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Robert Colescott

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Robert Colescott’s Indecorous Truths

by John Yau July 21, 2022July 28, 2022

Colescott’s use of stereotypes and humor continues to make viewers feel uncomfortable because it jabs indelicately at our complicity.

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In Never-Before-Seen Drawings, Robert Colescott Satirizes Art History

Avatar photo by Caroline Ellen Liou March 5, 2021March 8, 2021

In his “Complete History of World Art,” Colescott skewers notions around propriety, race, beauty, and art.

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Consciousness, Conflict, and Contradiction in the Art of Robert Colescott

Avatar photo by Erica Cardwell November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

After viewing Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott — the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective to date — it feels fair to assume that factions of society still aren’t ready for Colescott.

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Remembering Robert Colescott as a Kind of Trickster Figure

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 11, 2019October 11, 2019

Art historian and curator Lowery Stokes Sims discusses why she wanted to present as complete a picture of Colescott’s work as possible in this retrospective at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.

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Robert Colescott’s Frank Snapshots of Racism and Misogyny in the US

Avatar photo by Abe Ahn April 24, 2018April 23, 2018

Colescott reached the heights of a master painter, becoming one of the first prominent artists to embed black bodies and social critique into the art historical canon.

John Sloan, "Helen at the Easel" (1947), casein tempera underpaint, and oil-varnish glaze on panel (some Shiva Ponsol colors used), gift of the John Sloan Trust
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The Open-Ended Narratives of a Small Museum

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli June 24, 2017June 26, 2017

What if Abstract Expressionism never happened?

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From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 2, 2016July 5, 2016

Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.

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