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News

Gee’s Bend Quilts, Purvis Young Works, and More Enter Five University Collections

Thirty artworks entered the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the RISD Museum, and the Hampton University Museum.

News

Souls Grown Deep Starts Unprecedented Resale Royalties for Artists

The Resale Royalty Award Program offers living artists 5% — the highest royalty threshold worldwide — of the proceeds from secondary market sales, at up to $85,000 annually per artist.

Art

One of Black Southern Art’s Greatest Advocates, William S. Arnett, Dies at 81

Through his scholarly and curatorial work, Arnett aimed to amend the conventional history of artmaking in the United States to center the significance of formally untrained Black artists.

Art

Outsider Art Comes to the Metropolitan Museum

The entry of works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation into the Met’s collection has prompted the museum to rethink the way it presents 20th-century art history.

Art

Choosing Between a Folk Artist’s Story and His Work

Ronald Lockett believed in magic. So said sculptor Kevin Sampson during a talk in July at the American Folk Art Museum.

Art

Artist Thornton Dial, an American Genius, Dies at 87

It has been said that when gods fall, the earth shakes.

Art

From the Deep South, an Overlooked Chapter in Art History

ATLANTA — Is Bill Arnett enjoying the last laugh?

In Brief

The Met Museum Nets Major Collection of Outsider Art from the South

The Metropolitan Museum has just received gift of 57 works by African American artists from the southern United States from collector William Arnett's Souls Grown Deep Foundation.