Interview
The Queer Art that Helped Define Post-Blackness
In his collection of essays, Derek Conrad Murray explores questions of post-blackness by drawing on the artworks of Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Kalup Linzy.
Kehinde Wiley
Art
A Sprawling Show of Artists as Social Critics
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Spanning several media, much of the work in Us Is Them makes social commentary from the perspective of underrepresented populations. Notably, the show features some of the biggest names in contemporary African-American art, bringing the focus on the fraught nature of black existence
Art
Three Museums Come Together to Tell a History of African American Art
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.
Art
Finding Jesus, "YOUR MOM," and Other Surprises at the 2016 Armory Show
The 2016 edition of the Armory Show art fair opens to the public tomorrow, but already during today's preview piers 92 and 94 were crawling with collectors, curators, and critics.
Art
Kehinde Wiley Paints the Precariousness of Black Life
Much has been made of the current Kehinde Wiley retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.
Art
How the Identity Politics of 'Empire' Play Out on Its Walls
Not 10 minutes into the pilot episode of Fox’s TV drama Empire, Kehinde Wiley’s bright yellow portrait “Prince Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria” looms into view above the dining room table where the men of the Lyon family are gathered.
Art
Kehinde Wiley's "Politics of Perception"
The California-born, Yale-educated, Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley is an oddly polarizing artist, whose massive figurative paintings inspire both rage and adoration from his viewers.
Opinion
What to Make of the Village Voice's Offensive Kehinde Wiley Review?
If you're looking for a very generous review of the Kehinde Wiley exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, read Roberta Smith. If you're looking for one that's startlingly homophobic and racist, read Jessica Dawson.
Art
The 2015 Armory Show in 23 Superlatives
The 2015 Armory Show delivers pretty much what you'd expect of the 2015 Armory Show: some quite good art, some pretty bad art, and a lot of completely harmless stuff in between.
Opinion
Kehinde Wiley Paints Santigold
I'm as big a a fan of Santigold as anyone, “L.E.S. Artistes” (2008) may be one of my favorite songs by her, but her new cover is of particular interest to the art set.
Art
Going Contemporary at the Armory
If the art world has been about globalism for quite a while I can say that is more true now than ever — if that's possible.
Art
Global Africa Project Dissects the Idea of Africa
The Museum of Art and Design, New York's The Global Africa Project makes an audacious claim: to present the art, design, architecture, and craft of the contemporary African diaspora. Given that Africa is the world’s second largest continent, with a population of over one billion dispersed among 54 d