• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership

black art

Posted inArt

Enter the Universe of Black Womxn Artists in the Bay Area

by Faith Adiele February 1, 2022February 2, 2022

The Black Woman Is God, an annual showcase of Black womxn visual artists, has become a staple of Black Bay Area culture.

Posted inArt

A Survey of Black American Portraiture Is a Revelation

by Caroline Ellen Liou January 16, 2022January 25, 2022

Black American Portraits features over two centuries of artworks centering Black artists and subjects.

Posted inBooks

How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze

by Tina M. Campt August 22, 2021August 20, 2021

Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.

Posted inArt

Nona Faustine’s Family Album

by Julia Curl June 26, 2021June 25, 2021

Faustine’s depiction of household shared by three generations of Black women presents matriarchy as a source of power.

Posted inArt

Six Black Artists Test the Limits of Portraiture

by Allison Conner February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

“The Black Index” at UC Irvine pursues knottier narratives of self-representation.

Posted inArt

How Swann Galleries Set the Stage for the Modern African American Art Market

by Cassie Packard December 10, 2020December 14, 2020

For the past 13 years, Swann has been the only major auction house with a department dedicated to African American art, setting auction records for artists such as Sam Gilliam, Faith Ringgold, and Charles White.

Posted inArt

What Does It Mean to Exhibit “Black Excellence”?

by Seph Rodney April 2, 2020April 19, 2020

Two shows in New York City take profoundly different approaches to the idea, but are worth comparing for how they represent being Black and talented or accomplished.

Posted inArt

Artists and Scholars Join to Discuss the Creation of Black Visual Archives

by Eric Vilas-Boas October 16, 2019October 16, 2019

The free-to-attend Black Portraiture[s] conference will focus on the creation of visual archives in the context of landmark moments in Black history.

Posted inArt

Seven Artists and Curators Reveal a Cherished, Overlooked Black Artist

by Jasmine Weber February 28, 2019May 17, 2022

I asked respected art figures like Lowery Stokes Sims, Deborah Willis, and Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi to share a beloved artist with me.

Posted inArt

An Annual Compendium of Black Photography that Was a Revolutionary Act

by John Edwin Mason August 4, 2017August 3, 2017

In 1973, a small band of black artists published the Black Photographers Annual, Volume I, a book that changed the history of photography in America.

Posted inArt

Can Abstraction Help Us Understand the Value of Black Lives?

by Chloë Bass July 28, 2016July 29, 2016

ST. LOUIS — Several months ago, I made the commitment to be away from New York City, my home and native land, for the duration of this summer.

Posted inArt

Three Museums Come Together to Tell a History of African American Art

by Janet Tyson March 16, 2016

MUSKEGON, Mich. — Common Ground, the Muskegon Museum of Art’s current exhibition of African American art, combines works from three regional Michigan collections: the Muskegon museum, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and the Flint Institute of Arts.

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts

Popular

  • They Tried to Make a Sexy Movie About the Eiffel Tower Engineer
  • "Brazen" Couple Tries to Walk Out of Manhattan Gallery With a Basquiat
  • Who Discovered Eva Hesse?
  • Missing Picasso Resurfaces at Home of Former Philippines First Lady
  • 10 Films to Get to Know Ukraine
Sponsored
  • Grassroots and Indigenous Environmental Leaders Convene for Land Circle Activation in Philadelphia
  • Black Mountain College Artist Jo Sandman Celebrated With Solo Exhibition and Catalogue
  • Call for Applications: $90,000 Fellowship for New Americans Pursuing Graduate School
  • Hyundai Motor Group Launches the Fifth VH AWARD for Emerging Asian Media Artists
  • Stanford Arts Hosts a Virtual Conversation With Amy Sherald and Calida Rawles
  • A Pathway Through Modern & Contemporary Armenian Art Dives Into an Often Overlooked History
  • Apply for the MFA Program in Book Arts & Printmaking at University of the Arts
  • National Museum of Asian Art Presents Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2022 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy