A Quite Contrary Alphabet Book Asks, How Did Our Gardens Grow?
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.
By Celia McGee
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.
By Celia McGee
The new book by Lauren Elkin examines artists who’ve defied conventions and expectations, including Carolee Schneemann, Eva Hesse and Kara Walker.
By Jennifer Szalai
New monumental works are filling landscapes and galleries, where they argue for the freedom and power to play.
By Emily Lordi
The Rubells open a new contemporary art museum, extending their reach to the capital with some 200 works and a nod to Marvin Gaye.
By Robin Pogrebin
Films like ‘Us’ and the recent sequel to ‘Candyman’ are part of a much longer tradition of storytelling, one that often wrestles with the gruesome history of racism.
By Gabrielle Bellot, Renee Cox and Danielle McKinney
A mega-show of MacArthur fellow artists — Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, David Hammons and Nicole Eisenman among them — has community on its mind.
By Ted Loos
Sketches from Kara Walker, wild designs from a hot architect-turned-artist, and a photo diary from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
By Siddhartha Mitter
Kerry Washington on Beyoncé, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kendrick Lamar, Oprah Winfrey on Toni Morrison. This is the black art that is defining the century.
By The New York Times
A look back at what we watched, heard, read, liked and shared.
By The New York Times
For our art critic, the greatness of black visual culture, past and present, mainstream and outsider, was repeatedly asserted during the 2010s.
By Roberta Smith
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