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Latest News in Black Art: Lorna Simpson’s Portrait of Brittney Griner Covers Time Magazine, Johnson Publishing Archive Ownership Transfer, First Major Monograph of Hurvin Anderson & More

  Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Time, Aug. 8/Aug. 15, 2022: Artwork by Lorna Simpson for TIME, Source photograph by Stephen Gosling—NBAE/Getty Images   Magazines Time magazine commissioned artist Lorna Simpson to illustrate its latest cover (Aug. 8/Aug. 15, 2022) featuring WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in ...

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Hallbankgate Hub’s new exhibition shows the work of Helen Alice Johnson

A new art exhibition featuring thew work of an international artist is available to view at a small yet popular venue. Hallbankgate Hub, in Hallbankgate near Brampton, is exhibiting work from artist Helen Alice Johnson. Helen is a professional artist with studios in Alston and northern France. Living and working in Alston, an area of outstanding natural beauty in Cumbria, Helen says she is ...

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UK prime minister Boris Johnson resigns—here are the art world’s reactions

Artists and cultural figures around the UK have been reacting to the news that the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned as the Conservative Party leader today, effectively ending his reign as prime minister. Johnson is planning on remaining in office until the autumn, as a new leader of the Conservative Party is selected.The political satirist Cold War Steve, whose DIY collages of ...

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Art Industry News: As a Student, Boris Johnson Was Passionate About Returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece + Other Stories

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, July 4. NEED-TO-READ Here’s How Few Statues in Britain Are of People of Color – Only two percent of the public sculptures across the U.K.—around 2,600 works out of 13,500—commemorate people of ethnic minority ...

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Latest News in Black Art: LACMA Acquires Beauford Delaney Painting, First-Ever New York Art Week, Installations by Fred Wilson and Rashid Johnson at LaGuardia & More

  Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   BEAUFORD DELANEY, “Negro Man (Claude McKay),” 1944 ( oil on canvas, 19.12 x 16.25 inches / 48.6 x 41.3 cm). | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the 2022 Collectors Committee with additional funds provided by the Robert H. Halff Endowment, the ...

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Tracey Emin Wants Her Art Out of 10 Downing Street, Where Boris Johnson Partied During Lockdown + Other Stories

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, January 20. NEED-TO-READ Smithsonian Names Director of the National Museum of the American Indian – Chavez Lamar, a member of San Felipe Pueblo tribe from New Mexico, takes up her new role as director ...

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How Rashid Johnson Effect the Change He Wants to See in the Art World – ARTnews.com

After meeting at a neighborhood bar a little more than a decade ago, Rashid Johnson and Joel Mesler became such fixtures together on New York’s Lower East Side—where Johnson lived and Mesler owned a gallery—that one day Mesler half-jokingly said to his friend: “‘Look, man, we’ve got to divide Orchard Street properly.” Mesler decided that he would commandeer the thoroughfare two blocks south of ...

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