Noah Davis at work, Los Angeles, 2009 Patrick O’Brien-Smith In Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, nearly black night sky. With the figure facing away from the viewer, dressed in a worn red shirt and denim trousers and holding a lantern …
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Lubaina Himid, Le Rodeur: Exchange, 2016. Photo Andy Keate/©Lubaina Himid/Courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and Hollybush Gardens, London A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through February 9). Organized by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, “The Time Is Always …
Builders working on the reconstruction of the historic Great Mosque of al-Nuri, destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Mosul’s old city in Northern Iraq, 2024. Photo ZAID AL-OBEIDI/AFP via Getty Images UNESCO has completed its reconstruction of the Great Mosque of Al‑Nouri, Al-Tahera Church, and Al-Saa’a Convent in Iraq, as part of its …
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Hamishi Farah, Untitled, 2025. Photo Stefan Korte/Courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Arcadia Missa, London Artist Hamishi Farah said on Wednesday that a painting of Joe Chialo, Berlin’s controversial culture senator, never made it on view in Berlin because it was “deemed inappropriate” by the art festival that planned to show it. The …
PARIS, FRANCE – MAY 01: Francois Bayrou arrives a French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron is about to give a political meeting at Grande Halle de La Villette on May 1, 2017 in Paris, France. Emmanuel Macron faces President of the National Front, Marine Le Pen in the final round of the French presidential elections on …
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Titian: Ecce Homo, ca. 1570–75. Courtesy the Pittas Collection Below the surface of an oil painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, experts have identified a previously unknown work by the artist using scientific analysis, the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories at the Cyprus Institute (APAC) announced in a press release for an exhibition of the …
Charles “Teenie” Harris, Woman using a Kodak Brownie 8mm movie camera, 1957 Copyright © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. In a career spanning 40 years as a photojournalist for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s leading Black newspapers, Charles “Teenie” Harris amassed an unrivaled photographic archive. The Smithsonian credits him with creating “one of …
Alice Coltrane, ca. 1978 Courtesy of the John & Alice Coltrane Home. The breathtaking music of Alice Coltrane has the power to stop listeners in their tracks and guide them to another realm of consciousness as she masterfully traverses genres of jazz, gospel, bebop, and classical Indian music, collapsing them together in ethereal, harmonic compositions …
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The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Getty Images A billboard in Montgomery, Alabama, by the artist group For Freedoms was removed after an outcry that spurred city leadership to investigate the piece. The billboard was mounted through For Freedoms, an artist-led organization cofounded by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman that has historically placed politically …
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Yoshitomo Nara’s poster features his painting Midnight Tears (2023). ©Yoshitomo Nara, Courtesy the Yoshitomo Nara Foundation Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara has been enlisted to design a range of merchandise and the promotional poster for FireAid, a benefit concert set to take place at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Los Angeles on January 30. All …
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