After Rescue by Four Artists, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named ‘National Treasure’
Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, and Adam Pendleton purchased the structure last year for $95,000.
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“Blackness in Abstraction”
More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…
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The Power of the Press: Artists Celebrate Ebony and Jet at The Studio Museum in Harlem
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…
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Must-See Museum Shows to Make You Think, or Cry
Identity remixed in provocative displays at the Jewish Museum, the New Museum, the Whitney, and Tate Modern
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Ellen Gallagher
Active crosscurrents of racial politics and abstraction wash over the 20 works shown in Ellen Gallagher’s exhibition, nowhere more turbulently than in An Experiment of Unusual Opportunity (2008)…
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