Oct 30, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
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Nicole Fleetwood grew up in a small, poor town in southwest Ohio, and saw friends, neighbors, and family members go to prison, some for large crimes, most for small ones. She kept in touch with her relatives while they were incarcerated, trading back and forth...
Oct 21, 2020 | Art, New York, News & Trending
Sheer chance and an observant art enthusiastic are the heroes of the day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where a long-lost painting has been restored to its collection. The collection, titled Struggle: From the History of the American People, is...
Oct 16, 2020 | Art, News & Trending
In June, while the world was following America into widespread protests about racial discrimination in justice and treatment, Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and two other activists made a pointed speech about the plunder, still ongoing, of art from African nations by their...
Oct 9, 2020 | Culture, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending, Organizations
It’s common for modern historical pieces – films, novels, etc – to include black figures in ways that previous iterations of the genre never did. For instance, the BBC series Merlin included a black Guinevere, played by Angel Coulby. Netflix’s 2020 series...
Sep 9, 2020 | Culture, Exhibitions, News & Trending
In April 2019, Notre Dame burned. Its tower collapsed in and the 800-year-old oak beams blazed to charcoal while the world watched live. Many were shocked to learn that it was the cathedral’s first major fire in its long life. It survived both World Wars and two...
Aug 12, 2020 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Profiles
The Red Children’s Art Museum, in Detroit’s North End, also known simply as The Red, is a space dedicated to displaying and archiving art by Detroit-area youth, and to teaching a new generation of artists, from free-play art ‘classes’ for...
