With 100 Pounds of Blue Pigment, an Artist Conjures Spirits of the Past
The ghost of George Washington Carver hangs over the studio of Amanda Williams, where hues are inspired by the Alabama soil ...
African mythology and folklore collide in William Villalongo’s entrancing velvety portraits
Much has been written about Henry Box Brown’s body. The 33-year-old enslaved man from Virginia was 5′10″ and around 200 pounds in the spring of 1849 when he forced himself into a wooden box not much ...
Removing D.C.’s BLM Plaza doesn’t erase history
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is correct in removing the Black Lives Matter street art on 16th Street NW, which is within ...
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How Sculptor David Altmejd Taps into the Collective Unconscious Through Material
I always thought my job as an artist was imposing order on chaos, but I realize now that chaos has its own intelligence… and is the very source of creation.” ...
What Happened to Black Adam?
A perfect example of this is the character that many people blame for the death of the DCEU — Black Adam. Black Adam is ...
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Rare portrait of enslaved man goes on display in New Orleans. 'He was walking a fine line'
A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...
NJ arts groups fear what comes next amid flurry of changes by Trump administration
Is Donald Trump taking a wrecking ball to NJ arts? Many groups fear that new executive orders about grant funding and DEI ...