"An authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley.The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public programs, artist residencies, and b ..."
"Published to accompany a travelling exhibition of his work, this volume is devoted to the photomontages of Romare Bearden (1914-1988), and considers their relation both to the rest of his oeuvre and to African-American art and culture. Bearden began creating these works in 1963 by incorporating images from magazines and other sources into montages and then photostatically enlarging them. These "projections", as he called them, marked hi ..."
"What if work by 21 prominent contemporary artists could be described in terms of familiar topics rather than specialized mumbo-jumbo? That was the idea behind Art: 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. Each of the four essayists takes one topic--place, spirituality, identity, or consumption--as the launching point for discussions of a varied group of American artists. Produced to accompany a PBS television series, this amply illustrated ..."
"This landmark book documents Simpson's career in its entirety, up to her most recent work. In doing so, it sheds light on the remarkable path that Simpson paved to global critical acclaim and art-world stardom"--Publisher's description."
"56) and thought it resonated with work by other contemporary figurative painters
like Jordan Casteel, Sedrick Huckaby, and Kadir Nelson (fig. 4). Nonetheless,
Sherald's portrait provided a fresh take on the genre of portraiture and offered a ..."
"A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most beloved artworks of our time. Kehinde Wiley's portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald's portrait of the former first lady have inspired unprecedented responses from the public, ..."
"Fully-illustrated exhibition catalog with 23 color plates and 6 gate-fold detail images. Exhibition at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York from April 7 to June 10, 2017. Features interviews with the artist and Courtney J. Martin and Thelma Golden. 108p. William T. Williams (b. 1942) is an African-American painter known for his talent in creating a synthesis between personal/cultural narrative and abstraction."
"In Eleven Museums, Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art & Leadership, Michael E. Shapiro, Director Emeritus of the High Museum of Art, interviews ten of the country's leading art museum directors about how they came into their leadership roles, the challenges they face, and what they see as the future of museums. Influential museum directors Maxwell L. Anderson, Kaywin Feldman, Thelma Golden, Michael Govan, Glenn Lowry, Annie Philbin, ..."
"Celebrated multimedia artist Kori Newkirk achieved notoriety by artfullytransfiguring pedestrian objects from African-American culture - likebeads, basketballs and hair picks - into symbols through which viewersare led to experience and interact with black beauty and life. The firstmajor publication of Newkirk's compelling work, this softcoverexhibition catalog features illustrations and full-color photographs thatchart Newkirk's creati ..."
"Samuel Fosso was born in Cameroon in 1962, Fosso spent his early childhood in Nigeria, but in 1970, due to the Biafra war, he was forced to flee to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Fosso started his career as a portrait photographer at the age of thirteen, using leftover film to shoot a series of self-portraits. He has since achieved international renown with his carefully staged, highly original self-portraits. Fos ..."
"Beautifully illustrated. Chrstin Y. Kim and Malik Gaines in conversation with Kehinde Wiley. Essays by Krista A. Thompson, Tavia Nyong'o, and Robert Hobbs. 64p. Catalog for an exhibition of the same name at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, July 17-October 26, 2008. Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is a Nigerian-American portrait painter, who is known for his highly his vibrant, large-scale, naturalistic paintings of African-Americans. He p ..."
"For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in "blockbuster" exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in the midst of this sea change, one largely unanswered question stands out: "What makes a great exhibition?" Some of the world's leading curators and art historians try to answer this question here, as they examine the elements of a museum exhi ..."
"The British Museum possesses one of the world's foremost collections of Egyptian antiquities. The selection of eighty-five objects featured within this fully illustrated catalogue comprises both renowned masterpieces and little-known treasures from the museum's collection and spans the full range of pharaonic history. Included are an introduction by Guest Curator Edna R. Russmann, Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Easte ..."
"W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” a prophecy that is as fresh and poignant today as when it first appeared in print in 1903. Now, one hundred years after The Souls of Black Folk was first published, Saving the Race reexamines the legacy of Du Bois and his “color l ..."