Art
A series of panels, talks, and screenings — including Spike Lee's latest and the documentary Do Not Resist — marks the 25th anniversary of the uprising that followed the acquittal of four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King.
Art
A series of talks and events between March 28 and 30, co-presented by the African-American Policy Forum, examines the role of black women and girls in the struggle for civil rights.
Art
An exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem about organized protests asks if they can push us to recognize our shared humanity.
Art
Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies.
Opinion
First you see red. Red halts the traffic. An undulant corpus of red women crosses the Bowery and flows toward the New Museum, breaks into an arc and then a circle
Art
This past Saturday, protesters gathered in Baton Rouge to protest the death of Alton Sterling, an African American man shot to death while being arrested by white police officers.
Interview
The death of the photograph has been announced more than once.
Art
I Can’t Breathe, now on view at the Art Gallery at the College of Staten Island, is a dissonant show.
Opinion
The argument is that Beyoncé’s “Formation” is complexity masquerading as simplicity. But it’s also simplicity pretending to be more complicated.
Art
MINNEAPOLIS — A year ago this week, some 2,000 demonstrators converged in the Mall of America rotunda to protest the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black men at the hands of the police.
Interview
LOS ANGELES — Over the summer, a group of artists invited the public to talk critically and humorously about race, art, and survival in a context where they could not only vent frustrations but also share resources and build community as people of color.
Art
Part of the exhibition curator's goal was to challenge preconceived notions of what race is, as well as the idea that it’s definable, that it even exists.