Belinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean born writer, sound artist & educator based in London. Her work explores Afro-diasporic research & narratives; how art & education can be used as intersectional tools. She was the 2016/17 Institute of ...
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Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Is Jointly Acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art
Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, marking the first time the museums have jointly bought a work. It is also the first acquisition of a ...
Los Angeles Theatre Commits To BIPOC Artists After Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Pulls Show Over Lack Of Representation
"As an Angeleno and a lover of theatre, I think Los Angeles audiences deserve an equitable showing of the playwrights working in the U.S. right now." In October playwright Jeremy O Harris announced that he would begin the process of removing his ...
An Alabama Quilting Collective Receives $250K to Build a Museum
The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy, a nonprofit in Alberta, Alabama, has received a $250,000 grant from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership to build a museum honoring the legacy of a historical quilting collective that ...
Sculptor Simone Leigh is Representing the United States at 2022 Venice Biennale
Simone Leigh will represent the US at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, making her the first Black woman to secure the prestigious commission. Leigh was selected by theU.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her ...
A London Museum Wants to Relocate a Statue of Its Slave-Trader Founder
London’s Geffrye Museum has changed its name to the Museum of Home, but the institution’s statue of former namesake Robert Geffrye, an English merchant and slave trader, is still a source of controversy—and the government is preventing the ...
RELEASE OF DISSIDENT CUBAN ARTIST
Artists Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, John Akomfrah, Julie Mehretu, and Carrie Mae Weems are among those calling for the release of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who has been in police custody at a hospital in Havana for over three weeks. The Cuban ...