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Sharing honors
from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's
black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old
woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced
artist looking for love in many of the wrong places.
Simone Leigh has used her agency as an
artist to turn her exhibitions at various art institutions into platforms for everything
from yoga classes to natural healing centers; at the New Museum this past summer, Leigh staged a protest and celebration by 100
artists assembled under the name Black Women Artists for Black
artists assembled under the name
Black Women Artists for Black
Artists for
Black Lives.
Focusing on the work of
black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color from the mid-1960s to the mid-1
black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color from the mid-1960s to the mid-1
women artists, We Wanted a Revolution:
Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color from the mid-1960s to the mid-1
Black Radical
Women, 1965 — 85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color from the mid-1960s to the mid-1
Women, 1965 — 85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of
women of color from the mid-1960s to the mid-1
women of color
from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s.
Arguably one of today's leading
artists, Mickalene Thomas stands out
from the pack because of her ability to own the legacy of Dadaism as a
black lesbian
woman.
In an interview with Kehinde Wiley, the
artist explains why he shifted his focus
from black men to
women.
BOOKSHELF A number of recent exhibition catalogs have featured
artists from the
Black Arts Movement and AfriCOBRA in particular, including «Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of
Black Power,» «Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,» «The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now,» and «We Wanted a Revolution:
Black Radical
Women, 1965 — 85.»
The curators expound upon a score of topics,
from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Just Above Midtown Gallery, The
Black Photographers Annual, and Emory Douglas and the Black Panther newspaper to abstraction shows, black women artists, FESTAC» 77, and the Wall of Respect and mural move
Black Photographers Annual, and Emory Douglas and the
Black Panther newspaper to abstraction shows, black women artists, FESTAC» 77, and the Wall of Respect and mural move
Black Panther newspaper to abstraction shows,
black women artists, FESTAC» 77, and the Wall of Respect and mural move
black women artists, FESTAC» 77, and the Wall of Respect and mural movement.
THE LO - DOWN
FROM 1987: No
black woman had ever been chosen for a Whitney Biennial since 1973; Of the 30 non-white
artists who had been in the biennials since 1973, only 3 have had work acquired for the museum collection; More than 70
artists had been chosen for more than one Biennial.
The National Museum of
Women in the Arts is presenting works by 21 black women artists working in abstraction from the 1960s to the pre
Women in the Arts is presenting works by 21
black women artists working in abstraction from the 1960s to the pre
women artists working in abstraction
from the 1960s to the present.
Other
women include another
black artist in Mildred Thompson with Galerie Lelong, nudes by Jane Freilicher with Paul Kasman, thickly woven paintings by Harmony Hammond with Alexander Gray, mixed media on dark monochrome by Carol Rama at Fergus McCaffrey, and glitter - soaked rags
from Lynda Benglis with Cheim & Read.
2017 Third Space: Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL We Wanted a Revolution:
Black Radical
Women, 1965 — 85, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Magnetic Fields: Conversations in Abstraction by
Black Women Artists 1960 - Present, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL Approaching Abstraction: African American Art
from the Permanent Collection, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Making Space:
Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Time Is N ♀ w, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY MIDTOWN, Salon 94 at Lever House, New York, NY
Except for a smear of blue by Norman Lewis, Michael Rosenfeld avoids color, but with a striking mix of
black and white
artists, both men and
women,
from the 1930s to today.
Here, gelatin silver photographs and photograms — taken
from the
artist's personal archive made over the years and used both altered or unmodified — are layered into compositions, along with pieces of sheer
black or tan fabric that allude to
women's hosiery.
When in 2014 white
artist Joe Scanlan introduces a character played by a
black woman into the Whitney Biennial, the mostly queer and
black Yams Collective withdraws
from the show.
Group Island Press: Recent Prints, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2018 Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, 2018 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 The Unhomely, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, 2017
Women Painting, Miami Dade College, Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 New Faces, Different Places, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM 2017 The Home Show, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM, 2016 Girls Who Dance in Dissonance, Wayside, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 Surface Area: Selections
from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2016 Self - Proliferation, Girls» Club, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2016 Faces and Vases, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016 Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts Cultural Center, curated by
Black Salt Collective, San Francisco, CA, 2016 Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2015 Paula Wilson & Jovencio de la Paz, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, 2015 Perception Isn't Always Reality, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, 2015 DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside — Out Art Museum, curated by Tomas Vu, Beijing, China, 2014 - 2015 Lake Effect, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, curated by Mike Andrews, Saugatuck, MI, 2014 I Am The Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Organized by Josephine Halvorson, New York, NY, 2013 Sanctify, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2012 Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, Curated By Teka Selman, New York, NY 2012 Art by Choice, Mississippi Museum of Fine Art, Jackson, MS, 2011 The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY, 2011 Art on Paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2010 Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 41st Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, 2009 - 2010 Carrizozo
Artist's Show, Gallery 408, Carrizozo, NM, 2009 - 2010 While We Were Away, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999 - 2009, Tsingha University, Beijing, China, 2009 Collected.
interdisciplinary
artist / writer / performer Kenyatta AC Hinkle's makes loose energetic drawings with handmade brushes while dancing, and
from these works she creates poignant un-portraits of
black women who have gone missing via erasure.
