Art historian Kellie Jones gave a keynote speech Saturday morning at the Saint Louis Art Museum that had all the intricacy and spirit of an Oliver Jackson assemblage or an Eric Dolphy saxophone ...

Alteronce Gumby has had quite a year. After closing his highly successful dual-site exhibition, “Somewhere Under the Rainbow/The Sky Is Blue and What Am I,” this past summer at False Flag and Charles ...

Marshall McLuhan once wrote, “The medium is the message.” For Galerie Maximillian owner Albert Sanford, his medium is art. Since 1997, he has consistently shown some of the finest works on paper by ...

Installation view of the first gallery in Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art (installation photo courtesy BMA, by Mitro Hood) Jack Whitten, “9-11-01” (2006) acrylic and mixed media on canvas ...

Banner image: Rashid Johnson, a painter, sculptor, installation artist and filmmaker, in his Long Island, N.Y., studio on Dec. 16, 2020. (Credit: Jon Henry) When Megan O’Grady looks at a painting, she ...

With its chief characteristic being a breakaway from form, abstraction grants Black artists and Black viewers something they don’t always have in the material world — complete freedom. “It’s about the ...

Felrath Hines, Aerial Landscape, 1957; Oil on jute. Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Gift of Dorothy Fisher In 1998, Jack Whitten wrote in his personal journals thirty-two objectives for his ...