming on Netflix) centers on the life of Latasha Harlins, a…

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As Museums Push to Sell Art, Competing Ideas About Deaccessioning Are Playing Out in Public

"Museum directors, as a convention, learn art history in the classroom, and they learn economic management in…

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Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It

The Federal Writers' Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past. Image above: Portrait of Mollie…

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Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful - ICA Philadelphia

Jessica Vaughn (born 1983, Penn MFA '11) considers the everyday structures that inform our understanding of labor…

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Spring 2021 Online Exhibition OpeningIn Conversation: Jessica Vaughn & Nikil Saval, Moderated by…

Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful is a major survey of new and recent work by visual artist Jessica Vaughn. Within…

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Pérez Art Museum Miami renames endowment fund for Black art to reflect the wider diaspora

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has acquired artworks by Kwame Brathwaite, Gordon Parks and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones…

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Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers

Walter O. Evans, MD (1943-) is a philanthropist, collector, and surgeon. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Dr. Evans served in…

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Black-owned bookstore in Little Rock serving community for 3 decades

Pyramid Art Books and Custom Framing has had multiple Black celebrities walk in their doors, but the most important…

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Whispering for help - Marie Smith

Whispering for help is a series of annotated portraits documenting women of colour lived experience of their mental…

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Marvin Heiferman on Photography, Love, and the Loss of Maurice Berger - Humble Arts Foundation

Approaching the one-year anniversary of Maurice Berger's COVID-related death, his husband, photography curator and…

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Using Photography to Tell Stories About Race

I stood in the lunchroom doorway with my friend Kevin, bewildered. It was our first week at the High School of Music…

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Karen Navarro: la fotografia ai confini dell'identità

Nella società contemporanea non è facile parlare di identità. O meglio, se ne parla tantissimo, ma è complesso…

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In The Know Honors: Myles Loftin

Photographer Age: 22Hometown: Washington, D.C. Myles Loftin has already made a name for himself as one to watch in…

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Mellon Foundation Announces Five New Proposals Funded through the Monuments Project | The Andrew W…

As Part of Mellon's $250M Commitment Last Fall, New Grants Will Fund Five Projects Focused on Confronting the Past and…

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7 Independent Black Filmmakers To Watch

This year's awards season, which will kick off with the Golden Globes on Feb. 28, coincides with a time of critical…

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Black images matter: Shade, the powerful podcast unpicking the tumult of 2020

ou Mensah spent the 1990s working in PR but her favourite part of the job was not the to and fro with clients. What she…

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When Polaroid Workers Fought Apartheid | Dissent Magazine

Fifty years ago, a group of Polaroid employees launched the first anti-apartheid boycott of a U.S. corporation. Their…

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Crystal Z Campbell - Art Papers

Crystal Z Campbell collapses the past and present to historically contextualize the legacy of the theater and the…

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RaMell Ross photographs African-American life in Alabama

To be black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think about the…

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Culture Talk: Director Sam Pollard on His New HBO Documentary 'Black Art: In the Absence of Light'

Trailer for "Black Art: In the Absence of Light." | Video by HBO THE OPENING SCENE OF Sam Pollard's documentary "Black…

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Behind the Mask: Photographers Reflect on Black Vulnerability

A densely packed group show, We Wear the Mask foregrounds contemporary photographic takes on Black desire, rage, and…

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For Sky Hopinka, Wandering Is Both a Mode of Moving and Making

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY - Sky Hopinka's Breathings (2020) is composed of 16 photographs with no particular order. The…

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Introducing the Inaugural Silver List, Featuring 47 Exciting Contemporary Photographers Whose Work…

For more than 15 years the Black List, founded by Vanity Fair contributor Franklin Leonard, has featured the most-loved…

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Old-fashioned images evoke the complicated history of Black military service

Fulton Porter wanted to be a doctor, but "I didn't want to go to medical school with any loans," he says. "And I always…

