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Celebrating Black Artists for Black History Month: Lorraine O’Grady
Feb 28 2022
Black History Month is a powerful occasion to recognize, learn from, and reflect on Black stories, histories, and legacies in America. Join us in taking this time to celebrate and highlight Black artists and some of the books that we have had the privilege to publish on these artists.Born in
Celebrating Black Artists for Black History Month: Beverly McIver
Feb 12 2022
Black History Month is a powerful occasion to recognize, learn from, and reflect on Black stories, histories, and legacies in America. Join us in taking this time to celebrate and highlight Black artists and some of the books that we have had the privilege to publish on these artists.Beverly
Celebrating Black Artists for Black History Month: Kara Walker
Feb 04 2022
Black History Month is a powerful occasion to recognize, learn from, and reflect on Black stories, histories, and legacies in America. Join us in taking this time to celebrate and highlight Black artists and some of the books that we have had the privilege to publish on these artists.Born in
The Overdue Recognition of Lorraine O’Grady, Trailblazer of the Conceptual, Black Feminist Avant-Garde
Apr 20 2021
A look into the work and career of artist Lorraine O'Grady is also a chronicle of the art world's exclusionary politics. As Cassidy George writes in an article for Vogue: "O’Grady—both then and now—saw the city’s art scene for what it was: an elitist world defined by hierarchies of race, gender, and
Watch: Jordana Saggese previews her new Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader
Feb 11 2021
This guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square Show in New York City. By 1982, at the age of twenty-one, Basquiat had so
Black History Makers & Risk Takers: Artists
Feb 20 2020
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li