How To Make A Living As An Artist? Lucas Spivey’s Odyssey To Find The Answers
How can you make a living as an artist? That’s the question Lucas Spivey was again asking when he left a job in Washington state in 2016 and moved back…Continue Reading →
James Montford’s ‘Post-Traumatic Slavery Disorder’
“I have post-traumatic slavery disorder. And I suffer from that everyday,” James Montford (Ari) tells a couple students visiting his exhibition “This Is Not My Color” a couple weeks back.…Continue Reading →
To Do March 2 to 10: Drag Storytime, Aviary’s Birthday, Dutch ReBelle, Purim On Ice, Newbury-Winning Novelist Kelly Barnhill, Ryan Walsh’s ‘Astral Weeks,’ Protest Banner Lending Library
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Reenvisioning Black Pride And Identity In The Barkley Hendricks Tribute ‘Legacy Of The Cool’
After Connecticut painter Barkley Hendricks died in April 2017, there was an outpouring of praise on Instagram. Hendricks made his name in the 1960s and ‘70s by painting realist portraits…Continue Reading →
Barbara Morgan’s Pictures Of Modern Dance Pioneers: The ‘Greatest Dance Photographs Ever Made In America’
Barbara Morgan’s photographs of American modern dancers in the 1930s and ‘40s are among the most striking and influential ever made. But she didn’t set out to be a photographer.…Continue Reading →
Rare Exhibit Of Fra Angelico, The Exquisite Renaissance Painter Who Pioneered New Tellings Of Angels, Saints, Demons
Fra Angelico, the 15th century Dominican Catholic friar, “was one of the most revolutionary painters of his moment, in part because of the way he told stories,” says Nathaniel Silver,…Continue Reading →
In ‘Lost Together,’ Allison Cole Paints Her Journey To Connect With Her Autistic Son
The titles of the paintings in Providence artist Allison Cole’s exhibition “Lost Together” in the Reading Room at AS220’s Project Space gallery in Providence through Feb. 24 begin to tell…Continue Reading →
How Poet Anne Sexton And Painter Barbara Swan Reimagined Grimms’ Fairy Tales For the Feminist 1970s
“I was able to do something maybe wilder than I would have on my own,” the Boston artist Barbara Swan would say about her illustrations for Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston poet…Continue Reading →
You’ve Seen ‘Black Panther,’ Now Check Out Our Guide To More Comics With Diverse Visions
The debut of director Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” movie last weekend and its vision of the utopian African nation of Wakanda has sparked black joy around the world. “When I…Continue Reading →
Unraveling The Confederate Flag To Ponder ‘How Long Would It Take Until The Confederacy Didn’t Haunt Us Anymore?’
“What would this [Confederate] flag look like if we took it down to its threads?” Sonya Clark wondered. She had made art about the Confederate (battle) flag before. But the…Continue Reading →