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Gordon Parks: Half and the Whole @Jack Shainman - Collector Daily

JTF (just the facts): A total of 57 black-and-white and color photographs, alternately framed in white/black and…

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A Rashid Johnson Sketchbook | Magazine | MoMA

Rashid Johnson was on my mind as I installed the works on paper in Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury . His particular…

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Samella Lewis, Artist and Historian Focused on Advancing Black Art, Awarded CAA's Highest Honor

As part of its annual conference, which runs through February 13, the College Art Association, a U.S.-based…

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Jacob Lawrence Went Beyond the Constraints of a Segregated Art World

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America's most celebrated black artists. In Struggle, his series of…

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Examining Henry Taylor's Groundbreaking Paintings of the Black Experience

has created his Guernica, he said, it is Ancestors of Genghis Khan with Black Man on Horse. Painted between 2015 and…

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Decolonizing the Museum

In the February 25, 2021 issue of the magazine, we published " Deaccessioning Empire" by Coco Fusco, a review of two…

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Indianapolis Museum of Art Apologizes for Insensitive Job Posting

The museum wrote that it was seeking a director who would work to maintain its "core, white art audience," in addition…

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Sasha Phyars-Burgess announced as the first winner of the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship

Since 2009, Nikon Europe has been NOOR 's main sponsor to bring you unseen, untold, and unheard stories around their…

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Closed Nearly a Year, Empty Museums in Los Angeles Struggle

While many museums around the country have resumed operations, those in Los Angeles remain an exception. They have been…

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Aida Muluneh | LEST WE REMEMBER (MEMORIES IN DEVELOPMENT SERIES) (2017) | Available for Sale |…

Available for sale from VIVIANEART, Aida Muluneh, LEST WE REMEMBER (MEMORIES IN DEVELOPMENT SERIES) (2017), ARCHIVAL…

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A New Grant Will Digitize Thousands of Indigenous Oral Histories

Oral history, the practice of documenting historical moments through audio interviews with the people who were a part…

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Shade

Guest photographer Andre D Wagner The work of photographer Gordon Parks was shared widely during the 2020 BLM protests…

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In South LA's hand-painted signs and storefronts, artist Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin finds beauty in urban…

My Black LA is a community-generated archive project highlighting works by African-American artists, writers, and…

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National Gallery of Art Acquires Howardena Pindell's Seminal Video 'Free, White and 21'

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART (NGA) recently acquired "Free, White and 21" (1980), a seminal video installation by artist…

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The Careful Photograph

Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist and educator. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the…

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Sama Alshaibi - The Careful Photograph

Sama Alshaibi is a conceptual artist whose work grapples with displacement, war, and exile. In episode three, we sat…

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Aaron Turner - The Careful Photograph

Dear Students, Often times when I'm working in my studio, I have these reoccurring thoughts, mostly self-examining…

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Mercedes Dorame - The Careful Photograph

In this episode, we sit down with photographer Mercedes Dorame to discuss an image from the series EARTH THE SAME AS…

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Cinematic photographs of Baltimore after dark

Inspired by the Brassai's dramatic images of 1930s Parisian nightlife, the Baltimore-based photographer, Joseph M…

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Wayne Thom photographed the power of 1970s architecture. He's finally getting his due

Architecture photographer Wayne Thom lived at the Bonaventure hotel for a week in 1977 as preparation for taking one of…

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1,500+ Call for Museum President's Removal After Job Posting Cites "Core, White Art Audience"

More than 1,500 people have signed an open letter demanding the removal of Charles L. Venable from the helm of the…

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A Bold New Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland Calls Outs the Institution's Own…

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland is magnifying and aiming to rectify its own "anti-Black practices" in an…

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The Book Art of Harlem Renaissance Artist Aaron Douglas: A Bibliography

Jacket depicts the black silhouette of a traveling man on a raised set of rocks, an overnight bag behind him, looking…

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Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now