«There was a tendency, particularly in the»70s and»80s, to pigeonhole
artists — you were a
woman artist, you were an
artist from the South, you were a
black artist,» explained Jennifer Burris, co-curator of the show along with
artist Park McArthur, as we strolled past a button - down shirt covered in painted crosses, a totem - like sculpture made of pill bottles, and a postcard scrawled with the words «Here is a good solid
woman,» each underlined emphatically with glitter.
2015 Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African American
Women, Allentown Art Museum of The Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA SELF: Portraits of
Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum of Art, New York, USA Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections
from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA Status Quo, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA Breath / Breadth: Contemporary American
Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, USA To Be Young, Gifted, and
Black, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Because they took issue with Joe Scanlan — a white male — for masquerading as (and profiting
from) Woolford, a fictitious
artist portrayed by two hired
black women, Jenn Kidwell and Abigal Ramsay.
Co-curated with Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, «Cinema Remixed and Reloaded:
Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970» (2008) presented work by 40 women artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United St
Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970» (2008) presented work by 40 women artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United
Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970» (2008) presented work by 40
women artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United St
women artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United
artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United States.
Curated by Daniella Rose King Opening Reception: June 11, 2017, 3 - 6 pm LaKela Brown Nontsikelelo Mutiti Sam Vernon Patrice Renee Washington Lachell Workman We Buy Gold presents THREE.: On Visibility and Camouflage, works
from Black Women Artists for
Black Lives Matter, opening on Sunday, June 11th
from 3 - 6 pm at 387A Nostrand Avenue in Bed - Stuy, Brooklyn.
The late Italian
artist's watercolor drawings
from the late «30s and early «40s depict
women masturbating with big
black snakes or inspecting headless men with six penises in the place of one.
«
From its very inception, an exhibition about
black women artists working in this medium was groundbreaking.
ARTIST»S STATEMENT Coming
from a long line of Louisiana
Black Creole sex workers, courtesans, concubines, temple prostitutes, voodoo priestesses, shamans, and witchy
women the lure and lore of this form of renumeration has long held me in fascinating rhythm.
2005 Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; Palmer Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Back to
Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; New Art Gallery, Warsall, England Eye Contact, American Painting and Drawing, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art
from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA Art of Engagement, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA How American
Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970 — 1975, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Bringing together students
from the
Artist's Coalition,
Black and Muslim Student Associations and
Women's studies class, the Guerilla Girls visit St. Kate's University and amp up for next year's takeover.
1973
Women Artists in the Museum Collection, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Dimensional Prints, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ahmanson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art of
Black Culture, California State University, Humboldt, CA Eight
Women Artists from Los Angeles, Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA
Black Mirror, Womenspace, Los Angeles, CA In a Bottle, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Black USA: 1973, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
Lake's groundbreaking early work includes «A Genuine Simulation of...» (1973 — 74), a series of photographic self - portraits retouched with Covergirl makeup, and Miss Chatelaine (1973), a grid of
black - and - white photos of the
artist, each embellished with a different hat or head of hair cut
from Chatelaine, a Canadian
women's magazine.
In an interview with Artnet today, Christopher Y. Lew, who co-curated the biennial, said that Open Casket would remain on view, rejecting
artist Hannah
Black's call in an open letter for the work's destruction because Schutz is a white woman benefiting from black tr
Black's call in an open letter for the work's destruction because Schutz is a white
woman benefiting
from black tr
black trauma.
In 1969, he became a founding member of the
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), which formed coalitions with other artists» groups, protested the exclusion of women and men of color from institutional and historical canons, and advocated for greater representation of black artists, curators, and intellectuals within major mus
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), which formed coalitions with other
artists» groups, protested the exclusion of
women and men of color
from institutional and historical canons, and advocated for greater representation of
black artists, curators, and intellectuals within major mus
black artists, curators, and intellectuals within major museums.
Drawings
from the
artist's ongoing The Evanesced series focus on the erasure of
Black women from the African Diaspora, will take over the Gallery's walls.
This exhibition is the final episode in the
artist's series on Colonial America, his successful combining of art, history, and sometimes wicked but always fun - to - read commentary on people — Europeans adventurers and explorers, North American Indians, freed and enslaved
blacks, and ravishing
women who love, laugh, and die on the banks of the Hudson
from Manhattan up to Lake Oneida.
But Fort Gansevoort flips the script on millennia of male - dominated athletics with art works by thirty - one
women made between the mid-twentieth century and now,
from Elizabeth Catlett's jubilant 1958 print of a barefoot girl jumping rope to a just - finished collage of a pigtailed boxer by Deborah Roberts, a young
artist who borrows the Dadaist strategies of Hannah Höch for the era of
Black Lives Matter.
From Derrick Adams's inventive adaptations of politically - charged designs by black fashion pioneer Patrick Kelly, to Firelei Báez's reimagining of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party to grant women of color their rightful seat at the table, artists are resurfacing visual languages from the past to comment on contemporary socio - political cult
From Derrick Adams's inventive adaptations of politically - charged designs by
black fashion pioneer Patrick Kelly, to Firelei Báez's reimagining of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party to grant
women of color their rightful seat at the table,
artists are resurfacing visual languages
from the past to comment on contemporary socio - political cult
from the past to comment on contemporary socio - political culture.
