There are countless examples of the ways that Black creativity in America has literally changed the world — from jazz, rock, and hip-hop, to soul food, to literature, to the power of a picture. The ...
Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...
One of the most pernicious lies told by slaveholders and nations built on slavery to relieve them of their guilt contends that enslaved people, on occasion, benefitted from skills acquired while ...
Do you miss LACMA? I do. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched more than 60 years ago as an encyclopedic place to collect and explore global art history from the last 3,000 years. Now, history ...
During the late aughts and early 2010s, “Gulf Futurism,” a cultural concept articulated by artist Sophia Al-Maria, sought to articulate trends and changes affecting the region, where the advancement ...