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May 1, 2013
DETROIT (AP) - The 6 feet tall and a foot thick wall was built two decades earlier with a simple…
April 18, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — The public is invited to share their own inspirational quotes at a Times Square event tied…
April 18, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - More than 30 works by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will appear at a New York City exhibit…
January 22, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A library that covered up a drawing of a black female slave having sex with a…
December 9, 2012
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Art Basel Miami Beach 2012’s grand opening on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, was truly a world…
December 4, 2012
MIAMI - The eleventh edition of Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 commences on Thursday, December 6, 2012...
November 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Also known as "Flobama", the piece is a an Obama toy inside a mason jar of fake…
September 7, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge in New York has given two years of probation to an artist who…
July 30, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — In torn jeans and saddled with a black backpack, Andrew Witten glances up and down the…
June 5, 2012
Jean-Michel Basquiat's untimely death in 1988 has not ended the reverence that art collectors have for his work...
May 23, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Shepard Fairey, the artist behind Obama's 2009 'Hope' poster, made a a similar portrait for Trayvon Martin...
May 21, 2012
REVIEW -- With 'An Economy of Grace', Kehinde Wiley offers a sumptuous feast for the eyes and an addendum to…
May 9, 2012
SLIDESHOW - During that time, Harlem lost a third of its residents who sought refuge from its increasing crime and…
April 27, 2012
theGRIO Q&A - theGrio spoke with Glenn Ligon about art and self-expression, and the evolving place of black artists in…
April 17, 2012
DENVER (AP) - A Denver artist has created a portrait of Florida shooting suspect George Zimmerman using more than 12,000…
March 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening two new exhibits that retrace the history of the Civil…
March 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - ART START, a nationally recognized and award-winning non-profit organization for youth in New York City, uses art…
March 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The completed Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden will feature a group of life-sized statues depicting slaves, nestled in…
March 2, 2012
From the Huffington Post-- "This" refers to African American art, an area of dedicated sales that Swann pioneered back in…
February 28, 2012
Many of those portraits, which are between two and nine feet tall, are now on display at TriBeCa's Frontrunner Gallery,…