NEW YORK - The most ambitious exhibitions help to usher in new ways of seeing. The Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor, who…

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Curator Laura Hoptman Reflects on Meeting Artist David Hammons and Organizing Her New Show, the…

IN THE LATE 1960s, David Hammons developed an inventive method for creating monoprints, using grease, pigment, and his…

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Artist-in-Residence Open Studios

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The Week in Black Art, February 15-21, 2021: Art Institute of Chicago Hires People and Culture VP…

This post will be updated throughout the week Feb. 19, 2021 Art Institute of Chicago Appoints Leader of People and…

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Culture x Policy: (In)Justice System - The Shed

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Artist Talk: Sunil Gupta

Born in New Delhi, India, relocated to Montreal, Canada, before studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Sunil…

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Richard J. Powell Was Once Among Only a Handful of Scholars Dedicated to Black Art History. Here's…

This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See…

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Mellon Foundation Funds CLIR's Digitizing Hidden Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard…

The award supports a shift in thematic focus to collections of historically marginalized people, has a shortened…

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The Diaspora Suite

Asili's cycle of five shorts collapses time and space to reveal the hidden resonances between the Black American…

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New book documents shutdown of GM Lordstown plant through the eyes of its workers - LaToya Ruby…

WKBN-27 by Stan Boney LaToya Ruby Frazier spent nine months documenting the workers and their families LORDSTOWN, Ohio…

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Dexter McLean | New Artist Commission | Autograph

A new series of portraits reflecting on the impact of Covid-19 on the Jamaican community that surrounds the artist in…

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Lorraine O'Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture

And at 86, the pioneering conceptual artist isn't done yet. She's getting her first retrospective ever, at the Brooklyn…

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K. Kofi Moyo and FESTAC '77: The Activation of a Black Archive - Logan Center Exhibitions

K. Kofi Moyo and FESTAC '77: The Activation of a Black Archive resituates, and also finds a place for, a cache of…

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Filmmaker Garrett Bradley Captures Love As the Radical Thing It Is

There's a s c ene i n Garrett Bradley's 2019 short film America where a young girl cautiously peeks her head through a…

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Sasha Phyars-Burgess gently observes, and meditates upon, the Black lives around her in her first…

Hannah Abel-Hirsch joined British Journal of Photography in 2017, where she is currently Assistant Editor. Previously…

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Orion Magazine | Spark Bird

IF I CAN BE CALLED A BIRD-WATCHER, my spark was a pair of burrowing owls, painted on the narrow storefront gate of a…

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Dawoud Bey's 'Street Portraits' are a radical recentering of the Black community

The legendary photographer speaks with curator Natasha Egan about his relationship to his subjects and the…

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Between Feeling and Time: Brent in the 80s and 90s

"These photographs, as an offering to a community, invite us to share the atmosphere of a subject's inner being. They…

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The Big Review-Working Together: the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

In 1963, Jimmie Mannas made a photograph titled Mama, 139 West 117 Street, Apt. 4E, Harlem. In the image, a Black woman…

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David Driskell Was a Curator, Artist, Scholar, and Fervent Champion of Black Art

As a curator, David C. Driskell fervently championed Black artists. In 1976 he organized a watershed exhibition at the…

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The Power of the Kamoinge Workshop - The Paris Review

In 1963, with the civil rights movement in full swing, a group of New York City-based Black photographers began meeting…

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Dawoud Bey's 'Street Portraits' are a radical recentering of the Black community

The legendary photographer speaks with curator Natasha Egan about his relationship to his subjects and the…

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Identity and empowerment: Virtual photography exhibit highlights Black Americans, diversity in the…

Between 1910 and 1925, African American photographer John Johnson captured images of his friends and neighbors in…

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The Art Market Is Finally Paying Attention to Black Abstraction

Whitten, like so many of the aforementioned artists, developed his own distinctive vocabulary "which appeals to an art…

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Intersect 21

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Building Pathways to Power: Larry Cook and Myrtis Bedolla - BmoreArt

Of all Larry Cook's photo series, I find The Visiting Room to be the most mesmerizing, but also chilling. Cook depicts…

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Black Art: In the Absence of Light

Watch Black Art: In the Absence of Light, the original HBO documentary online at HBO.com or stream on your own device.

