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“Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from Feb. 16 to May 21, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookMarch 5, 2023 0

How Travel Inspired Betye Saar’s Magical Art

In 1968, Betye Saar embodied her growing interest in ritual and ancestral traditions in “Africa,” one of her first assembles. It’s a small wooden box that hinges open to reveal…Continue Reading →

Wadsworth Jarrell, Detail of "Revolutionary," 1972, screenprint. (Courtesy Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago)
Art Greg CookAugust 14, 2019 0

Wadsworth Jarrell, AfriCOBRA And Creating ‘Art That African People Can Relate To’

“African people are the forerunners, innovators, creators, the hip. African people are my motivation,” Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founders of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), said in…Continue Reading →

Pirkle Jones, "Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally, Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, CA," August 25, 1968. (Courtesy University of California, Santa Cruz)
Art Greg CookMarch 27, 2019 0

Black Panthers 1968: Selections From A Major Photo Archive in San Francisco

“A lot of people tried to talk us out of it,” Pirkle Jones told The New York Times in December 1968 when an exhibition of photos of the Black Panther…Continue Reading →

Dana Chandler's “Fred Hampton’s Door 2," 1975.
Art Greg CookJanuary 21, 2019 0

How Dana Chandler Brought Black Power To Boston Art, Murals And Museums

The April 6, 1970, issue of Time magazine arrived with a portrait of Jessie Jackson on the cover painted by Jacob Lawrence and the headline “Black America 1970.” Inside was…Continue Reading →

Gerald Williams, "Messages," 1970, Acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, The Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2017.8.
Art Greg CookDecember 28, 2018 0

The Original Black Power Mural And A New History Of African American Art From Chicago

In August 1967, a group of 14 African American artists began painting a 60-foot-wide mural on the side of a run-down tavern at the corner of 43rd Street and Langley…Continue Reading →

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