The New York Times

Danielle Mckinney Never Thought Her Paintings Would Be Seen Like This

The artist, whose portraits explore leisure and repose, has suddenly found success in the notoriously fickle gallery world. The artist Danielle Mckinney, photographed at her Jersey City, N.J., studio ...
NPR

Mickalene Thomas makes art that 'gives Black women their flowers'

In Mickalene Thomas' art work, Black women are front and center. Her subjects are often at leisure, resting on couches and chairs, sometimes nude, and frequently accentuated by rhinestones and rich ...
Artnet

Claudette Johnson’s New Mural Recasts Picasso’s Famed ‘Demoiselles’ With Powerful Black Women

Over the next twelve months, as commuters walk down the steps of Brixton station in south London, they will find a triptych by British artist Claudette Johnson. In Three Women Johnson portrays a trio ...
WHYY

‘Black women in art’: 2 installations at the Delaware Art Museum tackle underrepresentation

The highlighted photograph within Shakira Hunt's installation, "Give Me My Flowers — Soft Pedals," embodies the essence of womanhood. (Courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum) From Philly and the Pa.
The New York Times

Kerry James Marshall on Making ‘the Paintings Nobody Else Is Making’

The artist’s blockbuster survey across nearly five decades at the Royal Academy of Art in London tackles Black history in all its complexity. Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy of Art in London ...
Hyperallergic

Imagining the Thoughts of Women Readers in Paintings

The website for The Reader, designed by Oliver Wise (screenshot via the Kadist Art Foundation by the author for Hyperallergic) The Reader also brings together many additional paintings of female ...
Chicago Sun-Times

‘Project a Black Planet’ a history-making survey of Pan-African works at the Art Institute

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Barron's

Rare Alexis Preller and Mohamed Melehi Paintings Lead Sotheby’s African Art Auction

A self-portrait by South African artist Alexis Preller and a piece from postcolonial Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi described by Sotheby’s as “career-defining,” will lead a sale of modern and ...
Artnet

Was Picasso Really Inspired by African Art? A Century-Old Debate Reignites

A new theory credits medieval Catalan art as Picasso’s inspiration for the iconic "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," but art historians are pushing back. Two people view Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles ...
CNN

Moroccan artist ‘empowering’ rural communities awarded prestigious contemporary African art prize

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...
WBEZ

‘Project a Black Planet’ is a history-making survey of Pan-African art

The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe after March 30. 🎧 Click the red listen button to hear WBEZ’s interview with ...