“Soul of a Nation” demonstrates different ways black artists from across the United States contended with issues of identity and representation and the role of art in a society pervaded with racism…
As you walk into David Kordansky's recently relocated gallery in Los Angeles, a creamy, nutty smell wallops you—the unmistakable scent of raw shea butter…
English will bring to the museum his expertise in work by black artists, and will collaborate mainly with curators in the painting and sculpture departments.
Though painter Jack Whitten dabbled in representation in the 1960s, abstraction has dominated his practice since then. His current show at New York's Alexander Gray Associates (through Oct. 12) offers…