For Juana Valdés, her experience migrating to the United States in 1971 has significantly informed her thirty-year career. In Embodied Memories, Ancestral Histories at the Sarasota Art Museum, she continues to investigate not only her relationship to her homeland of Cuba, but also the colonization of the island, and its impact on gender and race. Through her use of sculpture, video, photography... Source ..read more

Visually conspicuous near the center of the Tampa Museum of Art, Pepe Mar: Myth and Magic dramatically separates itself from the other exhibitions. Throughout the museum, carefully situated wall didactics interrupt the gallery standard, self-effacing white walls and cement floors used to demarcate individual exhibitions. However, Myth and Magic confronts visitors with a lurid... Source ..read more

Halle Ballard’s Insider at Elephant Gallery in Nashville consists of large drawings and paper mache sculptures. Each of the works in Ballard’s show contain at least one big person and a multitude of much smaller people. I estimate the small people are between 1:8 and 1:16 the size of big people and I theorize the big people are mothers to the small people. One work is titled Sad Mom Swim Club. Yet... Source ..read more

A mouse on the mic. The image of white Jesus and African sculptures. Dirt bikes, African Fractals, and UFO crop circles. This may seem to be a disparate list, but in the eyes of artist Emmanuel Massillon, everything is connected. Contrasting imagery was ever present in Emmanuel Massillon’s Some Believe It To Be Conspiracy and Imprints of Connection, his debut exhibitions with the United Talent... Source ..read more

ARTPapers Arts Writing Workshop in New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline: November 3, 2023 The program’s goal is to develop diverse Black underrepresented voices in art writing, increase awareness of writing opportunities, build community among New Orleans-based writers, and encourage inclusive practices that can undo existing norms informed by structural inequity and exclusionary practices. Source ..read more

Hearne Fine Art Gallery in Little Rock, Arkansas, has exhibited artwork made by Black Americans for thirty-five years. The Gallery’s current exhibition, Perrion Hurd’s New Forms: Black Male Portraiture Through Afro-futurism, features black and white etchings of African American men, shrouded by halos with energized patterns. The title, “New Forms”, has a double meaning. Not only are these Hurd’s... Source ..read more

There is a moment at the start of Paul Pfeiffer’s single-channel video, Red Green Blue (2022), that I could return to repeatedly. Whistles blow. A timeout is called. The University of Kentucky’s offensive line raises their hulk-ish frames from their stances and turns in unison toward the sidelines. Between their blurry bodies, the camera focuses on one man, the University of Georgia’s Redcoat... Source ..read more

Anya M. Wallace is a visual artist and scholar born and raised in Florida. Currently, her studio, “The Laundry Building” is located in Bellefonte, PA. She is the Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Feminist Studies at Brandeis University. Wallace currently defines herself as a multidisciplinary artist, “At the moment, my art practice is making in a constant state of displacement—mobile... Source ..read more

ARTPapers Arts Writing Workshop in New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline: Applications opened September 8 and will be accepted until the program fills, after which time there will be a wait list option. The program’s goal is to develop diverse Black underrepresented voices in art writing, increase awareness of writing opportunities, build community among New Orleans-based writers... Source ..read more

Burnaway is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Art21. Art21 produces award-winning documentary films about the world’s most groundbreaking contemporary artists. Together, Burnaway and Art21 share a vision of expanding access to contemporary art. Beginning on October 6th, Burnaway’s 15th Anniversary, the website will host a series of Art21 films and related editorial content that feature... Source ..read more