Feb 23, 2019 | News & Trending
Conversations surrounding the role that art institutions have played in perpetuating systemic racism have inspired the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) to issue a formal statement on the matter. The statement, titled “Acknowledging MICA’s Racist Past As We...
Mar 14, 2018 | News & Trending
After former President Barack Obama’s official portrait was released Feb. 12, 2018, rumors surfaced that New York-based artist Kehinde Wiley had previously painted black women decapitating white women. While these rumors might sound outlandish at first, Snopes has...
Dec 23, 2015 | Art, New York
It’s no secret that much of Western art—the kind that often ends up in places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art—features veritable oceans of white people. And while that’s not great overall, one Manhattan man is very angry at the Met for including four paintings in...
