Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa
By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving a platform to voices that have long been…
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Pierce Brosnan unveils deeply personal paintings in 1st solo art exhibit
By LESLIE AMBRIZ - Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pierce Brosnan has attempted to write about himself many times, but it’s through painting that…
Five years after his Obama portrait, Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere all…
By JOCELYN NOVECK - AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Kehinde Wiley was already well into his influential art career when his portrait of Barack Obama…
Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere. But he’s still thinking about…
By JOCELYN NOVECK - AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Kehinde Wiley was already well into his influential art career when his portrait of Barack Obama…
Kehinde Wiley is taking his art everywhere, all at once
By JOCELYN NOVECK - AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Kehinde Wiley was already well into his influential art career when his portrait of Barack Obama…
Stories told in stitchery at Folk Art Museum’s quilt exhibit
By KIM COOK - Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — From simple geometric shapes to the intricately wrought details of daily life, the quilt designs in a…
For BLM’s Patrisse Cullors, art is both vocation, salvation
By JOCELYN NOVECK - AP National Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrisse Cullors was sitting at a table outside the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, the art collective…
MacDowell artist retreat org taps Chiwoniso Kaitano to lead
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NEW YORK (AP) — MacDowell, one of the oldest artist residency programs in the U.S., has tapped Chiwoniso Kaitano as its new executive director, the…
Controversy, frivolity mark day one of Paris Fashion Week
By THOMAS ADAMSON - AP Fashion Writer
PARIS (AP) — The pioneering Black performer Josephine Baker -- who left the United States to find global fame in…
Paris couture season kicks off with frivolity, seaborne life
By THOMAS ADAMSON - AP Fashion Writer
PARIS (AP) — Schiaparelli kicked off haute couture season Monday with plenty of glamorous frivolity and…