While the
artist's earlier works focused on classical depictions of the female form, primarily using powerful
black women as the subjects, Tête de Femme more boldly conceptualizes female faces
from collaged geometric cutouts.
An overview of Wiley's prolific career
from 2001 to the present, A New Republic features spectacular portraits of
black men - the
artist's signature works - along with exciting new developments: portraits of
women, monumental sculpture, and «paintings» in stained glass.
... and check out the selection
from Marilyn Minter and Andrianna Campbell's ANGER MANAGEMENT, a pop - up featuring resistant work by John Baldessari,
Black Women Artists for
Black Lives Matter, Zoe Buckman, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Joan Jonas, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Laura Owens, Jack Pierson, Mary Ping, Faith Ringgold, Laurie Simmons, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and many others.
Best known for her vivid, rhinestone - studded pictures of
black women, the
artist is curating an exhibition of work by 14 of today's most critical voices in the visual arts,
from Carrie Mae Weems and Deana Lawson (who designed Blood Orange's most recent album cover) to Hank Willis Thomas (founder of the first
artist - run super PAC).
Replicating Kehinde Wiley's celebrated portraits of
black men and
women from around the world, these open edition plates (and available set of six) feature images
from the
artist's «Economy of Grace» and «World Stage: Lagos and Dakar» series.
It is a sight to see such a wide selection of the
artist's images
from 1946 to 2001, on subjects spanning the arc of 20th century African American history and culture
from slavery, civil rights, and
black power and pride to portraits of African American
women and families.
Among these are the
artist's most famous, landmark paintings — among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third
Woman series (1950 — 53)-- plus in - depth presentations of all his most important series, ranging
from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough
black - and - white compositions of 1948 — 49, and
from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the
artist's return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade.
For the exhibition, the two
artists approach the «White Male on a Pedestal»
from their individual responses as
black women operating in a system of white male supremacy.
«Miami Arts Project,» Miami, FL, January — March, 1998; brochure «I'm Still In Love With You: Visual
Artists and Writers Respond to the 1972 Album by Al Green,»
Women's 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA, February 14 — March 14, 1998 «Postcards
from Black America,» Breda, De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands, 1998; catalogue «Núcleo Historico, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo,» curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, São Paulo, Brazil, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From Pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, 1998 «Heart, Mind, Body, Soul,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «Cut on the Bias: Social Projects of the 90's,» from the Permanent Collection: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1998 «Histories (Re) Membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum,» Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA,
from Black America,» Breda, De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands, 1998; catalogue «Núcleo Historico, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo,» curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, São Paulo, Brazil, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture:
From Pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, 1998 «Heart, Mind, Body, Soul,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «Cut on the Bias: Social Projects of the 90's,» from the Permanent Collection: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1998 «Histories (Re) Membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum,» Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA,
From Pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, 1998 «Heart, Mind, Body, Soul,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «Cut on the Bias: Social Projects of the 90's,»
from the Permanent Collection: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1998 «Histories (Re) Membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum,» Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA,
from the Permanent Collection: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1998 «Histories (Re) Membered: Selections
from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum,» Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA,
from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum,» Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 «100 Years of Sculpture:
From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA,
From pedestal to Social,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1998 «Exterminating Angel,» Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL, 1998 «Hindsight: Selections
from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA,
from the Permanent Collection,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1998 «A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1998
2009 Landscape Revisited, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Posing Beauty, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
Black Is,
Black Ain't, The Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Undercover: Performing and Transforming
Black Female Identities, The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA First Look: An Exhibition of Emerging
Artists from Los Angeles Galleries, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA Remix, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Female Gaze:
Women Looking At
Women, Cheim and Read, New York, NY Crash Proof, The Scholar and Feminist Online, Barnard Center for Research on
Women, online exhibition Elsewhere, Saltworks, Atlanta, GA The Glamour Project, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY CAN & DID — Graphics, Art, and Photography
from the Obama Campaign, Danziger Projects, New York, NY
Entering the recent exhibition «Vanishing Points» at James Cohan Gallery in New York, one was confronted with a large wall text — visible
from the street through the gallery's glass doors — penned by a group of
black women artists in the name of the Black Lives Matter move
black women artists in the name of the
Black Lives Matter move
Black Lives Matter movement.
Perched at one of the magazine booths, I watched a succession of tribes go by: a blur of men in white thobes; Eungie Joo and her crew
from Sharjah (including M + curator Doryun Chong and the
artists Danh Vo, Haegue Yang, and Eric Baudelaire); and the designer Rick Owens surrounded by five
black - clad beauties — men,
women, expertly draped, drifting slow figure eights around Michèle Lamy, Owens's strikingly face - tattooed and arm - bangled partner, and a young lanky soul, totally androgynous, lagging behind in a pink leather ball gown.
January 17, 2013 «Works
from every stage of the pioneering
black woman artist's career» Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Read More