Save the Date: 30 Americans at the Corcoran Gallery
This fall, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design will open 30 Americans, a wide-ranging survey exhibition of works by many of the most important African-American contemporary artists of the last three decades. By bringing seminal artistic figures together with younger and emerging artists, the exhibition explores artistic influence across generations and sheds light [...]
Zanele Muholi: Indawo Yami
Indawo Yami
22 April – 29 May 2010
Michael Stevenson is proud to present a solo exhibition of new photographs by Zanele Muholi.
Muholi has made headlines in recent weeks, following Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana’s denunciation of her work on the exhibition Innovative Women as ‘pornographic’, ‘immoral’ and ‘offensive’. The minister’s comments were widely seen [...]
Interesting article about black artists
(thanks, Deb & Tuka!)
RACE ISSUE A TWO-EDGED SWORD FOR BLACK CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
By Blake Gopnik, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 24, 2010
They are called “knowledge cards” — a glossy picture on the front of each, some factoids to explain it on the back — and museums sell them in packs of 48, on all kinds of [...]
Extended Family: Contemporary Connections
New Presentation in Brooklyn Museum Contemporary Galleries, Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Now on View through Summer 2010
A new installation of contemporary art presents recent acquisitions displayed along with notable works that have entered the collection over the past five decades. The recent acquisitions range from younger artists such as Nina Chanel Abney, [...]
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- Taking a Break February 7, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
- A New Mission for Aperture? February 7, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]