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A Washington DC art gallery has abruptly cancelled two exhibitions featuring Black and LGBTQ+ artists, prompting accusations that it has caved in to Donald Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes. The Art Museum of the Americas, run by the Organization of . . .
America Has a Problem: What the Beyoncé Bowl and Kendrick Halftime Show Can Tell Us About Black Artists Embracing “American” Culture Wesleyan Argus Source link
A US cultural venue based in Washington has cancelled two shows – one featuring queer artists, and one featuring Black artists – to comply with orders from President Donald Trump not to use government funding for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The Washington Post reports that the Art Museum of the Americas, a cultural venue […]
If you are looking for information on how representation in museums and the art market has evolved over time, here is a broad selection of takeaways from the Burns Halperin Report 2022. Female Artists In Museums Mary Beth Edelson, Some Living American Women Artists (1972). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art. Only 11 […]
In one of his famed self-portraits, Omar Victor Diop, a Senegalese photographer and artist, wears a three-piece suit and an extravagant paisley bow tie, preparing to blow a yellow, plastic whistle. The elaborately staged photograph evokes the memory of Frederick Douglass, the one-time fugitive slave who in the 19th century rose to become a leading […]
What has been the impact of race, and racism, on African-Americans working in the theater world? How should that world change? Those questions have taken on renewed, impassioned life since the killing of George Floyd, the shooting deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and the nationwide protests over racial injustice that have followed. On […]
Black artists have long been a part of the country music industry, lending some of their cultural influences to arguably one of the most American of music genres. However, they have often faded into the background of an industry that is stereotypically attributed to white patriotic, conservative and rural communities. Beyoncé’s formal entry into the […]
Tuesday, Feb. 7 through Wednesday, Feb. 15 marks International Week of Black Women in the Arts, a time used to celebrate and acknowledge the work and art Black women create. The week serves to promote issues that can plague Black women different artistic spaces, like getting underpaid or being one of few women in the […]
At first glance, a painting in the new exhibit “Becoming the Sea” might seem off-topic. In it, a Black father is caring for his children. Curator Dexter Wimberly sees a direct correlation between “Not Without Laughter,” by Tajh Rust, and the show’s theme. Why We Wrote This A story focused on The relationship between Black […]
Hundreds of artworks by mainly Black Brazilian artists are returning home The Guardian Source link