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The Whitney Biennial 2024, titled "Even Better Than the Real Thing," opens its doors on March 20, 2024. This prestigious exhibition, showcasing some of the most innovative and provocative contemporary art, returns to the Whitney Museum of American Art for its eighty-first installment. Book Advance Tickets 0:00
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Henry Taylor Henry TaylorHenry Taylor’s imprint on the American cultural landscape comes from his disruption of tradition. While people figure prominently in Taylor’s work, he rejects the label of portraitist. Taylor’s chosen subjects are only one piece of the larger cultural narrative that they represent: his paintings
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Henry Taylor’s imprint on the American cultural landscape comes from his disruption of tradition. While people figure prominently in Taylor’s work, he rejects the label of portraitist. Taylor’s chosen subjects are only one piece of the larger cultural narrative that they represent: his paintings reveal the forces
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Get ready for a weekend of pure artistic magic at Bushwick Open Studios 2023! Over 100 creative spaces have thrown open their doors just for YOU. Come join the coolest community event in town! Hang out, make new friends, and discover incredible local talent. Support your neighborhood artists in style!
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Here are your personalized Uristocrat Notes for Monday, May 15th, 2023. Some of your headlines for today: * Sports Roundup: Tatum drops 51, Lakers in the Conference Finals, Victor Wembanyama road to the NBA * Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once * Is This The End for Ghana’s
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Bio Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and received his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary
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Damien Davis (b. 1984, Cowley, LA) is a Brooklyn-based artist who was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. His practice explores historical representations of Blackness by unpacking the visual language of various cultures, questioning how societies code/decode/recode representations of race through craft, design, and digital modes of production. His work
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HBCUs At many HBCUs, just 1 in 3 students are men. Here’s why that matters. There’s a dearth of men at many of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities. Whether it’s sociology at Claflin University or media law at North Carolina Central University, sometimes there
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Selloane Moeti is a painter and a performance artist from eMagabheni, KwaZulu-Natal. She studied Fine Arts at Durban University of Technology. Selloane Moeti’s paintings weave multiple narratives and cultural references drawn from cleansing and healing, dislocation and relocation, and her ongoing attempts at tracing and understanding her lineage as
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Barkley L. Hendricks was an American painter and photographer who revolutionized portraiture through his realist and post-modern oil paintings of Black Americans living in urban areas, beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. Hendricks’ depictions of the Black figure exude attitude and style. The artist culled subjects for his hagiographic portraits
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South African painter Sakhile Mhlongo specializes in portraiture painted on fabric and canvas using acrylic and oil. Over the years, he has painted large-scale realistic portraits, using found fabrics or jacquard cotton as canvases. The fabrics used as canvases were usually discards of curtains, so they allude to domesticity and
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Born in 1945 in Americus, Georgia, Winfred Rembert was a son of the ‘Jim Crow’ American South. In 1965, he was thrown in jail after a Civil Rights demonstration, and two years later survived a near lynching. This pivotal, harrowing experience was followed by seven years in the Georgia prison