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Nationwide — Dexter R. Merritt Sr. is the founder and CEO of Positive Black Images, a fine art publishing and distribution company in Gaithersburg, Maryland. After graduating from college in 1985, Mr. Merritt left Mississippi and settled in Dallas, Texas for eight years. As is the case with many graduates, he rented an apartment for […]

Art Market Ayanna Dozier Installation view of Independent New York, 2019. Photo by Etienne Frossard. Courtesy of Peres Projects and Independent New York. April showers bring May flowers…and the New York art fairs. Spread over two weeks, New York Art Week 2023 will provide ample opportunity for audiences to visit several staggering fairs, auctions, and […]

As the world celebrates Earth Day this Saturday, a Florida State University Department of Art professor is using art to teach people about water conservation and sustainability. During the Earth Day event, a team of conservationists inform the participants about water sustainability and encourage them to make a clay cloud in exchange for a Sawyer portable water […]

2022. Painted photography, 90 x 120 cm.Courtesy of AFIKARIS. The dominant trend in global contemporary art over the past five to ten years has been a foregrounding of artists from Africa and the African diaspora. Leading institutions and collectors worldwide finally realized how their historic neglect . . .

By Kat Klopp, Jackson Tiedens, Peyton Heath, Julie Tiedens and Briget Ganske, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs Transcript coming soon. “Not only am I an indigenous woman, I have friends and family that are indigenous women,” said Hannah Falcon, a student in Black River Falls. “It’s this epidemic of violence towards them. I don’t want […]

New Investments for More Diverse Leadership in Art Museums  Mellon Foundation Source link

Robert Boone’s Crossroads, 2022, was part of “The Promise,” an exhibition at the Speed Art Museum that was the culmination of a research and art-making program by the same name for Black community members affected by gun violence. Photo by Shantel Stubbs; courtesy of the artist and Speed Art Museum, Louisville Jump to beginning of […]

The Denver Art Museum is the only institution in the United States with a permanent gallery exclusively devoted to Latin American art from the turn of the twentieth century. The two small paintings in the museum’s collection discussed below, the only works by these artists in any American museum, showcase some of the artistic paradigms […]

Entering the room in black heels, a fashionable dress, and a large statement hat, Yennifer Fang struts across the grounds of the Cinematic Arts Building ready to discuss her newest film, “My Little Grandma.” “I came from a small town to Beijing, then to Indiana–Purdue University … I feel like it’s a very interesting journey […]

For many Americans, the year 1898 doesn’t conjure much significance. But for those living in Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, it marks a . . .


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