“Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right….
Next month, over 100 works by Black art stars from the couple’s collection will travel to the Great Hall for “Giants.” Call it an embarrassment of riches: The musician Alicia Keys and her husband Kasseem Dean, the producer and D.J….
ONCE UPON A TIME, you entered Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum to visit its world-class collection of early-twentieth-century abstract art, and then climbed a grand staircase to arrive at its Hall of Honor on the first floor. And once upon a time, that…
“My mission is very much aligned with liberating Black and brown people, because this is my life. I live as a Black woman every single day,” Cierra Britton says. “The lack of representation for women and femmes of color, in…
When I was younger, I was set on becoming a biochemist and making art would just be a hobby. However, about a year ago when I moved to America, I’ve been more interested in becoming an artist full-time. Ever since My teacher…
On a hot, spring day my friend and I decided to go downtown to St. Mark’s place to hang out. She convinced me to go to a punk rock clothing store, which I wasn’t opposed to, but admittedly I felt…
I love learning, so anytime there’s an opportunity to learn something new, I take full advantage. I’ve had the pleasure of studying at the League over the past several years through their work-study scholarship program and my work has always…
I am passionate about my art and am eager to learn in a professional environment. While I have taken other art classes in the past, I would like to take my work to the next level. I take my art…
A MAJOR TRAVELING EXHIBITION of Mickalene Thomas is launching next spring. “Mickalene Thomas: All About Love” opens at The Broad in Los Angeles on May 25, 2024. Thomas’s dazzling, rhinestone-embellished paintings celebrate Black women and examine the complexities of Blackness…
“I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.” MICKALENE THOMAS Happy New Year and welcome to 2024!…
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