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Raymond Thompson Jr. and Wendel White in Conversation - LENSCRATCH

Today we share a conversation with two artists who work with Black histories, Raymond Thompson Jr. and Wendel White, as…

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Flint is Family in Three Acts - LaToya Ruby Frazier

Frazier first traveled to Flint in 2016, as part of a magazine commission to create a photo essay about the water…

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Dawoud Bey and Tonika Lewis Johnson 2021 Public Humanities Award Recipients

Please join us in celebrating our award recipients at the 2021 Public Humanities Award Extravaganza, a virtual, free…

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Troubling Images: Curating Collections of Historical Photographs | Harvard Art Museums

Lecture Leventritt Lecture Historical photography collections sometimes contain images that can be deeply troubling to…

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UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures - Performance Details

Past event with LaToya Ruby Frazier on 2/25/2021 5:00 PM, VIRTUAL. MacArthur Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses the…

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LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze

The Renaissance Society is pleased to present The Last Cruze, a substantial new book that expands upon LaToya Ruby…

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Kevin Jerome Everson on PARK LANES

This interview with director Kevin Jerome Everson was recorded in 2021.

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Favorite Criterion Channel Short Films Added in Februrary 2021 | 25YL

Each month, dozens of new films are added to the Criterion Channel . While the rich selection of feature-length classic…

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Deaccessioning Empire

About ten years ago I read a news story reporting that one thousand human skulls from Germany's former African colonies…

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In One Art Exhibition, Women Are 'Taking Space' They've Long Deserved

She was 22. One of three women in a class of 24. Her professor at the Philadelphia College of Art told her she was…

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Teju Cole speaks on anti-racist work and liberation in Power & Privilege Keynote

Teju Cole, a Professor of Creative Writing at Harvard University and acclaimed author and photographer, kicked off…

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How the Studio Museum in Harlem Transformed the Art World Forever

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Copeland Named BFC Presidential Associate Professor

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How the Wide Awakes Art Collective Mobilized a Roving Food Truck to Serve Some of New York's…

In the wake of the 2020 US presidential election, art-world activist collective the Wide Awakes remains dedicated to…

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Though they speak quietly, the films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun register with devastating emotional force. The acclaimed…

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Deana Lawson on Noah Davis | David Zwirner

Read an interview with the artist Deana Lawson about Noah Davis, excerpted from the acclaimed book Noah Davis…

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A Matter of 'Time': Director Garrett Bradley on Making the Year's Best Documentary

At the tail end of Time - the feature-length documentary that, since its heralded Sundance debut last year, has…

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Art Historian Sarah Lewis on Why Black Artists Have Been 'Over-Exhibited and Under-Theorized' |…

This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See…

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Housing Projects And Empty Lots. How Chanell Stone Is Reframing Nature Photography

When most people think about traditional nature photography, black and white images of towering mountains and rushing…

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Hugo McCloud's New Paintings are Made with Single-Use Plastic Bags: 'This Material Could Be Used as…

THE WORK OF Hugo McCloud has shifted profoundly over the past year. His latest paintings on view at Sean Kelly Gallery…

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The journey of James Presley Ball reflects the rich complexity of 19th-century America. As a member of a small but…

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Gordon Parks was one of the seminal figures of twentieth century photography. A humanitarian with a deep commitment to…

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I speak of a hero with Anger in his heart, with Fury in his fist, And terror in his sleep. Who Muhammad Ali is is what…

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RECONSTRUCTIONS PORTRAIT: Mario Gooden on the choreography of Black Spatial Praxes

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