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Esther Mahlangu, Esther Mahlangu exhibition, Esther Mahlangu Johannesburg, Esther Mahlangu South Africa, theGrio.com
December 29, 2024
89-year-old South African artist Esther Mahlangu’s unmistakable style is the focus of an exhibition honoring her and her work.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
March 13, 2024
Dalila Scruggs joins the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian American Art Museum as its first Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art.
July 11, 2022
Area artists feel cheated since Wesley Wofford was commissioned outright without officials requesting sketches or ideas from others.
June 2, 2022
Roshunda Jones-Koumba, theater director at G.W. Carver Magnet High School will receive the 2022 Excellence in Theatre Education Award.
Cleaster Cotton theGrio.com
May 28, 2022
The artist's mixed-media works highlight the complicated history and ancestral voices in her chosen home of Asheville, North Carolina.
Basquiat theGrio.com
May 27, 2022
A male and female duo managed to remove a Basquiat worth $45,000 from the wall of a Manhattan gallery before…
May 2, 2022
Several Houston artists are giving a crash course on CRT via an exhibition called “The Curious Case of Critical Race…
April 10, 2022
The $500,000 Crown Our Prince project will be carried out by Hiero Veiga, a Black Florida street painter. Painting to…
April 8, 2022
Last month, Nyla Hayes' "Long Neckie Lady" portrait sold on Instagram for $6,621.70. In February, she sold another piece for…
Theaster Gates theGrio.com
April 7, 2022
The Chicago-based artist and Prada launched the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab, an incubator for designers of color.
March 30, 2022
The Warhol estate and photographer Lynn Goldsmith's battle over a Prince photograph will go all the way to the Supreme…
Jean-Michel Basquiat theGrio.com
March 26, 2022
'Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©' is the first Basquiat exhibition to be staged by the late artist's family.
Mohammed Mubarak theGrio.com
March 12, 2022
Artist-activist Mohammed Mubarak honors historical Black and Los Angeles-based figures through murals throughout Hollywood.
February 7, 2022
In partnership with Afrofuturist scholars, the iconic concert hall will produce an over-80-event festival launching Feb. 12.
December 11, 2021
LL Cool J is the latest Queens hip-hop legend to be immortalized with a bronze sculpture by artist Sherwin Banfield.
October 23, 2021
Professor Rie Hachiyanagi went to colleague Lauret Savoy's Leverett home and said she needed emotional support because of a breakup.
October 23, 2021
The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center says it raised more than $500,000 in a bid for the Lee statue…
October 17, 2021
One of the pieces of artwork known as the Benin bronzes will be returned to Nigeria after being stolen years…
October 9, 2021
French president Emmanuel Macron says the country will return 26 pieces of African art to Benin to try to right…
theGRIO.com
March 23, 2021
A 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, titled 'Warrior,' sold for $41.9 million on Tuesday at Christie’s auction house in Hong Kong.