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Latest News in Black Art: Remembering Virgil Abloh and Robert Farris Thompson, Sanford Biggers Wins Heinz Award, New Representation for Umar Rashid, Eric N. Mack, and Derrick Woods-Morrow & More

  Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Aritist and Designer Virgil Abloh (1980-2021). | Photo by Katrina Wittkamp, Courtesy MCA Chicago   Lives Virgil Abloh, the transformative designer and inveterate collaborator who made historic strides in the fashion world and provided opportunities for the next generation of Black creatives to follow ...

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Artists Tanya Aguiñiga and Sanford Biggers Win $250,000 Heinz Awards – ARTnews.com

The Heinz Family Foundation has given out its two annual arts awards this year to Tanya Aguiñiga and Sanford Biggers. They will each receive an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000. Aguiñiga, who is based in Los Angeles, is best known for an interdisciplinary practice that blends craft, sculpture, and performance to think about issues related to migration—particularly as it relates to the U.S.-Mexico border ...

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Sanford Biggers’s “7 Heavens” is a Quilted Portal to Black Liberation – ARTnews.com

Sanford Biggers’s 7 Heavens (2013) boasts a sublime ethereality. The seven-foot-square red-and-yellow-checked antique quilt—currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum—pulls the viewer in through the artist’s painted addition of a minimal yet exuberant gold form at its center, suggestive of a mandala with the spiraling contours of a pinwheel. Atop this form is a billowing cloud, presumably spray-painted upside down, as the paint drips impossibly upward ...

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Sanford Biggers Work Acquired Through Public Vote—and More – ARTnews.com

USLAF Announces First Round of Microgrants for Artist Projects The U.S. Latinx Art Forum, a professional organization comprised of artists, scholars, educators, and graduate students, has announced the recipients of its first round of the Charla Fund, a Ford Foundation–sponsored initiative that provides $400 microgrants to support informal artist-generated conversations. The format is open-ended and includes projects spanning curated Zoom conversations, artist studio visits, oral history ...

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Thousands turn out for open container event in Sanford for Small Business Saturday

SANFORD, Fla. – For the first time, a popular stretch of downtown Sanford allowed shoppers to walk around with open containers as part of an event promoting Small Business Saturday.It’s all part of a new push to entice old customers to come back and safely shop this weekend.Back on Halloween, downtown Orlando enacted a similar setup, but that ended up getting criticized for overcrowding.“We ...

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