You can call Awol Erizku’s art history-inflected photographs whatever you want — just don’t call them “urban.” “I hate when people label my work urban,” he says. “Just because it’s African American subjects or people of color it’s not urban.” His recent Renaissance-inspired portraits at Hasted Kraeutler replace the stiff aristocrats of centuries past with [...]
Kerry James Marshall and the Art of Black Nationalism
July 17, 2012 | Posted by
It’s a sunny weekday afternoon in April, and Kerry James Marshall is showing me around his lived-in studio on a quaint residential stretch of Chicago’s South Side, taking a break from fine-tuning a handful of canvases. The artist — who is renowned for his painted musings on art-historical oversights and for taking on the African [...]
Hale Woodruff Murals from Talladega College Featured in New Exhibit at High Museum
June 17, 2012 | Posted by
After 70 years in the library at Talladega College in Alabama, six murals by artist Hale Woodruff are on display in Atlanta. They tell the story of not only the early years of the school, but also of an event that changed history. The six colorful murals at the High Museum of Art, known as [...]
