GEORFFREY HOLDER, “Swimmers II,” 1986 (colored pencil on paper, 91.4 x 116.8 cm / 36 x 46 inches). | © Geoffrey Holder, Courtesy the Geoffrey Holder Estate and James Fuentes   TRUE RENAISSANCE MEN, brothers Boscoe Holder (1921-2007) and Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014) were active across multiple artistic disciplines, including dance, choreography, music, acting, and painting. Born about a century ago in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, their Caribbean culture and heritage was foundational to the creativity they brought to the world and is on full display in the vibrant, figurative works on ..read more

Vice President Kamala Harris walks onstage to speak at the kickoff for the Reproductive Freedoms Tour, Monday, January 22, 2024, at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) District Council 7 in Big Bend, Wisconsin. | Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson   THE IMAGES ARE HISTORIC: Vice President Kamala Harris launching her Reproductive Freedoms Tour in Big Bend, Wisc.; disembarking on from Air Force Two upon arrival in Germany for the Munich Security Conference; meeting with Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny; and greeting ..read more

“Salon” (2024), a bronze installation by Alison Saar, was inaugurated on June 23, 2024, in the public garden of the Champs-Elysées in Paris, France. | Photo by Fred Mauviel, Courtesy City of Paris   THE PARIS OLYMPICS open next week and there is great anticipation and rampant speculation about how sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson will fare in Track & Field, whether Simone Biles is destined to dominate the Gymnastics competition again, and if NBA stars Stephen Curry and LeBron James can lead the USA basketball team to victory. American athletes are among the most closely watched at the in ..read more

THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART (PMA) is welcoming Audrey Hudson as the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Deputy Director for Learning and Engagement, a leadership role at the museum. Hudson brings a range of experience across academia, art education, museum learning, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices. She is joining PMA from the Art Gallery of Ontario where she was chief of education and programming and, this year, also took charge of the Canadian museum’s diversity initiatives. Her new appointment was announced this morning. Hudson officially starts at the Philadelphia M ..read more

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   THOMAS PRICE, Installation view of “As Sounds Turn to Noise,” 2023 (bronze, 110 3/8 inches high x 47 1/2 inches wide x 32 3/4 inches deep). | Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, Photo: San Francisco Arts Commission   PUBLIC ART Thomas Price Sculpture Debuts on San Francisco Waterfront The Embarcadero promenade in San Francisco, Calif., is popular with joggers so it seems fitting that British artist Thomas J. Price‘s sculpture of a young woman outfitted in running attire is now ..read more

THE SCAD MUSEUM OF ART (SCAD MOA) at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Georgia appointed Andreia Wardlaw director of the Walter and Linda Evans Center for African American Studies. The July 10 announcement described Wardlaw as “an experienced leader and community builder who is passionate about education and the arts.” She started in May. SCAD MOA Chief Curator Daniel S. Palmer said he was “thrilled” to welcome Wardlaw as director of the Evans Center. “The depth of her experience working in various aspects of African American studies and culture will be a tremendous resource t ..read more

WILL STOVALL, “Circus,” 2022 (oil on canvas, walnut frame, 15 1/4 x 26 3/4 inches / 38.7 x 67.9 cm). | © Will Stovall, Courtesy the artist and Ulrik   On View presents images from noteworthy exhibitions   FOR HIS FIRST-EVER solo exhibition, Will Stovall is presenting a series of intimately scaled paintings inspired by diagrammatical drawing and German philosophy. After earning a Ph.D., from Yale University, with a dissertation on democratic politics and the institutional imagination of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas (2018), Stovall turned to painting. “Will Stovall: Kant Crisis ..read more

Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Jaynelle Hazard. | Courtesy Georgetown Galleries   APPOINTMENTS Georgetown University Art Galleries Welcome New Director In Washington, D.C., Georgetown University’s College of Art & Sciences recruited Jaynelle Hazard (above) to helm its art galleries. Hazard was appointed director and chief curator of both the Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery and the Lucille M. & Richard F.X. Spagnuolo Art Gallery. She brings experience in the Washington region. Since 2020, Hazard h ..read more

An Evening with Faith Ringgold: Serpentine Galleries hosted a conversation with the artist, conducted by Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist at Conway Hall in London (June 6, 2019). | Photo © Talie Rose Eigeland   AN EXTRAORDINARY ARTIST known for her political paintings and story quilts, Faith Ringgold, (1930-2024) lived a long and productive life. When she died on April 13, she was 93. Born in Harlem, Ringgold lived and worked in Englewood, N.J. Active for more than six decades, she did it all. Ringgold was an artist, activist, educator, and author. Her artistic practice bridged fine a ..read more

AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER AND RESEARCHER, Thandi Loewenson (b. 1989) wants to learn more about the connections between land and African liberation and dig deeper to understand how the racist exploits of colonialism have influenced not only dispossession and redistribution of surface terrain, but also bear on resources below ground and high up in the atmosphere. Loewenson is thinking about the continent’s natural resources and the mined metals vital to producing the world’s technology, as well as the digital cloud and weather systems. She just won a major fellowship to support the project. Harv ..read more