Russ & Daughters Exhibition Goes On View in New York, Sam Gilliam at Dia:Beacon, and More: Morning Links from September 13, 2019
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Sam Gilliam
Color in Landscape
As Sam Gilliam's work has gained ever greater recognition, his story has often been characterized as a comeback (though he never left) or a rediscovery (though he wasn't lost).
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From the Archives: An Interview with Sam Gilliam, in 1973
"I think there has to be a black art because there is a white art," the painter said.
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‘Public Fiction: The Conscientious Objector’ at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, California
See images from one notable show every weekday.
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‘Picturing Mississippi, 1817–2017’ at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
See images from one notable show every weekday.
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“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”
“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…
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Career-Spanning Sam Gilliam Show at Mnuchin Gallery in September Will Be Artist’s First New York Gallery Solo Exhibition in 32 Years
The most prominently placed artist at this year's Venice Biennale is Sam Gilliam, whose new drape piece hangs above the entrance to the central pavilion in the Giardini, greeting visitors to…
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You’ve Gotta See This!: Artists Are Luring Their Peers and Predecessors Out of Obscurity and Back into the Spotlight
In 2008 New York feminist artist Judith Bernstein was having her first show in decades at Mitchell Algus Gallery, presenting her iconoclastic "Horizontal" series, large-scale drawings of phallus-like…
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SNMAAHC in the Middle of the Mall: Art Is the Chapel in This Mega Church
In the Jorge Luis Borges story from 1945, "The Aleph," we are told of a sphere, secreted in a dark cellar, in which all the spatial infinitude and plenitude of the world can be seen simultaneously…
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Dallas Museum of Art Acquires Sam Gilliam Painting
The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired Sam Gilliam’s 1970 painting Leaf. The first work by Gilliam to enter the museum’s collection, the painting was acquired under the…
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