Art Forum

Tyler Mitchell on photographing his American pastoral

Artnet News

Is Atlanta’s Art Scene Finally Achieving Critical Mass? There Are Big Signs That Point to ‘Yes’

At 26, Cierra Britton Is Already Fulfilling Her Dream: Opening an Art Gallery Dedicated to Supporting Women of Color

Simone Leigh’s Assembly of Black Feminist Creativity in Venice Left Me in Awe

Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results Are Refreshing

Artist Series on Social Practice

Artist Derrick Adams Is Known for Depicting Black People at Leisure. Now, He Wants to Create a Residency Dedicated Solely to Rest

How Do You Judge the Value of Social Practice Art? Artist Helina Metaferia Developed Metrics to Determine if a Project Is Successful

‘That Just Shattered Things for Me’: Rick Lowe on the Moment He Realized His Art Had to Escape the Studio to Have Real-World Impact

‘It’s All Art’: Legendary Gallerist Linda Goode Bryant on Why She Doesn’t Like the Term Social Practice, and How Feeding People Is a Creative Act

Artist Series on Abstraction

‘As an Artist, You Look at Everything’: Emerging Painter Patrick Alston on How His South Bronx Home Infuses His Abstract Art

‘My Imagination Ran Wild’: Alteronce Gumby on How His Expansive Style Draws Inspiration From Both Picasso and Music Sampling

‘There Are Always More Questions’: Abstract Painter Mary Lovelace O’Neal on Creating Art That Refuses to Be Boxed In

‘You’re Going to Have to Deal With Me’: McArthur Binion on How He Kept the Faith in Abstract Painting, Even When It Wasn’t Fashionable

Academic Series on Black Art

Art Historian Sarah Lewis on Why Black Artists Have Been ‘Over-Exhibited and Under-Theorized’

Art Historian Darby English on Why the New Black Renaissance Might Actually Represent a Step Backwards

‘Approach Every Black Artist as a World-Maker’: Art Historian Bridget R. Cooks on the Need for an Expansive Definition of Blackness

Decades Ago, Richard J. Powell Was Among Only a Handful of Scholars Dedicated to Black Art History. Here’s How He Has Seen the Field Change

ARTnews

Amoako Boafo’s Launch of Ghana Residency Was a Reminder of the Country’s Growing Arts Scene

Pace and Black Lunch Table Are Opening the Gallery’s Library to the Public for the First Time

Anthony Akinbola’s Durag Paintings Ponder How Objects Become Status Symbols—Or Can Be Easily Fetishized

Artsy

Betye Saar’s Deeply Spiritual Works Reflect on Over 50 Years of Lived Black History

Nonprofit ARTNOIR Continues to Empower Artists of Color with a New Scholarship for MFA Students

8 Black Art Advisors Transforming the Art Market from the Inside

The Brooklyn Rail

Karon Davis: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Onyedika Chuke: The Forever Museum Archive_Circa 6000BCE

Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen?

Kennedy Yanko: Postcapitalist Desire

Dominic Chambers: Soft Shadows

Eyes of the Skin

CULTURED

Artist Ferrari Sheppard Finds Solace in Renditions of Black Joy

Five Shows to See in Miami Right Now

In Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka King Tells Fred Hampton's Story in Vivid Color

Six Tapped-In Collectors and Creators Explore Valentino Collezione Milano

Tschabalala Self Presents the Beauty of Black Women in Her Own Terms

Through Augmented Reality, NEW INC and ONX Studios Celebrate Juneteenth

Art Advisor and Curator Anna Hygelund Finds Beauty in the Unexpected at Malin Gallery

Art Advisor Eden Williams Champions Artists of Color on the East End

FRIEZE MAGAZINE

America Is Reflected in Michael Ray Charles’s Minstrel Show

Frieze Artadia Prize-winner Jessica Vaughn Rethinks the American Landscape

HYPERALLERGIC

Miami’s Fountainhead Residency Presents The Yearbook: 2022

Psychedelic and Sardonic, Janiva Ellis’s Paintings Offer Visions of a Divided Nation

In Gem-like Hues, Arcmanoro Niles Renders the Mundane Electric

PAPER MAGAZINE

Ysa Pérez Rediscovers Her Puerto Rican Roots in the Wake of Disaster

PHOTOGRAPH MAGAZINE

Ming Smith’s Transcendent Vision

Isaac Julien’s Pictures and Progress

McArthur Binion & Jules Allen: Me and You | Gray Gallery, Chicago