Jose Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Toni Schmale, and Shen Xin have won this year’s Baltic Artists’ Awards, which are given out by the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. Each of the four winners will be part of … Read More
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, announced today that it has created a new prize for emerging artists. Given out every two years to four artists, the award provides each winner £25,000 (about $31,500) toward creating new work and a £5,000 … Read More
In November, 1942, John H. Johnson founded the Johnson Publishing Company and began publishing Negro Digest. Modeled after Reader’s Digest, the weekly publication was the first to focus solely on African-American history, literature, arts, and culture. “People thought he was … Read More
The art season has barely begun, but fairs are already getting ready to open up, hoping to lure dealers and collectors from far-flung cities to make business happen in convention halls and tents. The very first major fair out of … Read More
By inventing her own genre, Cindy Sherman has influenced the way generations of artists think about photography, portraiture, narrative, and identity Read More
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