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A key figure in the blue-chip art market as well as a symbol of luxury, Jean-Michel Basquiat never lacked a market following both throughout his short yet explosive career and after his death at age 27.  Back in 1983, as the young artist rose to fame and success, he set out to create three large-scale […]

(CNN) A mother in Miami says she was shocked and outraged after the staff at her children’s day care shared photos with parents of students in blackface as part of Black History Month. “You’re a certified, established institutions, you should know better. I mean, ignorance on — about racism in 2023 is no longer ignorant, […]

When the charismatic Swiss-Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh took over the helm of Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa ( Zeitz MOCAA) in May 2019, she made it her primary mission to focus on individual artists. ‘So many ideas and positions [about Africa] have been lumped into group shows, and not enough work has […]

James Little, Fat Star, 2022, oil and wax on linen, 72 x 72”. Poised and self-assured, James Little stands beside a pair of buckets, each filled with a different shade of black paint, in the Brooklyn studio where the artist has worked for three decades. The Memphis-born painter of absorbing abstractions—whether hallucinatory monochromes or variegated, […]

When We See Us Celebrates 100 Years of Black figuration in painting  Mail and Guardian Source link

Written by Leah Dolan, CNN As explored in the new Sex Pistols miniseries “Pistol,” directed by Danny Boyle, the punk subculture flipped the script on fashion, music and especially beauty. Instead of being used as tools for physical improvement, hair and makeup were suddenly severed from their typical mission: Appealing to a potential mate. In […]

The price for the 13-inch by 11-inch Black Truck from 1967 has astounded the art world.Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd A Maud Lewis painting just sold at auction for the hammer price of $350,000. That’s a lot of cheese. The price for the 13-inch by 11-inch Black Truck from 1967 has astounded the art world, […]

Max Starks had no problem admitting his limitations. The former Steelers offensive lineman and Steelers Radio Network sideline reporter, knows football inside and out. But when it comes to his artistic skills, well, let’s just say he isn’t calling himself an artist. “I mean, if we’re going on a scale of toddler to Picasso, my […]

It was just a few days back that a Lucknow girl flogged down a cab driver at a traffic intersection and now a new video of the same girl has been found online wherein she can be seen screaming at her neighbours because they coloured a wall of their home black.  The girl, identified as […]


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