“On one occasion I stumbled upon THE SWEETFLYPAPER OF LIFE and proudly brought it home…. I was excited to see the photographs: it was the first book I had ever seen with ‘colored’ people in it

Identity and Affirmation: African American Post War Photography Currently on Exhibition at: California State University, Northridge Art Galleries Identity and Affirmation: African American Post War Photography consists of 145 images produced by Los Angeles artists, exploring modernist tendencies in the work of the artists as they embraced and depicted the vibrant development of the arts, music, [...]

Artist and Photographer, Lyle Ashton Harris who is featured in the upcoming feature documentary “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” was in conversation with photographer and painter, Chuck Close, at the New York Public Library as part of the New York Public Library Artist Dialogue.

It wasn’t exactly a sucker punch, but Jules Allen was struck by what he found upon entering into Gleason’s Gym: sweat-soaked champs and punch-drunk pugs. Gangsters and posers. Men with hats, stogies and secrets. The leonine and the louche. Wiry trainers possessed of supreme cool and confidence. New York Times, Blog – Lens, October 14, [...]

This fall, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents a group of approximately 12 new photographs and video works by artist Hank Willis Thomas. In his exhibition Strange Fruit, Thomas explores how

A Dream Fulfilled, Martin Luther King Memorial Opens Now we know: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it leads to a picturesque glade beside the Tidal Basin, with the Washington Monument providing sentry. After more than two decades of planning, fund-raising and construction, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial — a [...]

“For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” was organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Maurice Berger, who is a research professor at the university, partnered with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The [...]

On an April Sunday in an artfully cluttered Harlem apartment, a group of photographers leaned over a coffee table, jazz playing softly in the background. Radcliffe Roye was about to present some work. “We’re not finished,” said Adger W. Cowans, the vice president of the group. “You think I’m going to take this laying down?” [...]

    The first major mid-career retrospective of works by New York-based artist Glenn Ligon recently opened at the Whitney Museum in NYC. In this 2008 interview with Thomas Allen Harris, for the upcoming  film Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and Emergence of a People, Ligon reflectes on some of the influences in his [...]

Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium – @ NYU April 2-3, 2011 Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium Event Date and Time: April 2, 2011 – April 3, 2011 Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 2-9pm Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium expands on the original concept of the gathering, as art historians, designers, visual artists, filmmakers and writers use design, media [...]