Sentences with phrase «other black artists»

DuVernay lauded other black artists from the stage as she accepted her award Monday night, naming writers and directors such as Shonda Rhimes, Gina Prince - Bythewood, Kenya Barris and «Black Panther» Ryan Coogler.
«I'm sorry, but I really believe that if he were a white artist, you wouldn't be able to afford him now; you wouldn't be able to touch him unless you had several million,» said Darrell Walker, the former professional basketball player and coach, who has collected works by Mr. Gilliam, Norman Lewis and other black artists for more than 30 years.
Along with Ligon, Anatsui, Ofili and Thomas, there are a number of other black artists whose works (several with multiple lots) are up for auction across the three major houses, familiar names including Jean Michel - Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Rashid Johnson, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Oscar Murillo, Chris Ofili, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, Kehinde Wiley and Kara Walker.
DuVernay lauded other black artists from the stage as she accepted her award Monday night, naming writers and directors such as Shonda Rhimes, Gina Prince - Bythewood, Kenya Barris and «Black Panther» director Ryan Coogler.
Ofili was joined by three other black artists whose works were acquired for the museum this week, according to Temkin.
One can only hope this exhibit will usher in a new era of shows celebrating the brilliance of so many other Black artists who still haven't gotten their time to shine.
Award - winning rapper Kendrick Lamar's collaborations with other black artists, notably «King's Dead,» «Pray for Me,» and «All The Stars,» ease their ways into dialogue - free scenes to connect plot tissues.
Lubaina Himid talks to Hettie Judah in the New York Times about winning the Turner Prize and encouraging institutions to value other black artists.
Among other black artists in the galleries that day, Glenn Ligon was again texting white America in neon, and Gary Simmons was rendering blackness in a ghostly white.
His innovations felt organic, progressive, and open - ended — not unlike the civil rights changes taking place during the era, which other black artists chose to confront in more explicit ways.
In 1971, when it came to light that the Whitney show didn't involve any black curators (or «black art specialists»)-- a point that the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition had insisted on — Gilliam and 14 other black artists pulled out of the 75 - artist survey in protest.
Edwards, and a handful of other black artists working abstractly, like Edward Clark, Fred Eversley, Alma Thomas, Tom Lloyd, William T. Williams, Jack Whitten, have received recent critical attention in the form of museum exhibitions, elite gallery representation, and now, a deepened art historical context for their work within the wider frame of late modernism.
His figuration needs to be closely related to other black artists from Robert Colescott to Jean - Michel Basquiat, who also made black achievement one of their subjects.
Soon, Williams will revisit his early days in Chicago, when he and other black artists were sussing out the role of art in politics.
Robert Blackburn, managed the print room at the school and took an interest in Whitten, introducing him to other black artists.
In 1976 he co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet (along with two other Black Artists» Group members, Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake), which soon became jazz music's most renowned saxophone quartet.
Posting sales of more than $ 57 million and $ 110 million a pop, Basquiat has achieved levels far beyond any other black artist, living or dead.
The lots included works by a number of other black artists — David Hammons, Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, and Yinka Shonibare.
As Moten points out, he has had to know more about her than she has ever had to know about him, or any other black artist for that matter:
Lewis and other black artists are also missing from iconic photographs of that time, which gives the false impression that only white painters worked in an Abstract Expressionist style.
Although cultural heritage defines the concerns of most of the artists represented in the exhibition Our Stories, other black artists have been preoccupied with mainstream aesthetic issues, experimenting with abstraction and other innovative styles.
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